Valie Export Movies

  • 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
  • 1967
    Orgasmus

    Orgasmus

    Orgasmus

    01967HD

    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
  • 1973
    Visual Text: Finger Poem

    Visual Text: Finger Poem

    Visual Text: Finger Poem

    01973HD

    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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1974
    Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space

    Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space

    Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Adjunct Dislocations

    Adjunct Dislocations

    Adjunct Dislocations

    01973HD

    “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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

    01978HD

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

    Adjunct Dislocations II
  • 1969
    The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption

    The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption

    The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption

    01969HD

    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
  • 1977
    Delta. A Piece

    Delta. A Piece

    Delta. A Piece

    01977HD

    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