Valie Export Movies

  • 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
  • 1983
    Syntagma

    Syntagma

    Syntagma

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

    Syntagma
  • 1981
    Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker

    Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker

    Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker

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

    Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker
  • 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
  • 2010
    Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone

    Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone

    Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone

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

    Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1968
    Touch Cinema

    Touch Cinema

    Touch Cinema

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    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...

    Touch Cinema
  • 2009
    I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head

    I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head

    I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head

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    "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...

    I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1974
    Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut

    Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut

    Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut

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    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...

    Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut
  • 1980
    Space Seeing - Space Hearing

    Space Seeing - Space Hearing

    Space Seeing - Space Hearing

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    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...

    Space Seeing - Space Hearing
  • 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
  • 1973
    ...Remote..... Remote....

    ...Remote..... Remote....

    ...Remote..... Remote....

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

    ...Remote..... Remote....
  • 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
  • 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