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The next film in the HBO Documentary Films summer series is from first-time director Matthew Akers.
The next film in the HBO Documentary Films summer series is from first-time director Matthew Akers.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT follows "the grandmother of performance art" as she prepares for a major retrospective of her work at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2010, highlighted by a new exhibit that is breathtaking in its simplicity: two chairs facing each other, with Abramovic sitting in one and audience members taking turns sitting in the other, gazing into each other's eyes in silence. In true Abramovic style, she remains in the chair for seven and a half hours each day - every day the museum is open for three months - without eating, drinking or moving, a feat of mental and physical endurance that is challenging even for a veteran of such performances.
Marina Abramovic - REST ENERGY, 1980
MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT debuts MONDAY, JULY 2 (9:00-10:45 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
Matthew Akers, is Present in a Live Q&A at HBO Connect on July 3 at 2PM EST (the day after the film's HBO premiere).
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MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT debuts MONDAY, JULY 2 (9:00-10:45 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO
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Posted by: News Editor - July 1, 2012, 11:48 am - PR
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