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.
In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian...
IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the fir...
A collaboration between filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and performance artist Thomas Pinnock, who performs...
A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of ...
Conceptual visual artist Ján Mančuška died in 2011. However, in his short 39 years of existence, he ...
Art dealer Salvatore Viviano and director Angela Christlieb embark on a search for the lost artist c...
When a gang of suburban teens stumbled across a bunch of abandoned instruments and formed The Flesht...
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world t...
Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual p...
As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, p...
Artist Katinka Simonse, alias Tinkebell, is a controversial, very mediagenic phenomenon. In her univ...
Summer 1991. The last days of the Soviet Empire. Dark clouds gathered over Moscow as the Soviet gove...
How far are you willing to go to enhance your body and your life? Testing a diverse cocktail of ille...
Documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories events, 1983-1984. Meet Stu, the SRL guinea pi...
The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SR...
Alan Kelley's eagerly awaited edit of the largest Survival Research Laboratories event ever. SRL add...
The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes.
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".