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Burden

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 28m
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Chris Burden in Burden (2016)
Chris Burdern guaranteed his place in art history in 1971 with a period of often dangerous and at times stomach-churning performances. After having himself shot, locked up in a locker for five days, electrocuted, and crucified on the back of a VW bug, Burden reinvented himself as the creator of truly mesmerizing installations and sculptures, from a suspended gigantic flywheel that seemingly spins on its own, to an assemblage of antique streetlights rewired for solar energy and illuminated outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.

  • Directors
    • Richard Dewey
    • Timothy Marrinan
  • Stars
    • Chris Burden
    • Marina Abramovic
    • Vito Acconci
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
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    • Directors
      • Richard Dewey
      • Timothy Marrinan
    • Stars
      • Chris Burden
      • Marina Abramovic
      • Vito Acconci
    • 28User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
    • 72Metascore
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      • 1 nomination

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    Vito Acconci
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    The double side of this man
    Burden After watching the documentary, I find that Chris burden was an innovator of art. He has double side of personality. A crazy part of him likes to challenge the concept of art. He was using his body as the most impactful tools. He viewed himself as an art piece more than a person. So, he could abandon the limitation of being a human in modern society. He challenged moral, psychical pain, social orders, fear, anger and shame. He was so aggressively trying to experiments and exposes those human weakness to everyone. I could feel so much unsecure and threating in his performance arts. In fact, those negative emotion influenced him and brought craziness to him. He took hard drugs and carrying and firing a UZI all the time and viewed those behavior as arts. People around him are afraid of him because of his instability. He did, he finally brutally defeated those art critics and redefined the concepts of arts. Those who are viewed him as a clown were finally silenced because how philosophical and emotional Chris Burden's arts could bring to them. In fact, the other side, He proved he has talents on traditional art forms too. In fact, Chris burden never get out of his control. From the beginning to the end, he was always thinking as a sculptor. His goal was not going to really hurt himself but creating a moment of thinking. All his harmful performance arts were well prepared. When he lost his craziness in his late age, He was starting creating those great installations. Actually his works are all connected.
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    • Release date
      • May 5, 2017 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Belgium
      • Sweden
      • United States
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      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Chris Burden - portret artysty
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $18,440
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $3,231
      • May 7, 2017
    • Gross worldwide
      • $20,437
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      1 hour 28 minutes
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      • Black and White
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      • 1.78 : 1

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