Showing 1 - 10 of 16 titles with a criteria of Subject is Performance Artists

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

Color Schemes

An upbeat, ironic look at America’s multicultural society, Color Schemes uses the metaphor of “color wash” to tackle conceptions of racial assimilation.

Women Make Movies | 1989 | 28 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

Eat the Kimono

Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, has spent her life defying her conservative culture's contempt for independence and unconventionality.

Women Make Movies | 1989 | 60 minutes

Fight Hate With Love

Prison-survivor and activist Michael Ta’Bon leads a one-man movement in his community to help other young men avoid the revolving door of the prison system he’s been trapped in since he was a teen.

MediaStorm | 2017 | 79 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

Maguy Marin

Offers remarkable footage of live performances, as well as first person interviews with the choreographer, Maguy Marin, whose work is daring, moving and continues to defy convention.

Distrib Films | 2020 | 105 minutes

Maiko

Maiko Nishino is 32 and at the top of her career as a prima ballerina for the Norwegian National Ballet. When she decides to start a family, Maiko is forced to make decisions that might jeopardize everything she has worked for.

First Run Features | 2015 | 70 minutes

Measures of Distance

Palestinian-born video and performance artist Mona Hatoum explores the renewal of friendship between mother and daughter during a brief family reunion in war-torn Lebanon in 1981.

Women Make Movies | 1988 | 15 minutes

MnM - Queer Futures

An exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community.

GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 15 minutes