2012 · documentary
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Directed by Matthew Akers1h 46m2012
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Our read: Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle documentary, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- inventive
- intimate
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“You're curious how stillness, pain, and presence become world-famous art.”
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