Valie Export Movies

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...

Katja Raganelli’s sole excursion into the realm of avant-garde cinema was this focus on Austrian experimental film axiom Valie Export. This...

In her three-part series VALIE EXPORT takes a look at the themes of "staged space - staged time", "real movement - movable reality", and "structural...

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...

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

A drama in the continuum of perturbance in the mixed-gender relationship. Based on shoulder and hand symbolism as historical body language, the...

The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory...

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

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...

"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....

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

“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...

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

“The Duality of Nature is an experimental video that deals with the 'duality of nature', in other words natural nature and technical nature....

"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...

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

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...

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

“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...