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.

Originally formed amidst the chaos of the 1970 Kent State anti-Vietnam War protest killings, the not...

Offbeat performance artists The Blue Man Group have finally been captured live on this disc that fea...

A collaboration between filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and performance artist Thomas Pinnock, who performs...

Art dealer Salvatore Viviano and director Angela Christlieb embark on a search for the lost artist c...

The film explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into ever...

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...

As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, p...
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Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual p...
The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and p...

The closed microcosm of garage co-ops, where the socio-economic environment has blended with persona...

A young man in a tram is asking a bit too much from a stranger.

A documentary featuring 30 Argentinian women aged between 4 and 80, sharing their stories of resilie...

The duo made up of musician and actress Julia de Castro and double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez thu...

Documentation of Lygia Pape’s 1968 performance Divisor - reactivated in the city of Villeurbanne (Fr...

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music...

This documentary goes behind the doors at Lego's headquarters, meeting some of the notoriously secre...

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