Valie Export Movies

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

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

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,"...

"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 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...

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

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

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

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

Judith is a maverick reporter who is also seeking a satisfying relationship with various men. She finds corruption and power-games everywhere.

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...

Breath Text is a powerfully simple performance in which VALIE EXPORT creates tension by breathing compulsively. “she breathes heavily at the...

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

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

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

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

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