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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1967
    Orgasmus

    Orgasmus

    Orgasmus

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    One of Valie Export’s first films is a brief and matter-of-fact treatment of lust. The question of whether the man and woman actually had...

    Orgasmus
  • 1967
    Hernals

    Hernals

    Hernals

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    In Hernals documentary and pseudo-documentary procedures were filmed simultaneously by two cameras from different viewpoints. The material was then...

    Hernals
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1973
    Hyperbulie

    Hyperbulie

    Hyperbulie

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    “The narrow passage or dangerous passage is a common motif in both funerary and initiation mythologies. I step inside and move through a...

    Hyperbulie
  • 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
  • 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
    ...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
  • 1997
    Vaginan

    Vaginan

    Vaginan

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    “A medical camera films the vaginal area of performer VALIE EXPORT. It penetrates her body. In the same way as in various installations that...

    Vaginan
  • 1970
    Body Tape

    Body Tape

    Body Tape

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    1: Touching 2: Boxing 3: Feeling 4: Hearing 5: Tasting 6: Pushing 7: Walking

    Body Tape
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1992
    The Unspeakable Speaking

    The Unspeakable Speaking

    The Unspeakable Speaking

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    The focus of this documentary film, originally titled Speaking in Tongues: . The Unspeakable Speaking. Glossolalia among Natives, Christians, as an...

    The Unspeakable Speaking
  • 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