Movies
- 1988
Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88
Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.8801988HD
“Writer Elfriede Jelinek has repeatedly made statements about her television-watching habits. She watches a great deal, a wide variety of what...
- 1981
The Total Family
The Total Family01981HD
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...
- 1967
Abstract Film No. 1
Abstract Film No. 101967HD
The concept of “expanded” cinema developed by Export and Peter Weibel involved radical experiments with the filmic apparatus and...
- 1973
Man & Woman & Animal
Man & Woman & Animal61973HD
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...
- 1973
Visual Text: Finger Poem
Visual Text: Finger Poem61973HD
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...
- 1969
Tapp and Tastkino
Tapp and Tastkino01969HD
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...
- 1986
The Duality of Nature
The Duality of Nature01986HD
“The Duality of Nature is an experimental video that deals with the 'duality of nature', in other words natural nature and technical 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-Garde01984HD
In her three-part series VALIE EXPORT takes a look at the themes of "staged space - staged time", "real movement - movable reality", and "structural...
- 1971
Facing a Family
Facing a Family61971HD
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...
- 1977
Delta. A Piece
Delta. A Piece01977HD
A drama in the continuum of perturbance in the mixed-gender relationship. Based on shoulder and hand symbolism as historical body language, the...
- 1969
The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption
The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption01969HD
The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory...
- 1986
Lust
Lust01986HD
“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...
- 1978
Adjunct Dislocations II
Adjunct Dislocations II01978HD
Adjunct Dislocations II documents a technically inventive performance. VALIE EXPORT moves along a track with two closed-circuit cameras that are...
- 1972
Interrupted Line
Interrupted Line01972HD
"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....
- 1973
Adjunct Dislocations
Adjunct Dislocations01973HD
“This film deals with exploring one´s surroundings by means of the body, and the exploration of the surrounding body. Not only is...
- 1973
Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions
Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions01973HD
A densely symbolic video performance that became a scandal in 1977 when Staberl, one of Austria’s most infamous right-wing columnists, attacked...
- 1974
Body Politics
Body Politics01974HD
Tethered to one another by a rope, two figures standing on parallel escalators perform five ways of being together—“against each...
- 2007
The Voice as Performance, Act and Body
The Voice as Performance, Act and Body02007HD
A recording of Valie Export’s performance from the 2007 Venice Biennale, filmed with a laryngoscope camera inside her throat.
- 1987
A Perfect Pair
A Perfect Pair51987HD
A Perfect Pair posits the idea that individual consumers are walking billboards for the products they use; product slogans and brand names peeking...
- 1967
Self-Portrait with Head
Self-Portrait with Head01967HD
“In her first film self-portrait, VALIE EXPORT wears an attention-getting curly wig and caresses a woman´s breasts in slow motion, then...