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.
Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey...
Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and ene...
Balkan Erotic Epic explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled...
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...
Art dealer Salvatore Viviano and director Angela Christlieb embark on a search for the lost artist c...
This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namel...
When a gang of suburban teens stumbled across a bunch of abandoned instruments and formed The Flesht...
A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture...
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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...
The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that invo...
The closed microcosm of garage co-ops, where the socio-economic environment has blended with persona...
Artist Katinka Simonse, alias Tinkebell, is a controversial, very mediagenic phenomenon. In her univ...
This documentary goes behind the doors at Lego's headquarters, meeting some of the notoriously secre...
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world t...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music...