Watch seven machine performances FMovies. 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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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.
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Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.
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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...
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Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.
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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...
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Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and energy. This documentary explores the intricate...
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"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent...
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Marepe, an artist from Bahia, produces art with anything he comes across in the town he lives in, Santo Antônio de Jesus. Packs of cigarettes,...
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Balkan Erotic Epic explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into everyday household remedies or explanations...
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Counter-culture video magazine created by Stuart Shapiro, featuring Bill Hicks, Robert Williams, Public Enemy, Butthole Surfers, Survival Research...
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A collaboration between filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and performance artist Thomas Pinnock, who performs his "immigrant folktales" using traditional lore...
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Art dealer Salvatore Viviano and director Angela Christlieb embark on a search for the lost artist collective Gelitin, which since the 1990s has...