Marina Abramović

Can Creativity Save the World? (2024)

The final part of the Creativity Trilogy explores existential threats our world is facing. An inspiring film about imagination's power and a hopeful glimpse into the future. ...

Codice Carla (2023)

The Spirits of Maritime Crossing (2023)

As Abramović's spectral odyssey unfolds, she encounters symbolic entities and pays homage to sacred spaces. Through rituals, encounters, and profound teachings, she achieves the transcendence of her soul from its earthly vessel, finding solace at last. Th ...

The Dividers (2023)

Following the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017, Shia LaBeouf and his artist friends launched a live stream art project called 'HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US' that ran for four years, the duration of Trump's presidential term. But what began as a spirited displ ...

Igor Levit: No Fear (2022)

Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven", as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an artist. ...

Fragments of Paradise (2022)

For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chroni ...

7 Deaths of Maria Callas (2022)

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 Callas (1923-77), whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th century ...

Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End (2022)

Thirty years after their separation, performance artists Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe 'Ulay' Laysiepen (1943-2020) agree to meet, for the first time on camera, for a raw and honest conversation about their life, art and legacy. ...

Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious (2022)

We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears when Robert "Bob" Wilson puts minimalistic petrol pumps into a production of Shakespeare's sonnets? Why doe ...

Rico: The Richard DeMarco Story (2021)

Over six decades, Richard Demarco CBE, the Scottish artist and iconic promoter has brought 1000s of artists to the Edinburgh Festival and launched the careers of some of the most famous names in contemporary art. Yet today, Demarco struggles to make ends m ...

Why Are We (Not) Creative? (2021)

In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. He asks artists, activists, and thinkers about things that kill their creativity. ...

512 Hours (2021)

In the summer of 2014, tens of thousands of guests flocked to the Serpentine Gallery in London to experience Marina Abramović's exhibition '512 Hours'. But when it opened, it dawned on everyone that the audience itself was the actual work in the iconic pe ...

La rivoluzione siamo noi (2021)

Between 1967 and 1977 Italian Art experiences a moment of glory on the international art scene. Art comes out from galleries and museums and becomes expression of social and political change. The film describes a period when Italy was the centre of interna ...

Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself (2020)

Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I? ...

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2020)

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture. ...

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling (2020)

Performance artist Marina Abramovic invites Alan Yentob into her home, opens her archive, travels to her birthplace in Belgrade and talks about turning her life into art. ...

Homecoming – Marina Abramović and Her Children (2020)

The occasion is "The Cleaner," a travelling retrospective exhibition of work by Marina Abramović, whose final destination is Belgrade, the artist's hometown. It contemplates her whole life, including dilemmas from her youth in Belgrade, misguided love af ...

Body of Truth (2020)

Four female artists have been politicized by experiences with war, violence and suppression and integrated them into their work, using their most personal tool: their own bodies. ...

DAU. Degeneration (2020)

A secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and human beings to create the perfect person. The KGB general and his aides turn a blind eye to erotic adventures of the director of the Institute, scandalous debauches of pro ...

Teslafy Me (2019)

A vision for a world free of pollution and climate problems, with energy available in abundance - are we ready to take up legacy of ingenious inventor Nikola Tesla? ...

Marina Abramović und die Kunst des Hörens (2019)

Documentary shows how the relentless artist applies her method to the audience at a classical concert. ...

Why Are We Creative? (2018)

A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative? ...

João de Deus: O Silêncio é uma Prece (2018)

The Private Life of the Royal Academy (2018)

Filmed over 5 years, this documentary goes behind the scenes at one of Britain's most remarkable institutions as it celebrates its 250th anniversary. Cameras go behind the scenes at the Royal Academy of Arts with unparalleled access. ...

The story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay (2017)

Legendary couple in performance art – Marina Abramović and Ulay – lived together for 12 years and made pioneering work as a duo. In this extraordinary double interview the artists looks back on their relationship – from their first meeting in 1975 u ...

Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (2017)

As one art scene insider proclaims, the contemporary art world can be summed up as "rich people trying to prove how rich they are," but is that all there is to this billion dollar industry? Well-researched and expertly constructed, Barry Avrich's eye-openi ...

Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman (2017)

Award-winning choreographer Alexander Ekman dives into the subject of creativity by meeting scientists, professors, artists, film directors and choreographers, with the goal of trying to understand every aspect of the phenomenon. ...

Father (2016)

Mourning the death of her father, Giulia is contacted by him from the other dimension. ...

Franca: Chaos and Creation (2016)

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 r ...

InnSæi (2016)

A story of soul searching, science, nature and creativity, InnSæi takes us on a global journey to uncover the art of connecting within today's world of distraction and stress. ...

The Space in Between: Marina Abramović and Brazil (2016)

Marina Abramović travels through Brazil, in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and revealing her creative process. The route is comprised of poignant encounters with healers and sages from the Brazilian count ...

The Ferryman (2016)

In between performance, dance and cerémonies, "The Ferryman" is a choreographic exploration of rituals and animistic roots, a luxurious visualisation of a bewitchment and an exorcism of a man-deer in the borders of the world. ...

Burden (2016)

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

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015)

Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim's life was as swirling as the design of her uncle's museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable. Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict offers ...

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel (2015)

She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual memory until today. The life and work of the Austrian artist Valie Export exemplify a development in art h ...

130919 • A Portrait of Marina Abramovic (2013)

This one-take, 3-D film majestically documents legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic, capturing the breadth of space in infinite detail: the life of an artist, her keen sense of transition, a space's decay, and the ripeness of rebirth. ...

Ulay (2013)

Ulay is a conceptual artist whose photography pushed boundaries, and whose love affair with Marina Abramovic produced some of the best pieces of performance art. Diagnosed with cancer shortly after agreeing to film the documentary, Ulay's illness informs P ...

Mademoiselle C (2013)

A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld. ...

Rhythm 0: A Slide Show (2013)

A slide show of the performance "Rhythm 0" by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic in which she stands impassively and put herself completely in the hands of her audience. ...

Picasso Baby (2013)

Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. ...

Balkan Spirit (2013)

Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit". ...

America Is Not Ready for This (2012)

The tradition of modernism and neo-avant-garde are faced in the project, in which Radziszewski is confronting both – Polish and Western – narratives of art history. Starting from the subversive work of Natalia LL, Radziszewski raises a series of questi ...

Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic (2012)

This hourlong semi-documentary records the musical stage collaboration between director Robert Wilson and veteran performance artist Marina Abramovic. Also included is a wealth of background material about Abramovic's life and earlier works. ...

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012)

Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ...

Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)

Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs. Along the way he encounters friends and fellow artists—including Ken and Flo Jacobs and Yoko Ono—capturing an intimate mosaic o ...

Our City Dreams (2008)

Filmed over the course of two years, Our City Dreams is the story of a woman's struggles and successes as an artist in New York City. Told through five women artists, from youngest to oldest, the film features Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovi ...

Seven Easy Pieces (2007)

For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own, interpreting them as one would a musical score. The project confronted the fact that little documentation exi ...

Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version (2005)

The film explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into everyday household remedies or explanations are juxtaposed with the joys of the female and male sexual forms from which all human life originates. Functioning a ...

La Défaite du rouge-gorge (2001)

Balkan Baroque (1999)

Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the artist's work, the film tries to create a new reality by translating the performances into cinematographic ...

Talking about Similarity (1997)

'Talking about Similarity' took place in Amsterdam, on November 30th, 1976. The performance, which lasted ca. 45 minutes, contains two parts that are very different in form, but content-wise form a whole. Ulay begins, Abramovic takes over. This makes 'Talk ...

4 Performances by Marina Abramovic 1975-1976 (1996)

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 mem ...

The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink (1989)

In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In it, the woman imagines two "alien" lovers walking from end-to-end along the Great Wall to join each other ...

Rest Energy (1980)

Ulay and Abramovic draw a large bow and arrow, one holding each side. The arrowhead is pointing at Abramovic's heart. The slightest movement could be fatal. ...

Test Tube (1979)

Produced by De Appel, Amsterdam, while General Idea was in residence there, Test Tube was conceived as a program for television. Presented under the brand "The Color Bar Lounge," a cocktail bar in the mythical 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion, the program i ...

AAA-AAA (1978)

The video tape shows the half-length portraits of Abramović and her husband Ulay standing opposite each other, looking at each other and producing a long sound with open mouths. ...

Incision (1978)

Ulay is fixed to a wall by a fixed rubber cord, while Marina stands at the limit of Ulay's expansion. ...

Relation in Time (1977)

Marina Abramovic's performance 'Relation in time', with her long time partner Ulay. "We are sitting back to back, tied together by our hair, without any movement for 16 hours. Then the audience came in. We continued sitting for one hour. ...

Breathing In/Breathing Out (1977)

For this performance the two artists blocked their nostrils with cigarette filters and pressed their mouths together, so that one couldn't inhale anything else but the exhalation of the other. As the carbon dioxide filled their lungs, they began to sweat, ...

Imponderabilia (1977)

"Naked we stand opposite each other in the museum entrance. The public entering the museum has to turn sideways to move through the limited space between us. ...

Expansion in Space (1977)

In 'Expansion in Space' (1977, Dokumenta 6, Kassel), Ulay and Abramovic do not collide with each other, as they did in Relation in Space (1976), but with two free-standing pillars twice their individual body weight. ...

Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance (1977)

"Before the eyes of all, at least of those present, the naked and direct exhibitions of the body take place with all its extensions; but the naked eye of the spectators who circle is promptly doubled by the many mechanical or electronic eyes of the photogr ...

Relation in Movement (1977)

Marina: we even use our car in the performance, in '77, for the Paris Biennale in the front of the museum we made this piece called Relation In Movement, which Ulay is driving the car and I had the megaphone out of the window, and I would say the numbers o ...

Light/Dark (1977)

Ulay and Abramović take turns hitting each other in the face, gradually increasing speed and intensity with each blow. This performance is best known for being the inspiration for New Order's "True Faith" music video. ...

Balance Proof (1977)

Ulay and Abramović are standing holding a double-sided mirror between their bodies. ...

Relation in Space (1977)

In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale in Venice, Abramovic/Ulay, both naked, walk towards each other from opposite ends of a room, touching as they pass each other, and then they repeat the mov ...

The Pink Biennal (1976)

Television special of five episodes directed by Alfredo Di Laura dedicated to the exhibition "Attivo. Performance e Dibattiti" curated by Tommaso Trini. ...

Freeing The Body (1976)

Marina Abramović Freeing the Body was performed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, where Abramović began dancing frantically to the sounds of a bongo player. During the early part of the performance, she still has plenty of energy, and she rock ...

Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful (1975)

I brush my hair with a metal brush held in my right hand and simultaneously comb my hair with a metal comb held in my left hand. While so doing, I continuously repeat 'Art must be beautiful', 'Artist must be beautiful', until I have destroyed my hair and f ...

Freeing the Voice (1975)

Serbian artist Marina Abramovic is lying on her back on the floor and screaming until her voice is lost. ...

Freeing the Memory (1975)

'Freeing the Memory' is the second of three significant performances enacted in 1976 in which Marina Abramović attempted to achieve a mental cleaning through the exhaustion of the three main faculties of expression, voice, language and body. In this piece ...

Pretty Good (1973)

Zoran Popovic and his friends in Edinburgh and surrounding area, around July and August of 1973. ...

Marina Abramovic, Era Milivojevic, Nesa Paripovic, Zoran Popovic in Zagreb, February 1972 (1972)

Short 8mm experimental footage film. ...

7 Deaths of Maria Callas (2022)

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 Callas (1923-77), whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th century ...

Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End (2022)

Thirty years after their separation, performance artists Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe 'Ulay' Laysiepen (1943-2020) agree to meet, for the first time on camera, for a raw and honest conversation about their life, art and legacy. ...

The Space in Between: Marina Abramović and Brazil (2016)

Marina Abramović travels through Brazil, in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and revealing her creative process. The route is comprised of poignant encounters with healers and sages from the Brazilian count ...

Stories on Human Rights (2008)

20 short films about human rights. ...

Dangerous Games (2008)

In a small house with oversized furniture, located in a rice field in Asia, some children wearing army clothes and weapons, start playing war, creating between each other two armies and using children's toys, laser weapons, machine guns and helicopters. Sl ...

Seven Easy Pieces (2007)

For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own, interpreting them as one would a musical score. The project confronted the fact that little documentation exi ...

Destricted (2006)

A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality. ...

Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version (2005)

The film explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into everyday household remedies or explanations are juxtaposed with the joys of the female and male sexual forms from which all human life originates. Functioning a ...

Balkan Baroque (1999)

Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the artist's work, the film tries to create a new reality by translating the performances into cinematographic ...

Talking about Similarity (1997)

'Talking about Similarity' took place in Amsterdam, on November 30th, 1976. The performance, which lasted ca. 45 minutes, contains two parts that are very different in form, but content-wise form a whole. Ulay begins, Abramovic takes over. This makes 'Talk ...

The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink (1989)

In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In it, the woman imagines two "alien" lovers walking from end-to-end along the Great Wall to join each other ...

SSS (1989)

Marina Abramovic collaborated with videomaker Charles Atlas on this striking work of autobiographical performance. Abramovic delivers a monologue that traces a concise personal chronology. This brief narrative history, which references her past in the form ...

City of Angels (1983)

Combining video, performance art, documentary, and tableau vivant, this short piece set in what appears to be part of the Ayutthaya Ruins in Bangkok, Thailand, begins with a panoramic shot of various Thai folks dressed in traditional garb and sleeping in t ...

Rest Energy (1980)

Ulay and Abramovic draw a large bow and arrow, one holding each side. The arrowhead is pointing at Abramovic's heart. The slightest movement could be fatal. ...

Kaiserschnitt (1979)

The starting point of Kaiserschnitt is a triangular construction. A horse stands in the centre of a large space, tied to a rope. Ulay and Abramovic are connected to the horse by means of the rope, which runs through two rings fastened to opposite walls. ...

AAA-AAA (1978)

The video tape shows the half-length portraits of Abramović and her husband Ulay standing opposite each other, looking at each other and producing a long sound with open mouths. ...

Incision (1978)

Ulay is fixed to a wall by a fixed rubber cord, while Marina stands at the limit of Ulay's expansion. ...

Relation in Time (1977)

Marina Abramovic's performance 'Relation in time', with her long time partner Ulay. "We are sitting back to back, tied together by our hair, without any movement for 16 hours. Then the audience came in. We continued sitting for one hour. ...

Light / Dark (1977)

Ulay and Abramovic face each other in a kneeling position, and take turns to slap each other hard in the face. Due to the strong light shining onto their faces, they cannot see the slap coming from the dark. ...

Breathing In/Breathing Out (1977)

For this performance the two artists blocked their nostrils with cigarette filters and pressed their mouths together, so that one couldn't inhale anything else but the exhalation of the other. As the carbon dioxide filled their lungs, they began to sweat, ...

Imponderabilia (1977)

"Naked we stand opposite each other in the museum entrance. The public entering the museum has to turn sideways to move through the limited space between us. ...

Expansion in Space (1977)

In 'Expansion in Space' (1977, Dokumenta 6, Kassel), Ulay and Abramovic do not collide with each other, as they did in Relation in Space (1976), but with two free-standing pillars twice their individual body weight. ...

Relation in Movement (1977)

Marina: we even use our car in the performance, in '77, for the Paris Biennale in the front of the museum we made this piece called Relation In Movement, which Ulay is driving the car and I had the megaphone out of the window, and I would say the numbers o ...

Light/Dark (1977)

Ulay and Abramović take turns hitting each other in the face, gradually increasing speed and intensity with each blow. This performance is best known for being the inspiration for New Order's "True Faith" music video. ...

Balance Proof (1977)

Ulay and Abramović are standing holding a double-sided mirror between their bodies. ...

Charged Space (1977)

When the speed and the spinning becomes too much for them, they let go and collapse.. ...

Relation in Space (1977)

In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale in Venice, Abramovic/Ulay, both naked, walk towards each other from opposite ends of a room, touching as they pass each other, and then they repeat the mov ...

Freeing The Body (1976)

Marina Abramović Freeing the Body was performed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, where Abramović began dancing frantically to the sounds of a bongo player. During the early part of the performance, she still has plenty of energy, and she rock ...

Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful (1975)

I brush my hair with a metal brush held in my right hand and simultaneously comb my hair with a metal comb held in my left hand. While so doing, I continuously repeat 'Art must be beautiful', 'Artist must be beautiful', until I have destroyed my hair and f ...

Freeing the Voice (1975)

Serbian artist Marina Abramovic is lying on her back on the floor and screaming until her voice is lost. ...

Freeing the Memory (1975)

'Freeing the Memory' is the second of three significant performances enacted in 1976 in which Marina Abramović attempted to achieve a mental cleaning through the exhaustion of the three main faculties of expression, voice, language and body. In this piece ...