Glittering Misfits

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

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

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...

A series of filmed interviews with Rebecca Horn, performance artist, filmmaker and sculptress whose...

One Meter of Democracy (2010) challenged the endurance of viewers, as well as the courage of the art...

The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that invo...

Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramo...

A filmed burlesque show, staged at the El Rey Theater in Oakland, CA.

The rehearsal of a future play. Through the movement of the body, the protagonists form a structure...

Several burlesque performances from the days burlesque was actually risqué ánd tantalising.

IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the fir...

Through the voice of its founder Marinella Senatore, the video focuses on a few key themes of The Sc...

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who...

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

A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibili...

In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian...

A witch appears in the south of the city, recites a poem, performs a spell and vomits the world.