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Valie Export, born Waltraud Lehner, is an Austrian artist. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts.
Total trailers found: 47
18 May 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 memory until today.
10 January 1980
Menschenfrauen is a film about relationships and the psychological oppression of women in society. Franz, a journalist, maintains relationships with four women.
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
15 February 1985
Judith is a maverick reporter who is also seeking a satisfying relationship with various men. She finds corruption and power-games everywhere.
01 January 1973
Breath Text is a powerfully simple performance in which VALIE EXPORT creates tension by breathing compulsively.
01 January 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 examples of today´s star athletes that skin full of advertising sells better.
15 May 1978
Adjunct Dislocations II documents a technically inventive performance. VALIE EXPORT moves along a track with two closed-circuit cameras that are facing different directions and are focused upon patterned screens.
01 January 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 "image of Vienna" such as that found in the traditional "Vienna Film" by juxtaposing documentary footage, newly shot material and subjective sequences created by various artists.
01 January 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 not body or spirit, it is not language or image, it is sign, it is a sign of the images, it is a sign of sensuality.
04 December 1992
The focus of this documentary film, originally titled Speaking in Tongues: . The Unspeakable Speaking.
14 November 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 film", a genre which no longer exists on public-service television.
01 January 1967
The concept of “expanded” cinema developed by Export and Peter Weibel involved radical experiments with the filmic apparatus and materialist investigations of the production of illusion.
01 January 1986
“The Duality of Nature is an experimental video that deals with the 'duality of nature', in other words natural nature and technical nature.
01 September 2007
A recording of Valie Export’s performance from the 2007 Venice Biennale, filmed with a laryngoscope camera inside her throat.
01 January 1970
1: Touching 2: Boxing 3: Feeling 4: Hearing 5: Tasting 6: Pushing 7: Walking
01 January 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 sexual intercourse and who was responsible for the woman´s orgasm remains open.
05 October 2010
The starting point for this film is an eighteenth-century musical dice game attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
01 January 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 investigate the origin of the voice through filming of the glottis, the vagina´s interior is made visible here for the purpose of demonstrating what happens inside the body.
01 January 1974
Tethered to one another by a rope, two figures standing on parallel escalators perform five ways of being together—“against each other,” “with each other,” “to each other,” “for each other,” and “each other”—challenging expectations of how people can and should coexist in public space.
01 January 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 gaze.
15 February 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, interpreting them as one would a musical score.
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
27 February 2026
From the starting point of her admiration for the pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934-2018), the director poses a question: is cinema made by women really tougher, more violent? Seeking answers, she talks to great contemporary filmmakers like Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, Alice Diop, Céline Sciamma, Ana Lily Amirpour, and Monika Treut, among others.
07 September 1973
With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance, externalizes an internal state.
16 October 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 adoptions which show that he is his own father, grandfather, father-in-law, and son-in-law.
19 April 1986
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride).
31 December 1981
Katja Raganelli’s sole excursion into the realm of avant-garde cinema was this focus on Austrian experimental film axiom Valie Export.
01 January 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 is shown in showing what is said" (freely adapted from Martin Heidegger).
31 December 1973
A densely symbolic video performance that became a scandal in 1977 when Staberl, one of Austria’s most infamous right-wing columnists, attacked Export as a violator of animal rights.
01 January 1973
“The narrow passage or dangerous passage is a common motif in both funerary and initiation mythologies.
07 September 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 independence from male values and pleasures.
31 March 1989
A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the "Internationale Situationniste," "Cobra," "Spur," and "Wiener Gruppe" groups in Europe, and moving on to the international Happening and Fluxus movements, including the Viennese Actionists, and from 1970 onward to international Body and Performance Art, which also encompassed media art—film and video—the documentary presents film and photographic material from these art movements.
12 September 1969
The film is ‘shown’ in the dark. But the cinema has shrunk somewhat – only two hands fit inside it.
01 January 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.
01 January 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 lasciviously closes and opens her eyes.
31 December 1967
Documentary and pseudo-documentary procedures were filmed simultaneously by two cameras from different viewpoints.
04 February 1977
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with colour, still photographs with video, earsplitting sounds with disruptive camera angles.
01 January 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 sexuality.
01 January 1986
A Perfect Pair posits the idea that individual consumers are walking billboards for the products they use; product slogans and brand names peeking out from every crevice and cranny of the actors’ bodies.
07 September 1973
“This film deals with exploring one´s surroundings by means of the body, and the exploration of the surrounding body.
01 January 1973
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 machine to do things with various formal, artistic or performance-like sequences on celluloid: cross-fading, rewinding and starting over again, not having any clear pictures.
01 January 1988
“Writer Elfriede Jelinek has repeatedly made statements about her television-watching habits. She watches a great deal, a wide variety of what is broadcast, though rarely for pleasure or the purpose of gaining knowledge.
01 January 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 synthesized tones.
10 April 1974
Space Seeing - Space Hearing uses sound and image editing, as well as split-screen effects, to create a performance from a motionless body.
01 January 1977
A drama in the continuum of perturbance in the mixed-gender relationship. Based on shoulder and hand symbolism as historical body language, the history of women in the world of men is broken wide open.
01 January 1969
The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory impetus.
