Valie Export Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 1977
    Delta. A Piece

    Delta. A Piece

    Delta. A Piece

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    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
  • 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

    01984HD

    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
  • 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

    01974HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1988
    Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88

    Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88

    Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88

    01988HD

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

    Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88
  • 1989
    Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus

    Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus

    Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus

    01989HD

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

    Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus
  • 1967
    Self-Portrait with Head

    Self-Portrait with Head

    Self-Portrait with Head

    01967HD

    “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
    Abstract Film No. 1

    Abstract Film No. 1

    Abstract Film No. 1

    01967HD

    The concept of “expanded” cinema developed by Export and Peter Weibel involved radical experiments with the filmic apparatus and...

    Abstract Film No. 1
  • 1981
    The Total Family

    The Total Family

    The Total Family

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    Baron Childerich III of Bartenbruch considers himself to be a descendant of the Merovingian dynasty and he has drawn up a chart of marriages and...

    The Total Family
  • 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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    The film shows a woman finding pleasure in herself, the whole film is a kind of assertion and affirmation of female sexuality and its independence...

    Man & Woman & Animal
  • 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
  • 1980
    Space Seeing - Space Hearing

    Space Seeing - Space Hearing

    Space Seeing - Space Hearing

    01980HD

    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
  • 1976
    Homo Meter II

    Homo Meter II

    Homo Meter II

    01976HD

    Performance by Valie Export.

    Homo Meter II
  • 1973
    Moving Pictures about Moving People

    Moving Pictures about Moving People

    Moving Pictures about Moving People

    01973HD

    This 16mm film reflects VALIE EXPORT's dialogue with the medium film: "Back then I was occupied with trying to find out how you can use this small...

    Moving Pictures about Moving People
  • 1986
    The Duality of Nature

    The Duality of Nature

    The Duality of Nature

    01986HD

    “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
  • 2007
    Seven Easy Pieces

    Seven Easy Pieces

    Seven Easy Pieces

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    For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own,...

    Seven Easy Pieces
  • 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