Valie Export
Know for: Directing
Born: 1940-05-17
Place of birth: Linz, Austria
Also know as:
Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde (1984)
In her three-part series VALIE EXPORT takes a look at the themes of "staged space - staged time", "real movement - movable reality", and "structural...
Tapp and Tastkino (1969)
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...
Man & Woman & Animal (1973)
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...
...Remote..... Remote.... (1973)
With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance, externalizes an internal...
Adjunct Dislocations (1973)
“This film deals with exploring one´s surroundings by means of the body, and the exploration of the surrounding body. Not only is...
Valie Export - Icon and Rebel (2015)
She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual...
Birth of a Nation (1997)
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Hernals (1967)
In Hernals documentary and pseudo-documentary procedures were filmed simultaneously by two cameras from different viewpoints. The material was then...
The Total Family (1981)
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...
ViennaFilm 1896-1976 (1977)
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...
The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption (1969)
The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory...
Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone (2010)
The starting point for this film is an eighteenth-century musical dice game attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A sequence of short, precomposed...
Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut (1974)
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...
Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space (1980)
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...
Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker (1981)
Katja Raganelli’s sole excursion into the realm of avant-garde cinema was this focus on Austrian experimental film axiom Valie Export. This...
The Unspeakable Speaking (1992)
The focus of this documentary film, originally titled Speaking in Tongues: . The Unspeakable Speaking. Glossolalia among Natives, Christians, as an...
Delta. A Piece (1977)
A drama in the continuum of perturbance in the mixed-gender relationship. Based on shoulder and hand symbolism as historical body language, the...
The Voice as Performance, Act and Body (2007)
A recording of Valie Export’s performance from the 2007 Venice Biennale, filmed with a laryngoscope camera inside her throat.
The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption (1969)
The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory...
The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption (1969)
The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory...
The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption (1969)
The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory...
Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone (2010)
The starting point for this film is an eighteenth-century musical dice game attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A sequence of short, precomposed...
Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone (2010)
The starting point for this film is an eighteenth-century musical dice game attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A sequence of short, precomposed...
Invisible Adversaries (1977)
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of...
The Practice of Love (1985)
Judith is a maverick reporter who is also seeking a satisfying relationship with various men. She finds corruption and power-games everywhere.
Abstract Film No. 1 (1967)
The concept of “expanded” cinema developed by Export and Peter Weibel involved radical experiments with the filmic apparatus and...
Adjunct Dislocations II (1978)
Adjunct Dislocations II documents a technically inventive performance. VALIE EXPORT moves along a track with two closed-circuit cameras that are...
Syntagma (1983)
The body and specifically the "woman's body" is often used as a focus for questions of origin, subject-object relations, political resistance and...
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were...
Menschenfrauen (1980)
Menschenfrauen is a film about relationships and the psychological oppression of women in society. Franz, a journalist, maintains relationships with...
...Remote..... Remote.... (1973)
With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance, externalizes an internal...
Man & Woman & Animal (1973)
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 Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde (1984)
In her three-part series VALIE EXPORT takes a look at the themes of "staged space - staged time", "real movement - movable reality", and "structural...
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were...
Touch Cinema (1968)
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...
Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut (1974)
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...
Facing a Family (1971)
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...
Interrupted Line (1972)
"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....
I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head (2009)
"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...
Lust (1986)
“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...
Self-Portrait with Head (1967)
“In her first film self-portrait, VALIE EXPORT wears an attention-getting curly wig and caresses a woman´s breasts in slow motion, then...
Adjunct Dislocations (1973)
“This film deals with exploring one´s surroundings by means of the body, and the exploration of the surrounding body. Not only is...
Body Tape (1970)
1: Touching 2: Boxing 3: Feeling 4: Hearing 5: Tasting 6: Pushing 7: Walking
Vaginan (1997)
“A medical camera films the vaginal area of performer VALIE EXPORT. It penetrates her body. In the same way as in various installations that...
Tapp and Tastkino (1969)
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...
The Duality of Nature (1986)
“The Duality of Nature is an experimental video that deals with the 'duality of nature', in other words natural nature and technical nature....
Breath Text: Love Poem (1973)
Breath Text is a powerfully simple performance in which VALIE EXPORT creates tension by breathing compulsively. “she breathes heavily at the...
Visual Text: Finger Poem (1973)
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...
Hyperbulie (1973)
“The narrow passage or dangerous passage is a common motif in both funerary and initiation mythologies. I step inside and move through a...
Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88 (1988)
“Writer Elfriede Jelinek has repeatedly made statements about her television-watching habits. She watches a great deal, a wide variety of what...
Seven Easy Pieces (2007)
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,...
A Perfect Pair (1987)
A Perfect Pair posits the idea that individual consumers are walking billboards for the products they use; product slogans and brand names peeking...
Body Politics (1974)
Tethered to one another by a rope, two figures standing on parallel escalators perform five ways of being together—“against each...
Orgasmus (1967)
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...
Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88 (1988)
“Writer Elfriede Jelinek has repeatedly made statements about her television-watching habits. She watches a great deal, a wide variety of what...
Invisible Adversaries (1977)
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of...
Invisible Adversaries (1977)
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of...
Invisible Adversaries (1977)
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of...
The Practice of Love (1985)
Judith is a maverick reporter who is also seeking a satisfying relationship with various men. She finds corruption and power-games everywhere.
Menschenfrauen (1980)
Menschenfrauen is a film about relationships and the psychological oppression of women in society. Franz, a journalist, maintains relationships with...
Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut (1974)
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...
Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space (1980)
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...
Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space (1980)
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...
Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space (1980)
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...
Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions (1973)
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 (1973)
A densely symbolic video performance that became a scandal in 1977 when Staberl, one of Austria’s most infamous right-wing columnists, attacked...