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.
"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting stage...
In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale...
Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who...
Artist Katinka Simonse, alias Tinkebell, is a controversial, very mediagenic phenomenon. In her univ...
Marc with a C is the stage name of Orlando indie/DIY singer-songwriter Marc Sirdoreus and was formal...
This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namel...
This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most impor...
IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the fir...
In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian...
Presented without commentary, this film reveals the thinking behind the work of John Baldessari over...
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...
Documents four of Abramovic's solo works, exercises in which her body is the vehicle for a rigorous ...
How far are you willing to go to enhance your body and your life? Testing a diverse cocktail of ille...
This work is an attempt to overcome alienation amidst the fragmented construction reality of everyda...
Offbeat performance artists The Blue Man Group have finally been captured live on this disc that fea...