Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

It is astonishing, more than ever aspiring, how art can be so not intellectual, so not about the mind, complex ideas or aspirations, and yet to not be simplistic or cheap.

It's a cliche, but she is the one who coined it. Weirdly enough, by the second half I actually started to give a fuck. She is cardinally self indulgent, but the film is refreshingly casual and honest about it. She is just the shamanic diva the art world deserves, and secretly needs.

Brilliant story of the legendary artist, not the documentary but the content itself makes it very impressive and touchy

Competent. I felt the summary of the artist's career was too "sketch-y", as in there was not much in depth exploration of her work. The profundity of her performances seemed forced and unconvincing.

I watched this in preparation for the Documentary Now! episode. In many ways, Abramovic's art is so out there that it defies parody, but the documentary made me appreciate the incredible lengths that she had to go to for her performance pieces. Bonus points for the hilarious James Franco diss by a random museum guest.

First I should mention that I'm not part of the target audience as I have little love or understanding for modern art. Second, the documentary doesn't paint a satisfying picture of Marina Abramovic and her work. If you didn't get her before you wouldn't get her after watching it. It's a shame because there is a lot more to explore and illustrate rather than constantly iterating how taxing these hours upon hours of doing nothing are. In my opinion a lot of potential was wasted here.

More interesting as an indictment of a culture sick with pathological self-absorption than what was seemingly intended. I can't imagine feeling a stronger sense of contempt than what I felt for the vapid egomaniacs who cried because a famous artist acknowledged their existence. These are truly broken people, and it was fascinating and infuriating to watch them.

5 Juny 2016 - Pur egocentrisme, aquest personatge no em sembla que mostri cap rastre d'intel·ligència o sentit de l'humor. El documental la va seguint acríticament amb excés de dramatisme i com un gos falder.

Despite moments of interestingness, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that what is going on is a combination of an art industry that now operates largely through celebrity, hype and self-promotion, and a personality dominated by ambition, self-seriousness and a love of attention. The very generic form of documentary storytelling utilised by the filmmakers only serves to reinforce this conclusion. For this viewer, the appeal of a life of self-invention is better represented by Gilbert & George.

The most important movie you will see for quite some time.

Marina is by far one of the most powerful artists in history just because of how potent and emotionally raw her performances are. I felt as though this film beautifully recorded a brief look into her history and truly conveyed the soul behind her art and this MoMA retrospective.

Not sure whether to be moved or feel punked, I was fascinated by this account of performance artist Abramovic's unprecedented and triumphant retrospective at MoMA, during which she sat across from random visitors to the museum and looked into their eyes for as long as they wanted. Certainly one of my fav recent artist/art docs.

The content is truely amazing, the movie itself only fairly good.

Inspiring and amazing, what a powerful woman. Her sitting in that chair was really impressive, I could look at her and the audience all day