Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 24 titles with a criteria of Subject is Performance Art
The Amazing Amy
Using humor and a love of fantasy, "The Amazing Amy" Harlib connects with audiences through performing strenuous yoga-based contortion acts in New York City. But behind the showmanship lives an incredibly lonely human being.
MediaStorm | 2011 | 13 minutes
Anne Clark – I’ll Walk Out Into Tomorrow
The film chronicles the work of the English poet and spoken word-artist Anne Clark. Shaped by punk she pioneered electronic music with her pre-techno classics "Sleeper In Metropolis" and "Our Darkness" and hugely impacted generations of musicians.
Deckert Distribution | 2017 | 81 minutes
Between the Lines
BETWEEN THE LINES offers rare interviews with over 15 major Asian-Pacific American women poets.
Women Make Movies | 2001 | 60 minutes
The Clockmakers
An experimental animated trip into a mysterious clockwork world.
National Film Board of Canada | 2013 | 4 minutes
CMYK
An unrestrained animated riot of color and energy built on a multitude of CMYK symbols, the codes used in four-color process printing.
National Film Board of Canada | 2011 | 7 minutes
Coda
Using advanced digital technologies, this short animation offers a new vision of dance in cinema.
National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 11 minutes
Crutch
Chronicles the gravity defying life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, breakdancer and skate punk—on crutches.
Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 96 minutes
Lemebel
Writer, artist and pioneer of the queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up Chilean society during Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Icarus Films | 2020 | 96 minutes
Man for a Day
Performance artist and drag king Diane Torr leads a workshop in which women develop male characters.
First Hand Films | 2012 | 59 minutes
My Village in Nunavik
Bobby Kenuajuak's tender portrayal the village where he grew up, and the elements that forge the character of his people: their history, the great open spaces and their unflagging humor.
National Film Board of Canada | 2000 | 47 minutes