Being and Doing (1984)
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.
Director:
Ken McMullen
Writers:
Ken McMullen, Stuart Brisley.
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Tibor Hajas as Himself (archive footage) |
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Dragoljub 'Raša' Todosijević as Himself (archive footage) |
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Iain Robertson as Himself (archive footage) |
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Zbigniew Warpechowski as Himself (archive footage) |
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Milan Knížák as Himself (archive footage) |
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Ewa Partum as Herself (archive footage) |
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Jan Mlcoch as Himself (archive footage) |
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Sonia Knox as Herself (archive footage) |
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Jerzy Beres as Himself (archive footage) |
| Directing | Ken McMullen | Director |
| Writing | Ken McMullen | Screenplay |
| Writing | Stuart Brisley | Screenplay |
| Production | Stuart Brisley | Producer |
| Production | Ken McMullen | Producer |
| Sound | David Cunningham | Music |
