Being and Doing (1984)
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.
Documentary
Cast
- Tibor Hajas — Himself (archive footage)
- Dragoljub 'Raša' Todosijević — Himself (archive footage)
- Iain Robertson — Himself (archive footage)
- Zbigniew Warpechowski — Himself (archive footage)
- Milan Knížák — Himself (archive footage)
- Ewa Partum — Herself (archive footage)
- Jan Mlcoch — Himself (archive footage)
- Sonia Knox — Herself (archive footage)
- Jerzy Beres — Himself (archive footage)
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