Performance Art Movies

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.

A documentary about the Kosmos collective in Timisoara: a self-organized group of artists, curators, and musicians who revived a former textile...

In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian labor camp for "hooliganism motivated by...

A poetic tale of a conversation.

Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.

Alan Kelley's eagerly awaited edit of a Survival Research Laboratories show in the Bay Area held on an empty parking lot off Beale Street at the foot...

If This World Were Mine: Poems is an intimate, cinematic short film adaptation of a layered poetic journey—a visual meditation on identity,...

A disparate group of dancers, preferring to express themselves through dance rather than speech, clash with each other and members of the local...

Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.

In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses. (An...

Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original ‘diorama’ building in London

The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. This Is Not a Dream explores the...

An exploration of the Cultural Revolution that depicts both its chaotic later years – through the story of a squad of Red Army guards running...

Marc with a C is the stage name of Orlando indie/DIY singer-songwriter Marc Sirdoreus and was formally a persona enacted on stage for over 20 years....

A selection of Survival Research Laboratories early performances, a must for those interested in how such an enterprise ever got started in the first...

A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her...

The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme rules of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Snow White is banned from...

The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted...