Valie Export Movies

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

The starting point for this film is an eighteenth-century musical dice game attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A sequence of short, precomposed...

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

Adjunct Dislocations II documents a technically inventive performance. VALIE EXPORT moves along a track with two closed-circuit cameras that are...

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

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...

"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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

“The narrow passage or dangerous passage is a common motif in both funerary and initiation mythologies. I step inside and move through a...

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

"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....

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

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

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...