Valie Export Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

"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...

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

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

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

A Perfect Pair posits the idea that individual consumers are walking billboards for the products they use; product slogans and brand names peeking...

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

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