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
Being and Doing Cast
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Character |
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Iain Robertson
He was 2, now 42 years old
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as archive footage |
Being and Doing Crew
| Name |
Department |
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Ken McMullen as Director. He was 35 (now 75) years old
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Directing |
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Ken McMullen as Producer. He was 35 (now 75) years old
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Production |
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Ken McMullen as Screenplay. He was 35 (now 75) years old
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Writing |
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Stuart Brisley as Producer. He was 51 (now 91) years old
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Production |
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Stuart Brisley as Screenplay. He was 51 (now 91) years old
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Writing |
