Marina Abramovic

  • Marina Abramovic & Ulay – The Lovers, The Great Wall (1988-2008)

    Marina AbramovicDocumentaryUlayUSA

    Marina Abramović walks China’s Great Wall only to break up
    June 18, 2022

    Marina Abramovic – The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk (still), 1988/2008, performed for 90 days along The Great Wall of China. 16mm film transferred to two-channel video

    Marina Abramović’s & Ulay’s preparation for the project

    Artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay are known in many parts of the world as the lovers whose relationship ended at the Great Wall of China.Read More »

  • Babette Mangolte & Marina Abramovic – Seven Easy Pieces (2007)

    Marina Abramovic2001-2010Babette MangolteExperimentalPerformanceUSA
    Seven Easy Pieces (2007)
    Seven Easy Pieces (2007)

    About the performing body and how it affects viscerally the people who confronts it, looks at it and participates in the transcendental experience that is its primary affect. The ceremonial and meditative are the common responses to the weeklong series of performances that took place in November 2005 in the Guggenheim Museum in New York. From an art event to a social phenomenon, the seven performances became the talk of the town because it created among the visitors a sense of sublimation like prayer. The film attempts to reveal the mechanisms of this transcendental experience by just showing the performer’s body living the events inscribed in each pieces with details that outline the body fragility, versatility, tenacity and unlimited endurance.
    —Babette MangolteRead More »

  • Francesco Carrozzini – Franca: Chaos and Creation (2016)

    Francesco Carrozzini2011-2020DocumentaryItaly

    Synopsis:
    Director Francesco Carrozzini creates an intimate portrait of his mother, Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue. From the ridiculous to the sublime, her astonishing but often controversial magazine covers have not only broken the rules but have set the high bar for fashion, art and commerce over the past 25 years. From the legendary “Black Issue” and the “Plastic Surgery issue” Sozzani remains deeply committed to exploring subject matter off limits to most in order to shake up the status quo and occasionally redefine the concept of beauty. With interviews from Karl Lagerfeld, Bruce Weber, Baz Luhrmann, Courtney Love and many others, Carrozzini gives us a behind the scenes glimpse into his mother’s creative process as well as peek into her vulnerabilities both past and present. Deeply insightful and often emotional this film is like a love letter from a son to his mother.Read More »

  • Timothy Marrinan & Richard Dewey – Burden (2016)

    2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalRichard DeweyTimothy MarrinanUSA

    A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.Read More »

  • Jonas Mekas – Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)

    2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalJonas MekasUSA

    Quote:
    This film originated from my readings of the One Thousand And One Nights. But unlike the Arabian tales, my stories are all from real life, though at times they too wander into somewhere else, beyond the everyday routine reality.

    There are some twenty-five different stories in my movie. Their protagonists are all my good friends and I myself am an inseparable part of the stories. The storyteller of the Arabian Nights was also part of his or her tales.

    Some of the people in the movie you’ll recognize, some not. The fact that some of them you’ll recognize has no bearing on the stories: after all, we all recognize John Wayne or Annette Bening, but in their stories they are no longer the people we know.Read More »

  • Marina Abramovic & Ulay – Relation Work (1976 – 1979)

    1971-1980ExperimentalMarina AbramovicSerbia and MontenegroUlayVideo Art

    Relation Work, 1976-1979: 14 performances
    Contents: Relation in space — Talking about similarity — Breathing in, breathing out — Imponderabilia — Expansion in space — Relation in movement — Relation in time — Light/Dark — Balance proof — AAA-AAA — Incision — Kaiserschnitt — Charged space — Three.

    Performance art pieces illustrating art in confrontation with life and the individual versus the universal by early performance artists, Ulay and Marina Abramovic. 1996. 148 min.Read More »

  • Marina Abramovic – Four Performances (1975-1976)

    1971-1980ExperimentalMarina AbramovicSerbia and MontenegroVideo Art


    4 Performances by Marina Abramovic, 1975-1976

    Art must be beautiful, Artist must be beautiful.

    Freeing the voice

    Freeing the memory

    Freeing the body.

    Galerie Mike Steiner, Berlin, December, 1976.Read More »

  • Matthew Akers & Jeff Dupre – Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)

    USA2011-2020DocumentaryMatthew Akers and Jeff DuprePerformance

    Synopsis
    This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the world’s premiere museums is, for any living artist, the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina, it is far more – it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: ‘But why is this art?’Read More »

  • Pierre Coulibeuf – Balkan baroque (1999)

    1991-2000DocumentaryExperimentalFrancePierre Coulibeuf

    Synopsis
    The autobiography, both real and imaginary, of Marina Abramovic [1], Body Art artistic. The film composes the life aesthetic of a woman in her era, with a personal history strongly marked by the Yugoslavia of Tito, everyday violence, the experience of physical and psychic limits… The voluntary evocation of the past makes something more secret, more intimate crop up: an unknown evolution that is embodied in fictions felt like authentic fragments of truth. Balkan Baroque jumps from one identity to another, from a true story to an imagination, from a dream to a ritual… – the language of the body often taking over from the word, interrupting it or, on the contrary, stimulating it.Read More »

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