Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits--and at times risking her life in the process--she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Through her and with her, boundaries are crossed, consciousness expanded, and art as we know it is reborn. She is, quite simply, one of the most compelling artists of our time. -- (C) Music Box
Cast
Production
| Director: | Matthew Akers |
| Jeff Dupre (co-director) | |
| Producer: | Nancy Abraham (executive producer) |
| Owsley Brown (co-producer) | |
| Stanley F. Buchthal (executive producer) | |
| Maro Chermayeff (producer) | |
| Jeff Dupre (producer) | |
| Maja Hoffmann (executive producer) | |
| David Koh (executive producer) | |
| Sheila Nevins (executive producer) | |
| Marcus Ricci (associate producer) | |
| Francesca von Habsburg (co-producer) |
Reviews for Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
The A.V. Club
Early in Matthew Akers’ documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, an interviewer apologizes for asking Abramovic questions she must have been asked a hundred times before, but the Serbian-born, sexagenarian New York performance artist tells...
Read review14 Jun 2012
New York Post
Performance artist Marina Abramovic has always been at pains to say that what she does isn’t theater, yet a more flamboyantly theatrical personality would be hard to find. Sixty-five years old, strikingly beautiful, dryly amusing whether posing stark...
Read review14 Jun 2012
Monsters and Critics
Although appealing to narrow slice of art aficionados, “Abramovic’ carries a deeper message, and a warning, to an increasing mechanized and medicated world.
Read review21 Jun 2012
TotalFilm.com
After decades of stigma for her radical, violent work, performance artist Marina Abramović finally achieved mainstream acceptance in 2010, when she sat immobile for three months at New York’s MoMA while the public took turns to face her.
Read review29 Jun 2012
Empire
A little pretentious maybe, but then you've got to wonder at a woman who could sit motionless in a wooden chair, eight hours a day for three months.
External Links
| marinafilm.com | |
| IMDb.com, Inc.: | www.imdb.com/title/tt2073029/ |
| Rotten Tomatoes: | www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marina_abramovic_the_artist_is_present_2012/ |
| Box Office Mojo: | www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marinaabramovic.htm |
Reviews for Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
The A.V. Club
Early in Matthew Akers’ documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, an interviewer apologizes for asking Abramovic questions she must have been asked a hundred times before, but the Serbian-born, sexagenarian New York performance artist tells...
Read review14 Jun 2012
New York Post
Performance artist Marina Abramovic has always been at pains to say that what she does isn’t theater, yet a more flamboyantly theatrical personality would be hard to find. Sixty-five years old, strikingly beautiful, dryly amusing whether posing stark...
Read review14 Jun 2012
Monsters and Critics
Although appealing to narrow slice of art aficionados, “Abramovic’ carries a deeper message, and a warning, to an increasing mechanized and medicated world.
Read review21 Jun 2012
TotalFilm.com
After decades of stigma for her radical, violent work, performance artist Marina Abramović finally achieved mainstream acceptance in 2010, when she sat immobile for three months at New York’s MoMA while the public took turns to face her.
Read review29 Jun 2012
Empire
A little pretentious maybe, but then you've got to wonder at a woman who could sit motionless in a wooden chair, eight hours a day for three months.
Time Out London
This HBO doc draws us into the world of Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic as she prepares for her 2010 show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Abramovic is known for embracing danger and endurance (anyone for running a pin over their cornea?).
Cast
| Marina Abramovic | ... | Herself |
| Ulay | ... | Himself | |
| Klaus Biesenbach | ... | Himself | |
| David Balliano | ... | Himself | |
| Chrissie Iles | ... | Herself | |
| Arthur Danto | ... | Himself | |
| David Blaine | ... | Himself |
| James Franco | ... | Himself |
| Ashton Swinford | ... | MOCA Performer |
Production
| Director: | Matthew Akers |
| Jeff Dupre (co-director) | |
| Producer: | Nancy Abraham (executive producer) |
| Owsley Brown (co-producer) | |
| Stanley F. Buchthal (executive producer) | |
| Maro Chermayeff (producer) | |
| Jeff Dupre (producer) | |
| Maja Hoffmann (executive producer) | |
| David Koh (executive producer) | |
| Sheila Nevins (executive producer) | |
| Marcus Ricci (associate producer) | |
| Francesca von Habsburg (co-producer) | |
| Composer: | Nathan Halpern |
| Cinematographer: | Matthew Akers |
| Editing: | Jim Hession (co-editor) |
| E. Donna Shepherd | |
| Production Management: | Daniel Gilbert (post-production supervisor) |
Companies
| Production Studio: | Show Of Force |
| AVRO Television | |
| Dakota Group |
| Russian Federation | 5 Jul 2012 | |
| Ireland | 6 Jul 2012 | |
| United Kingdom | 6 Jul 2012 | |
| United States | 14 Jun 2012 | |
| Germany | 29 Nov 2012 | |
| France | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| Italy | 16 Jun 2012 | |
| Poland | 5 Oct 2012 | |
| Ukraine | 26 Jul 2012 | |
| Greece | 24 Sep 2012 | |
| Spain | 8 Feb 2013 | |
| Denmark | 28 Mar 2013 | |
| Taiwan | 11 Jan 2013 |
