Being and Doing (1984)

Being and Doing

1984

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Ken McMullen

Cast

Ewa Partum as archive footage

Iain Robertson as archive footage

Jan Mlcoch as archive footage

Jerzy Beres as archive footage

Milan Knížák as archive footage

Rasa Todosijevic as archive footage

Sonia Knox as archive footage

Tibor Hajas as archive footage