Being and Doing
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.
Top Billed Cast
Tibor Hajas
archive footage
Rasa Todosijevic
archive footage
Iain Robertson
archive footage
Zbigniew Warpechowski
archive footage
Milan Knížák
archive footage
Featured Crew
Stuart Brisley
Screenplay
Ken McMullen
Director
Ken McMullen
Producer
Ken McMullen
Screenplay
David Cunningham
Music
Stuart Brisley
Producer