Free Downloadable Movie Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)

 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.

Directors:
Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre


Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић, Serbian pronunciation: [marǐːna abrǎːmoʋitɕ]; born November 30, 1946 in Belgrade) is a New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the "grandmother of performance art." Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind.

Cast of Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)
Cast overview:

• Marina Abramovic         ...     Herself
• Ulay     Ulay     ...     Himself
• Klaus Biesenbach         ...     Himself
• David Balliano         ...     Himself (as Davide Balliano)
• Chrissie Iles         ...     Herself
• Arthur Danto         ...     Himself
• David Blaine         ...     himself
• James Franco         ...     Himself

Storyline of Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)
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?'