Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
This documentary helps the audience understand increasingly about Marina Abramović whose passion for art for nearly forty years. She passes through many challenges when she uses her own body to create performances
1924, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
13 January 1977, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
4 April 1973, Brooklyn, New York, USA
30 November 1946, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
24 October 1963, Spencer, Massachusetts, USA
August 29, 2012
...for the 2 1/2 month run of the [MoMA] show, Marina would sit completely still in a chair as visitors cued up to sit across from her and look into her eyes. The effect is incredibly and unexpectedly moving.
August 08, 2012
Briskly edited and brightly shot.
June 15, 2012
The film goes a long way to establish the intellectual seriousness and dedication involved in her ambitious series of art stunts.
August 29, 2012
It demonstrates how cinema can actually make the artist seem present, offering an empathetic fellow consciousness that mirrors one's soul.
September 08, 2013
It's a shame that the people who really need to see Matthew Akers' transfixing debut documentary, Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present, won't go near it.
September 06, 2012
"She's never not performing," says one friend. And the documentary, "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present," confirms it.
July 06, 2012
In place of evenhandedness, the film gives us a full sense of a personality and intelligence so riveting that we begin to comprehend why all those hundreds of thousands lined up at the MoMA.
August 29, 2012
Like any good documentary, ""The Artist Is Present" gives insight into the life and work of a truly talented lady. Her works may not be for all tastes she but obviously has an audience if MoMA is any indication.
July 08, 2012
An exhilarating, elegantly executed film that holds a mirror up to the art world, its protagonists and its devotees, forcing us to question the whole circus.
June 15, 2012
The film's centerpiece is the retrospective devoted to Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art in the spring of 2010.
July 09, 2012
If you have been looking for the natural meeting place of Jafar Panahi's document of life under house arrest This is Not a Film and Justin Bieber's popumentary Never Say Never, look no further.
July 05, 2012
Abramovic is raw and likeable, if mostly inscrutable.
