Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

Nominated for best documentary at the Sundance Film Festival this intimate and moving film follows Marina Abramovic as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her career: a major retrospective of her work and the biggest exhibition of performance art in MoMA’s history. Key to the exhibition is a live event that spanned 7 hours of every day for 3 months: The Artist sitting still, looking into the eyes of hundreds of her audience, one at a time, and witnessed by hundreds of thousands of others, without a break for anything. Abramovic is famed for her talent, for challenging definitions of performance and art, and examining the relationship between the performer and the audience, proximity and distance, body and mind. Her performances challenge, shock, and move some of us to tears. Not to be missed!