Documents four of Abramovic's solo works, exercises in which her body is the vehicle for a rigorous testing of the self — violently brushing her hair and her face, vocalizing until she can no longer breathe, intoning a stream-of-consciousness flow of memories, moving to a drumbeat until she literally drops from exhaustion.
Bernhard, an actress-comedienne whose brassy humor attracts a cult-like following, here offers a sem...
The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and p...
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...
IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the fir...
A video portrait of the legendary late performance artist, fashion designer and nightlife icon Leigh...
In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian...
"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...
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...
Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York underground scene, reveal some of the secrets of th...
Balkan Erotic Epic explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled...
Jamila reads aloud a stack of printed emails written to individuals and organisations delaying, post...
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...
Shot in his garage-studio, the camera records Ader painstakingly hoisting a large brick over his sho...