Performance Pieces (Performance Pieces)

Release Date:	1990-04-28
Runtime:	10 min
Status:	Released
Genres:	Comedy
Production:	Columbia University School of the Arts

Overview

Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was transferred to 35mm film. Portrays a performance artist, Jack Narwhal, who cut himself into pieces for display in major museums around the world. In this film, he explains his bodiless condition to a belligerent workman who is setting up another exhibit in the gallery.