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...

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 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 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 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...

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...

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

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

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 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...

A recording of Valie Export’s performance from the 2007 Venice Biennale, filmed with a laryngoscope camera inside her throat.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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