Valie Export Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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

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

“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...

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 middle line marking of the road is filmed through the windscreen of a moving car simultaneously with its own reflection in the driving mirror....

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

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

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

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 medical camera films the vaginal area of performer VALIE EXPORT. It penetrates her body. In the same way as in various installations that...

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

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

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