Burden

2016 - ENGLISH - MOVIE

Biography Documentary Drama

A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art. Burden is a 2016 English-language Biography Documentary film. Burden was released on 1st November 2019 and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. The film made a box office gross of $0 million.
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  • Jini Score
    7.7/10
  • Critics Score
    85%
  • Rating
    6.9/10
  • Jini Score
    7.7%
  • Critics Score
    85
  • Rating
    6.9
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Release Date05 MAY 2017
Language

English

Genre

Biography , Documentary , Drama

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Burden Reviews and Ratings

Average Review Rating : positive

74.4%

Positive Review Rating : 85%

85%
    • Joshua Rothkopf

      A notorious performance artist who earned comparisons to Evel Knievel gets the shocking documentary he deserves.Immortalized by David Bowies 1977 art rock classic Joe the Lion (Nail me to my car / and Ill tell you who you are), Chris Burden crashed the mainstream like few performance artists do. ( Read More )
    • Tim Grierson

      Try to mimic your subjects adventurousness in your filmmaking approach, and theres a decent chance your documentary will come across as forced or tiresome. ( Read More )
    • Melissa Anderson

      No artist literalized his surname more than Chris Burden (19462015), the Conceptual brinksman who subjected his flesh to spectacular strain in the 1970s, most infamously in Shoot (1971), in which a pal took aim at him, from 15 feet away, with a .22 rifle. ( Read More )
    • J. R. Jones

      This engrossing documentary profile of Los Angeles artist Chris Burden, who died in 2015, focuses mainly on his notorious performance piecesincluding Shoot (1971), in which he videotaped a friend shooting him through the arm at close range with a .22 rifle; TV Hijack (1972), in which he held a knife to the throat of a terrified TV interviewer; and Trans Fixed (1974), in which he was crucified on the back of a Volkswagen. ( Read More )
    • Edward Porter

      Citizen Jane: Battle for the City PG, 93 mins Burden Cert TBC, 88 mins The weeks documentaries are both informative biographical pieces, but Burden has more visual variety, simply because its subject is the artist Chris Burden, who started out doing masochistic performance pieces in the 1970s, and went on to create large, cheerful installations. ( Read More )
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