Valie Export Movies

“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 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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

“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...

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

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...

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

"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...

“In her first film self-portrait, VALIE EXPORT wears an attention-getting curly wig and caresses a woman´s breasts in slow motion, then...

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

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

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

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

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...