Being and Doing
198455m
Documentary
- Runtime
- 55m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- United Kingdom
About
About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different performance artists from England and abroad collected from 1979 to 1983, amongst them: Tibor Hajas (Hungary), Rasa Todosijevic (Yugoslavia), Iain Robertson (Scotland), Zbigniew Warpechowski (Poland), Milan Knizak (Czechoslovakia), Natalia LL (Poland), Ewa Partum (Poland), Jan Mlcoch (Czechoslovakia), Sonia Knox (Northern Ireland), Jerzy Beres (Poland) and Stuart Brisley (England). The film also records the Haxey Hood and Padstow Hobbyhorse folk dances from Lincolnshire and Cornwall respectively.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in United Kingdom.
Details
- Director
- Ken McMullen
- Writing
- Ken McMullen, Stuart Brisley
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Jan 1, 1984
- Studio
- Match Films, Arts Council of Great Britain
Cast
Tibor Hajas
Himself (archive footage)
Dragoljub 'Raša' Todosijević
Himself (archive footage)
Iain Robertson
Himself (archive footage)
Zbigniew Warpechowski
Himself (archive footage)
Milan Knížák
Himself (archive footage)
Ewa Partum
Herself (archive footage)
Jan Mlcoch
Himself (archive footage)
Sonia Knox
Herself (archive footage)
Jerzy Beres
Himself (archive footage)
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