Valie Export Movies

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

From the starting point of her admiration for the pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934-2018), the director poses a question: is cinema...

"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...

Set in contemporary Vienna, the film involves a photographer, Anna, who discovers that extraterrestrial beings are colonizing the minds of her fellow...

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

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

"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....

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

Documentary and pseudo-documentary procedures were filmed simultaneously by two cameras from different viewpoints. The material was then divided into...

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were...

A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the "Internationale Situationniste," "Cobra," "Spur,"...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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...

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

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

A journalist runs a strict, scheduled routine to date four different women simultaneously, while keeping them completely separated from one another....

“Writer Elfriede Jelinek has repeatedly made statements about her television-watching habits. She watches a great deal, a wide variety of what...

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...

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

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd...