Valie Export Movies

  • 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
  • 1980
    Menschenfrauen

    Menschenfrauen

    Menschenfrauen

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

    Menschenfrauen
  • 1972
    Interrupted Line

    Interrupted Line

    Interrupted Line

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    "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....

    Interrupted Line
  • 1977
    ViennaFilm 1896-1976

    ViennaFilm 1896-1976

    ViennaFilm 1896-1976

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    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...

    ViennaFilm 1896-1976
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1967
    Abstract Film No. 1

    Abstract Film No. 1

    Abstract Film No. 1

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

    Abstract Film No. 1
  • 1986
    The Duality of Nature

    The Duality of Nature

    The Duality of Nature

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    “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
  • 1983
    Syntagma

    Syntagma

    Syntagma

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

    Syntagma
  • 1967
    Hernals

    Hernals

    Hernals

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

    Hernals
  • 1973
    Moving Pictures about Moving People

    Moving Pictures about Moving People

    Moving Pictures about Moving People

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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1973
    Hyperbulie

    Hyperbulie

    Hyperbulie

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

    Hyperbulie
  • 1973
    Breath Text: Love Poem

    Breath Text: Love Poem

    Breath Text: Love Poem

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    Valie Export breathes heavily at the video camera lens while slowly moving her face across it, fogging up the entire space with her lung’s...

    Breath Text: Love Poem
  • 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
  • 1973
    Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions

    Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions

    Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions

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

    Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions
  • 1969
    TAP and TOUCH CINEMA

    TAP and TOUCH CINEMA

    TAP and TOUCH CINEMA

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    The film is ‘shown’ in the dark. But the cinema has shrunk somewhat – only two hands fit inside it. To see (i.e. feel, touch) the...

    TAP and TOUCH CINEMA
  • 1970
    Body Tape

    Body Tape

    Body Tape

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

    Body Tape
  • 1980
    Space Seeing - Space Hearing

    Space Seeing - Space Hearing

    Space Seeing - Space Hearing

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    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