Seven Machine Performances
Jan 09, 1983 | IMDB 0
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A selection of Survival Research Laboratories early performances, a must for those interested in how such an enterprise ever got started in the first place.
Documentary
A selection of Survival Research Laboratories early performances, a must for those interested in how such an enterprise ever got started in the first place.
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Desolation Center
Balkan Baroque
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Maimed Artist
A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain
Virtues Of Negative Fascination
The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
The Pleasures of Uninhibited Excess
Crimewave
Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice
Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour Live
Pretend Not to See Me
I'm Too Sad to Tell You
Broken Fall (Geometric)
Broken Fall (Organic)
Nightfall
O Artista e a Força do Pensamento
This Is Not a Dream
Fall 1
Fall 2
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Desolation Center
IMDB 9.3 | Mar , 2018
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the inspiration for Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Coachella. Interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic, Swans and more.Balkan Baroque
IMDB 5.5 | Nov , 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 images that intensify the fictional context of the film. Abramovic plays herself, but ,appearing in multiple forms, blurs her own identity. Memories and fantasies intermingle with day to day rituals. The chronological narrative often breaks to reflect the interior voyage of the protagonist from the present to the past and back to the present. The result is a visually impressive film. Balkan Baroque had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 1999.Pranks!
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1988
Video accompaniment to the book of the same name released by RE/SEARCH magazine, featuring interviews with Survival Research Lab's Mark Pauline, Joe Coleman, Karen Finley, Boyd Rice, and Frank Discussion. "Five Fabulously Funny Interviews with Fiendishly Flamboyant Pranksters discussing diabolical (and sometimes illegal) deeds. Dazzling deceptions and put-ons from some of the most outrageous artists living today."Maimed Artist
IMDB 0 | Aug , 1984
Documentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research Laboratories. As the Title suggests, Pauline lost most of one hand during experimentation. 'Maimed Artist' explores the often destructive world of such performance art, where there is a fine line between entertainment and insanity.A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1984
Documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories events, 1983-1984. Meet Stu, the SRL guinea pig, and see him training to operate the 4-legged Walking Machine, see 10-barrel shotguns, hear the "Stairway to Hell".Virtues Of Negative Fascination
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1986
Five mechanized performances of Survival Research Laboratories, 1985-1986. 70 min. of endless pursuits, unavoidable captures, and merciless punishments.The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1989
The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted icons of cultural pride in two of Europes more allegedly libertarian democracies.The Pleasures of Uninhibited Excess
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1991
A fast-moving and comprehensive documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories performances 1989-1990. Includes "Illusions of Shameless Abundance ...", ArtSpace Computer-Controlled Installation, "A Carnival of Misplaced Devotion ...", plus details of the 1989 bomb hoax incident.Crimewave
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1996
Alan Kelley's eagerly awaited edit of a Survival Research Laboratories show in the Bay Area held on an empty parking lot off Beale Street at the foot of the Bay Bridge. The show revolves around the many humorous aspects of violent human interaction. Also included in the video are footage from the Wired anniversary party and the SRL Halloween Trick where the V1 was operated in front of the Roxie Theater and several other machines and props operated by SRL members on Minna Street. Includes footage of Mark Pauline being detained by the SFPD for questioning on the device ignited on 16th Street...Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2010
A monument handcrafted by Konstantin Bessmertny is exhibited at Venice Biennale 2007.Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour Live
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 2003
Offbeat performance artists The Blue Man Group have finally been captured live on this disc that features concert footage, three full-length music videos and three songs from Blue Man Group's album, "The Complex." The live footage was filmed during Blue Man Group's successful and widely acclaimed August 2003 rock tour, where they wowed 9,000 fans in two sold-out concerts.Pretend Not to See Me
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2009
Life and art intersect on a spectacular Newfoundland farm where visual artist Colette Urban mounts thirteen art performances in the fields and barns of her property. Resilient, determined, self aware and funny, Colette embraces the transformative power of art as she restages the significant art performances of her thirty-year career. With the camera as her audience she transforms the quotidian into a playful world of the imagination with elaborate costumes and idiosyncratic self invented rituals.I'm Too Sad to Tell You
IMDB 6 | Mar , 1971
This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the title of the work as a caption. The film was initially ten minutes long, and included Ader rubbing his eyes to produce the tears, but was cut down to three and a half minutes. This shorter version captures Ader at his most anguished. His face is framed closely. There is no introduction or conclusion, no reason given and no relief from the anguish that is presented.Broken Fall (Geometric)
IMDB 5 | Feb , 1971
One of a series of ‘falls’ by Bas Jan Ader that he recorded on film, this work was filmed in West Kapelle, Holland in 1970.Broken Fall (Organic)
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1971
Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.Nightfall
IMDB 1 | Mar , 1971
Shot in his garage-studio, the camera records Ader painstakingly hoisting a large brick over his shoulder. His figure is harshly lit by two tangles of light bulbs. He drops the brick, crushing one strand of lights. He again lifts the brick, allowing tension to accrue. The climax inevitable—the brick falls and crushes the second set of lights. Here the film abruptly ends, all illumination extinguished.O Artista e a Força do Pensamento
IMDB 8 | Jun , 2021
THE ARTIST AND THE FORCE OF THOUGHT, reflects the relationship between balance and imbalance within the partiality of movement of the dancer Marcos Abranches. It oscillates the body to wake up from the emptiness and isolation caused by the imbalance. The movement's lack of aesthetics is felt by abandonment and rejection, understanding that relief is in the support of love. Investigating body movement in a world without anguish, without pain, without despair. Search for life. Find in dance the balance of the body and the beauty of the soul.This Is Not a Dream
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2012
The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. This Is Not a Dream explores the legacies of this revolution and its continued impact on contemporary art and performance. Charting a path across four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism, This Is Not a Dream traces the influences of Andy Warhol, John Waters and Jack Smith to the perverted frontiers of YouTube and Chatroulette, taking in subverted talk shows and soap operas, streetwalker fashions and glittery magic penises along the way.Fall 1
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1970
Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.Fall 2
IMDB 6 | Mar , 1970
Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.