He is best known for the critically acclaimed documentary Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present,[1] (2012) for which he won a Peabody and Emmy Award.
[5] He was skeptical at first,[6] but Abramovic gave him the keys to her apartment and full access to document her life in the months leading up to her performance at The Museum of Modern Art.
'[8] The film itself is a "mesmerizing cinematic journey inside the world of a radical performance artist who draws no distinction between life and art.
"[9] The New Yorker called the film an "epic in its own right," alluding to the fact that Akers logged some 1400 hours of footage, before editing it down to 105 minutes.
[10] The film offers an inside look at the exhaustive process involved in successfully producing an artistic performance of such a grand scale, and attempts to bring Marina's art to the masses.