[sixpackfilm] VALIE EXPORT - Retrospective at Austrian Filmmuseum, dec 13–22, 2021

Thu Dec 9 16:44:08 CET 2021

We are very pleased that with the reopening of Viennese cinemas, the long-awaited retrospective of VALIE EXPORT's cinematic work, already planned for 2020, will finally start. 
Between December 13 and 22, 2021, all feature, short and documentary films by VALIE EXPORT will be presented at the Austrian Film Museum.

VALIE EXPORT
Retrospective

Austrian Filmmuseum

VALIE EXPORT, who celebrated her 80th birthday last year, is considered one of the world's most influential artists; her work combines a multimedia art practice and theory with feminist concerns. In 1967, EXPORT intentionally chose an artist's name to distance herself symbolically from the role assigned to her as a woman in the art world within a male-dominated society. In her various forms of expression –                                           including drawing, conceptual photography, installation, sculpture, and performance – film and video play a central role. One of art's major transgressors, she has always moved back and forth between media and categories such as analogue/digital and physical/virtual.

In addition to the structure and effects of moving images, EXPORT is interested in examining the body, part of a "divided existence" between reality and representation. This fundamental brokenness is the basic principle behind both EXPORT's aesthetics and politics, making her critique of the media as relevant as ever. In terms of the far-reaching shifts that digital has brought to society, politics, and how we understand our bodies, her work has lost none of its sharp provocation. The selected films span the boundary-breaking art actions and early 8mm films of the 1960s (TAPP- und TASTKINO) to her radical film performances (Mann & Frau & Animal, ...Remote...Remote...) and feature films like Invisible Adversaries (1977) and The Practice of Love (1985) as well as documentaries with subjects including Elfriede Jelinek, Oswald Wiener, the history of avant-garde film, and the development of international action art. 
(Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Michael Loebenstein / Translation: Ted Fendt)

A collaboration between Austrian Filmmuseum and sixpackfilm.
The symposium on VALIE EXPORT, which was also originally planned, has been postponed and will be held in 2022. 
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Opening of the retrospective on December 13 in the presence of VALIE EXPORT

18:30 Uhr

Short Films by VALIE EXPORT

Selbstportrait mit Kopf AT, 1966/67, DCP, bw, 4 min
I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head AT, 2009, DCP, col, 12 min. Deutsch mit engl. UT
Facing a Family AT, 1971, DCP, bw, 5 min
Interrupted Line AT, 1971/72, 16mm, bw, 9 min
Ein perfektes Paar oder die Unzucht wechselt ihre Haut AT, 1986, DCP, col, 12 min
Schnitte/Elemente der Anschauung AT, 1971/74, DCP, bw, 17 min
Syntagma AT, 1983, 16mm, col, 18 min

The short films form a possible cross-section of VALIE EXPORT's film and video work: The self-portrait in conscious transformation and exposure; the voice and language as important parts of identity; critique of media coverage and its unconscious consumers*; familial dependency and the captivity of children; the structural interest in time and space and the possibilities of the moving image to shift, to expand perception; the statement on the state of the world, exceptionally staged as a shrill comedy; the documentary combined with the serial in an investigation of the city and the private living space; and finally, as one of the highlights: Syntagma, which combines EXPORT's inimitable variety of techniques with feminist and actionist content. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)

21:00 Uhr

Unsichtbare Gegner / Invisible Adversaries

Director: VALIE EXPORT (collaboration: Peter Weibel); Script: Peter Weibel (collaboration: VALIE EXPORT); Camera: Wolfgang Simon; Editing: VALIE EXPORT; Actors: Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Dr. Josef Plavec, Monika Helfer-Friedrich, Helke Sander. AT, 1977, 16mm, col, 108 min. german OV with en subtitles 

Anna, a photographer and video reporter in Vienna, hears on the radio about the invasion of strange, invisible beings - the Hyksos, who want to take possession of humans and the earth. "VALIE EXPORT's film gets its interesting dimensions for us not only from the subject matter of a schizophrenic young woman and her relationship with a paternalistic type, but from the aesthetics she has developed in the process. Namely, the film no longer makes the neat separation between objective, normal environment and schizophrenic, abnormal distortion and projection, even aesthetically. Neither does it quasi-objectively cinematically separate projections and dreams from the environment, nor does it lose itself to painting the woman's subjective perspective by pretending to be narrated from it. Rather, the aesthetic of the film consists precisely in the fact that it interweaves the different levels." (Gertrud Koch)

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Tickets

Österreichisches Filmmuseum 
Augustinerstraße 1 1010 Wien
Tickets: 01-533 70 54 or online <https://www.filmmuseum.at/kinoprogramm/schiene?schienen_id=1634694619222>

You can find the rest of the program of the retrospective on the site of the Austian Filmmuseum <https://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1634694619222>
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