Valie Export Movies

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...

The body and specifically the "woman's body" is often used as a focus for questions of origin, subject-object relations, political resistance and...

Katja Raganelli’s sole excursion into the realm of avant-garde cinema was this focus on Austrian experimental film axiom Valie Export. This...

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...

The starting point for this film is an eighteenth-century musical dice game attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A sequence of short, precomposed...

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

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

"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....

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

Touch Cinema is a document of VALIE EXPORT's famous street performance, in which the public was invited to touch her inside a curtained box attached...

"The rebellious voice, the split voice. The voice is suture, the voice is seam, the voice is cut, the voice is tear, the voice is my identity, it is...

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...

“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...

Space Seeing - Space Hearing uses sound and image editing, as well as split-screen effects, to create a performance from a motionless body. The work...

A work on the perception of space, where a video of a motionless figure in a room correlates four different camera positions with four different...

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

With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance, externalizes an internal...

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

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

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