Performance Art Filmes
- 1983

Turtle Dreams
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Turtle Dreams, produced for WGBH-TV, originally aired September 2, 1983. Shot by Ping Chong. Composed by Meredith Monk, performed by her and her...
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- 2007

The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007
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The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain...
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- 2010

One Meter Democracy
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One Meter of Democracy (2010) challenged the endurance of viewers, as well as the courage of the artist. In a quasi-democratic process, He Yunchang...
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- 2023

Petrol
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An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.
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- 1971

Nightfall
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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...
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- 1991

The Pleasures of Uninhibited Excess
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A fast-moving and comprehensive documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories performances 1989-1990. Includes "Illusions of Shameless...
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- 2020

The Sound of Identity
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In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic...
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- 2023

Moving Together
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Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and energy. This documentary explores the intricate...
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- 2022

7 Deaths of Maria Callas
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A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria...
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- 1989

The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
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The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted...
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- 2019

Glittering Misfits
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Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York underground scene, reveal some of the secrets of their provocative and remonstrative forms of...
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- 2009

House of Flesh Mannequins
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A loner artist with a history of abuse meets a beautiful woman who takes an interest in his life and work; leading to a chilling path of tragedy.
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- 1988

A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
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Living in a fictional world all their own, the machines of Survival Research Laboratories act out scenarios of perpetual torment, exasperating...
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- 1989

Fear, Anxiety and Depression
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An unsuccessful playwright faces trials and tribulations as he seeks to find himself in New York City.
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- 2013

Art Girls
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Three women artists from Berlin collaborate on an exhibition sponsored by a biotech firm and end up being the first people to experience the...
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- 1999

All Smiles and Sadness
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McGuire constructs a murky black and white soap-opera world of endless, timeless, and placeless limbo, where the characters talk to each other...
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- 1971

I'm Too Sad to Tell You
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This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the...
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- 2020

Saul & I
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Nina Regan, an established performance artist, launches her much-anticipated exhibition, the first since spending a decade in prison for the killing...
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- 1983

Seven Machine Performances
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A selection of Survival Research Laboratories early performances, a must for those interested in how such an enterprise ever got started in the first...
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- 1971

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