Valie Export Movies

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were...

Menschenfrauen is a film about relationships and the psychological oppression of women in society. Franz, a journalist, maintains relationships with...

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...

Judith is a maverick reporter who is also seeking a satisfying relationship with various men. She finds corruption and power-games everywhere.

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...

Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of...

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

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,...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

"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....

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 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...

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

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...

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

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

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...