<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">We are very pleased that with the reopening of Viennese cinemas, the</span><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> long-awaited retrospective </b><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">of </span><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">VALIE EXPORT</b><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">'s cinematic work, already planned for 2020, will finally start. </span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><div class="">Between <b class="">December 13 and 22, 2021</b>, all feature, short and documentary films by VALIE EXPORT will be presented at the Austrian Film Museum.</div></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class="">
<br class=""></span></div></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="D83B4E2D-0621-43E4-8DAD-616037CCE876" class="" src="cid:92FF0659-381B-4EFA-A12F-2D1D2676216D"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 64px;"><b class="">VALIE EXPORT</b></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font size="7" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">Retrospective</b></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">Austrian Filmmuseum</b></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">VALIE EXPORT, who celebrated her 80th birthday last year, is considered one of the world's most influential artists; her</span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">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 (<em class="">TAPP- und TASTKINO</em>)
to her radical film performances (<em class="">Mann & Frau & Animal</em>, <em class="">...Remote...Remote...</em>) and feature films
like <em class="">Invisible Adversaries</em> (1977) and <em class="">The Practice of Love</em>
(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. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">(Brigitta Burger-Utzer,
Michael Loebenstein / <i class="">Translation: Ted Fendt</i>)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><em style="font-size: 14px;" class="">A collaboration between </em><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">Austrian Filmmuseum </i></b><em style="font-size: 14px;" class="">and <strong class="">sixpackfilm.</strong></em></div><div class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The symposium on VALIE EXPORT, which was also originally planned, has been postponed and will be held in 2022. </i></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 36px;" class="">––</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class="">Opening of the retrospective on December 13 in the presence of VALIE EXPORT</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">18:30 Uhr</b></span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="19F07918-4A9E-401A-AB93-6F7E95C855A1" class="" src="cid:4B45E6E4-88C0-4DED-B939-E0F97D666E16"><img apple-inline="yes" id="A8C1829B-E976-46A0-8A2C-D1FA060CEA45" class="" src="cid:6285C107-BBC2-430C-8345-E65AA96EAEF0"></div><div class=""><h1 class="avtext"><span class="avtext">Short Films by VALIE EXPORT</span></h1><strong class="avtext">Selbstportrait mit Kopf</strong><span class="avtext"> AT, 1966/67, DCP, bw, 4 min</span><br class=""><strong class="avtext">I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head</strong><span class="avtext"> AT, 2009, DCP, col, 12 min. Deutsch mit engl. UT</span><br class=""><strong class="avtext">Facing a Family</strong><span class="avtext"> AT, 1971, DCP, bw, 5 min</span><br class=""><strong class="avtext">Interrupted Line</strong><span class="avtext"> AT, 1971/72, 16mm, bw, 9 min</span><br class=""><strong class="avtext">Ein perfektes Paar oder die Unzucht wechselt ihre Haut</strong><span class="avtext"> AT, 1986, DCP, col, 12 min</span><br class=""><strong class="avtext">Schnitte/Elemente der Anschauung</strong><span class="avtext"> AT, 1971/74, DCP, bw, 17 min</span><br class=""><strong class="avtext">Syntagma</strong><span class="avtext"> AT, 1983, 16mm, col, 18 min</span><br class=""><span class="avtext"> </span><br class=""><i class="">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)</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">21:00 Uhr</b></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="" face=".AppleSystemUIFont"><span class=""><span class="" style="font-style: normal;"><br class=""></span></span></font></div></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="90937C5E-2483-494B-9B34-43E8AD135C45" class="" src="cid:393782CA-E38F-4C39-A450-484E9D52994C"><img apple-inline="yes" id="6D4A5362-BB22-41BA-9021-D2A745470762" class="" src="cid:872B2276-E42E-487D-9C79-031F9772599D"></div><div class=""><h1 class="avtext"><span class="avtext">Unsichtbare Gegner / Invisible Adversaries</span></h1><strong class="avtext"><span class="avtext">Dire</span></strong><strong class="avtext"><span class="avtext">ctor:
VALIE EXPORT (collaboration: Peter Weibel); Script: Peter Weibel
(collaboration: VALIE EXPORT); Camera: Wolfgang Simon; Editing:
VALIE
EXPORT; Actors</span><span class="avtext">: Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Dr. Josef Plavec, Monika Helfer-Friedrich, Helke Sander. AT, 1977, 16mm, col, 108 min. german OV with en subtitles </span></strong></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">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)</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 36px;" class="">––</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Tickets</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><strong class="">Österreichisches Filmmuseum</strong> <br class="">Augustinerstraße 1 1010 Wien<br class="">Tickets: 01-533 70 54 or <a href="https://www.filmmuseum.at/kinoprogramm/schiene?schienen_id=1634694619222" class="">online</a></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">You can find the rest of the program of the retrospective on the</span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1634694619222" class="">site of the Austian Filmmuseum</a></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 36px;" class="">––</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 36px;" class="">www.sixpack</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 36px;" class=""><b class="">film</b></span><span style="font-size: 36px;" class="">.com</span></div></div></div></body></html>