Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

Matthew Akers

Overview

This profile of performance artist Marina Abramovic discusses the artist's innovative and sometimes controversial take on her art form, which has helped expand the realm of stage art through emotional, provocative, interactive techniques that she's mastered over the course of 40 years.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/16/2012
UPC:	0741360538061
Original Release:	2011
Source:	Music Box Films
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:46:00
Sales rank:	37,697

Special Features

Marina at MoMA; The audience completes the work; Marina: art vs. life; Marina's dresses; Belgrade homecoming; A re-performer's story; Exhibition gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Nathan Halpern

Composer

Technical Credits

Matthew Akers	Director
Maro Chermayeff	Producer
Jeff Dupre	Producer,Co-Director
Maja Hoffmann	Executive Producer
Stanley F. Buchthal	Executive Producer
David Koh	Executive Producer
Sheila Nevins	Executive Producer
Michelle Ferrari	Consultant/advisor

Editorial Reviews

A performance artist whose medium is the human body, Abramović puts on a career retrospective where other artists reperform her controversial works as she gazes across a table into the eyes of patrons, one at a time, for months.

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