Cinema as Language and Action
(Le cinéma comme langage et action)
07/06/2025, 18.00 - 20.00
Festival de l’histoire de l’art
Fontainebleau, France
VALIE EXPORT’s groundbreaking film work emerged within the context of conceptual art, performance, expanded cinema, cybernetics, and body art. Today, she is internationally recognized as a pioneering feminist media artist. Building on the legacy of Austrian avant-garde movements—such as Viennese Actionism and structural film— VALIE EXPORT fundamentally transformed cinema. While a film like Syntagma engages with the material foundations of cinematic language, her approach to filmmaking is far from purist. The point of departure for her "action films" is her own body, as seen in …Remote…Remote…, arguably her most disturbing work.
film program:
Selbstporträt mit Kopf / Self-Portrait with Head (1966-1967, 4 min)
Adjungierte Dislokationen / Adjunct Dislocations (1973, 10 min)
Syntagma (1984, 20 min)
Ein perfektes Paar oder die Unzucht wechselt ihre Haut / Lust (1986, 12 min)
...Remote…Remote… (1972, 10 min)
The film program will be introduced by Ulrike Hanstein. After the screening, there will be a discussion with Christa Blümlinger, Veerle Thielemans, and Ulrike Hanstein.
