1984
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0h 55m
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Match Films
Arts Council of Great Britain
Arts Council of Great Britain
Being and Doing
Overview
About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different performance artists from England and abroad collected from 1979 to 1983, amongst them: Tibor Hajas (Hungary), Rasa Todosijevic (Yugoslavia), Iain Robertson (Scotland), Zbigniew Warpechowski (Poland), Milan Knizak (Czechoslovakia), Natalia LL (Poland), Ewa Partum (Poland), Jan Mlcoch (Czechoslovakia), Sonia Knox (Northern Ireland), Jerzy Beres (Poland) and Stuart Brisley (England). The film also records the Haxey Hood and Padstow Hobbyhorse folk dances from Lincolnshire and Cornwall respectively.
Key Crew
Screenplay: Stuart Brisley, Ken McMullen
Director: Ken McMullen
Producer: Ken McMullen, Stuart Brisley
