SFIFF55: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

A good documentary about an exceptional performance artist, this portrait focuses on her 2010 MoMA show in which she met the gaze of 750,000 gallery visitors one by one over a period of 3 months.  It was incredibly moving to watch individuals respond to her peculiarly open and vulnerable face with their own expressions of gratitude, curiosity, and pain.  Clips and interviews reveal her to be an extraordinary and charismatic personality whose creative feats of endurance challenge art world norms, audience passivity, and the limits of her own spiritual commitment to radical living and loving.