
Balkan Baroque 1999
"Marina Abramovic Performance"
Overview
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the artist's work, the film tries to create a new reality by translating the performances into cinematographic images that intensify the fictional context of the film. Abramovic plays herself, but ,appearing in multiple forms, blurs her own identity. Memories and fantasies intermingle with day to day rituals. The chronological narrative often breaks to
Director: Pierre Coulibeuf
Cast

Marina AbramoviΔ
Self
Paolo Canevari
Self

Ulay
Self

Michel Butor
Self
Pedro Canevari
Self
Alexander Godschalk
Self
Sean Kelly
Self