Being and doing

In this collaboration between one of Britain’s leading performance artists, Stuart Brisley and a major independent film-maker, records of Performance Art have been extensively manipulated; the images slowed down, fragmented, and details isolated to construct a filmic ‘memory’ of the events.

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Credits

director

Ken McMullen

production company

Match Films

Duration

01:00:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1984

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

016943

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Performance art

Experimental

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain

People → Brisley, Stuart G

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1984

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