Shot in his garage-studio, the camera records Ader painstakingly hoisting a large brick over his shoulder. His figure is harshly lit by two tangles of light bulbs. He drops the brick, crushing one strand of lights. He again lifts the brick, allowing tension to accrue. The climax inevitable—the brick falls and crushes the second set of lights. Here the film abruptly ends, all illumination extinguished.
After the sunset, a man wonders between the edges of the highways gathering edible roadkill animals.
Bernhard, an actress-comedienne whose brassy humor attracts a cult-like following, here offers a sem...
Gabriel decides to go back to his home town. In the way, he meets "El Signo del Caos".
Documents four of Abramovic's solo works, exercises in which her body is the vehicle for a rigorous ...
Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey...
This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of ...
One of a series of ‘falls’ by Bas Jan Ader that he recorded on film, this work was filmed in West Ka...
Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river be...
"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...
A documentary edited from ORLAN's seventh surgery in the The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN series wh...
Offbeat performance artists The Blue Man Group have finally been captured live on this disc that fea...
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting stage...
A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of ...
In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovan...
Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and ene...
Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy d...
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world t...
Jamila reads aloud a stack of printed emails written to individuals and organisations delaying, post...
Art dealer Salvatore Viviano and director Angela Christlieb embark on a search for the lost artist c...