Movies: Ulay
- 2012
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012)
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Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York....
- 1977
Relation in Time (1977)
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Marina Abramovic's performance 'Relation in time', with her long time partner Ulay. "We are sitting back to back, tied together by our hair, without any movement for 16 hours. Then the audience came in. We continued sitting for one hour."...
- 2022
Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End (2022)
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Thirty years after their separation, performance artists Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe 'Ulay' Laysiepen (1943-2020) agree to meet, for the first time on camera, for a raw and honest conversation about their life, art and legacy....
- 1976
There Is a Criminal Touch to Art (1976)
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A documentation of the live Action Ulay performed in Berlin in 1976. It shows step by step his arranged "art theft" of Carl Spitzweg's painting "The Poor Poet" from the Neue Nationalgalerie and his reception in commentaries and reactions from the pre...
- 2010
The Way Between Two Points (2010)
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El camino entre dos puntos (The way between two points) investigates Patagonia’s tainted nature. Here, where throughout the 20th century ever enhanced methods of oil recovery, have transformed an amorphous, ambivalent and hardly populated landscape i...
- 1977
Relation in Movement (1977)
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Marina: we even use our car in the performance, in '77, for the Paris Biennale in the front of the museum we made this piece called Relation In Movement, which Ulay is driving the car and I had the megaphone out of the window, and I would say the num...
- 2017
How I Stole a Painting (2017)
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The story of one of the most radical performances in art history told by German artist Ulay, who in 1976 decided to steal Hitler's favorite painting from Berlin's national museum and hang it in the home of a Turkish immigrant family. "This particular...
- 1975
Freeing the Memory (1975)
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‘Freeing the Memory’ is the second of three significant performances enacted in 1976 in which Marina Abramović attempted to achieve a mental cleaning through the exhaustion of the three main faculties of expression, voice, language and body. In this ...
- 1999
Balkan Baroque (1999)
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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 cinematog...
- 1978
Three (1978)
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Ulay and Abramovic were lying flat on their stomach in one room together with the animal, with which they were trying to make contact via an inventive system. By using a circuit made of wire, and blowing into a bottle or plucking the wire with their ...
- 2017
The story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay (2017)
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Legendary couple in performance art – Marina Abramović and Ulay – lived together for 12 years and made pioneering work as a duo. In this extraordinary double interview the artists looks back on their relationship – from their first meeting in 1975 un...
- 1977
Imponderabilia (1977)
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"Naked we stand opposite each other in the museum entrance. The public entering the museum has to turn sideways to move through the limited space between us. Everyone wanting to get past has to choose which one of us to face" – Marina Abramovich...
- 1989
The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink (1989)
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In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In it, the woman imagines two "alien" lovers walking from end-to-end along the Great Wall to join each ...
- 1977
Light / Dark (1977)
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Ulay and Abramovic face each other in a kneeling position, and take turns to slap each other hard in the face. Due to the strong light shining onto their faces, they cannot see the slap coming from the dark....
- 1976
The Pink Biennal (1976)
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Television special of five episodes directed by Alfredo Di Laura dedicated to the exhibition "Attivo. Performance e Dibattiti" curated by Tommaso Trini....
- 1980
Rest Energy (1980)
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Ulay and Abramovic draw a large bow and arrow, one holding each side. The arrowhead is pointing at Abramovic's heart. The slightest movement could be fatal. Microphones on their clothes pick up their quickening heart beats and Ulay's irregular breath...
- 1977
Balance Proof (1977)
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Ulay and Abramović are standing holding a double-sided mirror between their bodies....
- 2013
Ulay (2013)
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Ulay is a conceptual artist whose photography pushed boundaries, and whose love affair with Marina Abramovic produced some of the best pieces of performance art. Diagnosed with cancer shortly after agreeing to film the documentary, Ulay's illness inf...
- 1977
Expansion in Space (1977)
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In 'Expansion in Space' (1977, Dokumenta 6, Kassel), Ulay and Abramovic do not collide with each other, as they did in Relation in Space (1976), but with two free-standing pillars twice their individual body weight. Their goal is to make the pillars ...
- 1979
Kaiserschnitt (1979)
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The starting point of Kaiserschnitt is a triangular construction. A horse stands in the centre of a large space, tied to a rope. Ulay and Abramovic are connected to the horse by means of the rope, which runs through two rings fastened to opposite wal...