Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

Posted On: June 16, 2012
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Category: Documentary
All Genres: Documentary, Biography, History
Release Year: 2012
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Runtime: 106
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Director: Matthew Akers
Sound: Stereo
Produced by: Nancy Abraham – executive producer
Owsley Brown – co-producer
Stanley F. Buchthal – executive producer
Maro Chermayeff – producer
Jeff Dupre – producer
Maja Hoffmann – executive producer
David Koh – executive producer
Sheila Nevins – executive producer
Marcus Ricci – associate producer
Francesca von Habsburg – co-producer

Cast: Marina Abramovic – Herself
Ulay – Himself
Klaus Biesenbach – Himself
David Balliano – Himself (as Davide Balliano)
Chrissie Iles – Herself
Arthur Danto – Himself
David Blaine – Himself
James Franco – Himself

Music: Nathan Halpern
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Plot Outline:

A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.


Plot: This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the world's premiere museums is, for any living artist, the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina, it is far more – it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: 'But why is this art?'