1. Athens Rising: The Sicyon Project: Volume One
Featuring dozens of performances from the living rooms, backyards, and unconventional venues throughout Athens, GA, the first Athens Rising film takes a deep look at music, dance, food, stand-up comedy, strange theater, visual art, and the origins of AthFest.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
2. Pretend Not to See Me
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.
3. Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. Peter Gabriel - Live In Athens 1987
In October 1987 after many months on the road, it was in the elevated surroundings of the hillside open-air theatre at Lycabettus overlooking Athens that the So tour came to a climactic close. The three nights were filmed in what was the first-ever Peter Gabriel concert to be committed to film.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
5. By Rook Or By Left Hook
In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and boxing was in fact an art performance calling for more balance in a world of extremes, and the audience reaction was so electric that it inspired Rubingh to push it as a real sport. Rubingh’s methodical ability to achieve balance in the ring is put to the test outside of it when impulsive British TV Producer Tim Woolgar takes up the sport and his opposing vision for success creates a rift between them, endangering chessboxing’s future.
6. Next Big Thing: the 2 Skinnee J's Farewell Show
The dramatic and fantastic farewell concert of the cult rap/rock group 2 Skinnee J's, intertwined with interviews and sketch comedy with the band.
7. Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo
"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa through another stage of transformation – my own irretrievable self of some 34 years ago is now also part of the subject I first saw the ‘actual’ ‘Mona Lisa’ when I was about thirteen. Of course I had seen dozens of reproductions in books and postcards by then and the popular mythology of the enigmatic smile was already well engrained in my mind. My strongest impression, as I recall, was how small and unsurprising it was – a heavily protected cultural icon – no longer really a picture – and I was much more excited by the painting of the distant landscape than by the face. My own ‘version’ of ‘la Giaconda’ was never an homage, nor like Marcel Duchamp’s ‘L.H.O.O.Q’, an attack on its cultural power. Instead it came from a fascination with change and transformation – maybe also with arbitrary appropriation." Malcolm Le Grice
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
8. DIVISOR / VILLEURBANNE (DIVISOR / VILLEURBANNE)
Documentation of Lygia Pape’s 1968 performance Divisor - reactivated in the city of Villeurbanne in October 2014. Commissioned by Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
9. Balkan Baroque (Balkan baroque)
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.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
10. Rhythm and Sound (Ритам и звук)
National folk dances performed by "Tanec" folk dancers) from Skopje.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
11. Diorama
A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original ‘diorama’ building in London
12. Ellie Goulding: LIVE at the Troubadour
Ellie Goulding: LIVE at the Troubadour - Official HD Director's Cut
13. BTS: Permission to Dance on Stage - LA (BTS: PERMISSION TO DANCE 온 스테이지 – LA)
Purple colors the city of Los Angeles, as BTS brings their "Permission to Dance" concert to SoFi Stadium for the first time in two years. In a stadium radiating anticipation and cheer, splendid performances from "On" to "Permission to Dance" glorify the stage that now comes to life on screen. Be united once again by the power of music.
It has an average vote of 8.9 on TMDB.
14. Change Nothing (Ne change rien)
A short film showing a rehearsal and live performance by Jeanne Balibar. Costa would go on to make a feature-length documentary with the same title and subject matter in 2009.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Lila Downs - Balas y Chocolate (Lila Downs - Balas y Chocolate)
(Lila Downs - Balas y Chocolate)
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
16. Upaj: Improvise
This is the story of an unlikely friendship. 68 year old Kathak Master Pandit Das and 32 year old tap star Jason Samuels Smith come together in a unique East-meets-West dance collaboration that tours through India: ‘India Jazz Suites.’ As we follow their journey, we learn about their struggles to preserve their traditional heritage in today’s pop culture world.
17. toe: DOKU-EN-KAI
At the twenty-year apex of their career, the Japanese quartet add another captivating live release to their extensive catalog. Shot ‘in the round’ at le Poisson Rouge in NYC, DOKU-EN-KAI delivers the band completely absorbed by their element in a kinetic, impassioned and frenzied set that brings toe's renown and allure into sharp, unmistakable focus.
18. Michael Jackson: Live in Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour
Michael Jackson's Dangerous Tour Live in Bucharest. Set-List: 1. Intro / 2. Jam / 3. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' / 4. Human Nature / 5. Smooth Criminal / 6. I Just Can't Stop Loving You feat. Siedah Garrett / 7. She's Out Of My Life / 8. I Want You Back/The Love You Save / 9. I'll Be There / 10. Thriller / 11. Billie Jean / 12. Workin' Day And Night / 13. Beat It / 14. Will You Be There / 15. Black Or White / 16. Heal The World / 17. Man In The Mirror / 18. Credits.
It has an average vote of 8.6 on TMDB.
19. BLACKPINK: 2018 Tour 'In Your Area' Seoul (BLACKPINK: 2018 Tour 'In Your Area' Seoul)
Recorded during their 2018 world tour, which features songs spanning their three EPs and solo acts from every member of the multi million selling group.
It has an average vote of 8.7 on TMDB.
20. Ariana Grande at the BBC
Davina McCall chats to Ariana Grande in this musical extravaganza. Ariana performs songs from her latest album Sweetener and some of her biggest hits accompanied by her band and an all-female orchestra.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
