Movies

  • 1988
    Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88

    Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88

    Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88

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    “Writer Elfriede Jelinek has repeatedly made statements about her television-watching habits. She watches a great deal, a wide variety of what...

    Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88
  • 1981
    The Total Family

    The Total Family

    The Total Family

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    Baron Childerich III of Bartenbruch considers himself to be a descendant of the Merovingian dynasty and he has drawn up a chart of marriages and...

    The Total Family
  • 1967
    Abstract Film No. 1

    Abstract Film No. 1

    Abstract Film No. 1

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    The concept of “expanded” cinema developed by Export and Peter Weibel involved radical experiments with the filmic apparatus and...

    Abstract Film No. 1
  • 1973
    Man & Woman & Animal

    Man & Woman & Animal

    Man & Woman & Animal

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    Man & Woman & Animal shows a woman finding pleasure in herself, the whole film is a kind of assertion and affirmation of female sexuality and its...

    Man & Woman & Animal
  • 1973
    Visual Text: Finger Poem

    Visual Text: Finger Poem

    Visual Text: Finger Poem

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    Second version of the video-poem "Visual Text: Finger Poem" (1968), by Valie Export, conceived after the eponymous photo poem from 1968: "I say what...

    Visual Text: Finger Poem
  • 1969
    Tapp and Tastkino

    Tapp and Tastkino

    Tapp and Tastkino

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    The film is ‘shown’ in the dark. But the cinema has shrunk somewhat – only two hands fit inside it. To see (i.e. feel, touch) the...

    Tapp and Tastkino
  • 1986
    The Duality of Nature

    The Duality of Nature

    The Duality of Nature

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    “The Duality of Nature is an experimental video that deals with the 'duality of nature', in other words natural nature and technical nature....

    The Duality of Nature
  • 1984
    The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde

    The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde

    The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde

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    In her three-part series VALIE EXPORT takes a look at the themes of "staged space - staged time", "real movement - movable reality", and "structural...

    The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde
  • 1971
    Facing a Family

    Facing a Family

    Facing a Family

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    A family is observed watching television. The viewer becomes the object of the family's gaze, as much as the family is the object of the viewer's...

    Facing a Family
  • 1977
    Delta. A Piece

    Delta. A Piece

    Delta. A Piece

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    A drama in the continuum of perturbance in the mixed-gender relationship. Based on shoulder and hand symbolism as historical body language, the...

    Delta. A Piece
  • 1969
    The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption

    The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption

    The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption

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    The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory...

    The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption
  • 1986
    Lust

    Lust

    Lust

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    “This video film shows indecency in its modern form. While peddling naked female flesh was considered indecent in the past, we can see by the...

    Lust
  • 1978
    Adjunct Dislocations II

    Adjunct Dislocations II

    Adjunct Dislocations II

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    Adjunct Dislocations II documents a technically inventive performance. VALIE EXPORT moves along a track with two closed-circuit cameras that are...

    Adjunct Dislocations II
  • 1972
    Interrupted Line

    Interrupted Line

    Interrupted Line

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    "The middle line marking of the road is filmed through the windscreen of a moving car simultaneously with its own reflection in the driving mirror....

    Interrupted Line
  • 1973
    Adjunct Dislocations

    Adjunct Dislocations

    Adjunct Dislocations

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    “This film deals with exploring one´s surroundings by means of the body, and the exploration of the surrounding body. Not only is...

    Adjunct Dislocations
  • 1973
    Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions

    Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions

    Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions

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    A densely symbolic video performance that became a scandal in 1977 when Staberl, one of Austria’s most infamous right-wing columnists, attacked...

    Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions
  • 1974
    Body Politics

    Body Politics

    Body Politics

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    Tethered to one another by a rope, two figures standing on parallel escalators perform five ways of being together—“against each...

    Body Politics
  • 2007
    The Voice as Performance, Act and Body

    The Voice as Performance, Act and Body

    The Voice as Performance, Act and Body

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    A recording of Valie Export’s performance from the 2007 Venice Biennale, filmed with a laryngoscope camera inside her throat.

    The Voice as Performance, Act and Body
  • 1987
    A Perfect Pair

    A Perfect Pair

    A Perfect Pair

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    A Perfect Pair posits the idea that individual consumers are walking billboards for the products they use; product slogans and brand names peeking...

    A Perfect Pair
  • 1967
    Self-Portrait with Head

    Self-Portrait with Head

    Self-Portrait with Head

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    “In her first film self-portrait, VALIE EXPORT wears an attention-getting curly wig and caresses a woman´s breasts in slow motion, then...

    Self-Portrait with Head