Ahtila, Salla Tykka and other younger Finnish artists all use these media to blur distinctions between acting and performance, documentary and fiction.
Led by producer/editor Jean Dunoyer '87, MVP taped lectures, rehearsals, interviews with the artists, and the final live performance to craft a 28-minute performance documentary film.
Liza Zapol is teaching Oral History Methods at the New School for Drama this fall, a synthesis of her performance, documentary production, and oral history interests.
A visually dazzling performance documentary, shot in 3-D, about the choreographer Pina Bausch and the dance company she created, it has dialogue in nine languages, the result of Mr. Wenders's decision to let dancers speak in their native languages.
In 2013, MVP received their first Emmy nomination (and win) for a performance documentary piece, "Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music," crafted with the MIT Wind Ensemble and featuring an original composition by Jamshied Sharifi '83.
The show features paintings, sculptures, mixed-media works, photographs, posters, works on paper, performance documentaries, videos and archival material by Laurie Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Audrey Flack, Alice Neel, Yoko Ono, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Shapiro, Joan Semmel, Nancy Spero and Faith Wilding, among others.
As Thom Powers, a documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival and elsewhere, explained, "Performance documentaries have always been box office leaders — for a long time, 'Woodstock' was the highest-grossing documentary".
But Clarke, who expanded the notion of performance documentaries with her dance-centered films of the nineteen-fifties and the 1967 feature "Portrait of Jason," here relies on the pliability of the video image to transform Chaikin's performance by means of simple but highly expressive effects.
In the 1990's long-form music videos -- performance documentaries and the like -- had their day on videocassette before being buried in an avalanche of heavily promoted movies and further done in by a failure to connect a visual music product with audio CD's.
Performance, documentaries and music entertainment formats play across our TV and digital channels.
Another "Great Performances" documentary, "Making 'The Misfits' " (2002), about Clark Gable and Monroe's last movie, sparked her interest in Monroe.
