With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance, externalizes an internal state. In front of a police photo showing two children who were sexually abused by their parents, she tortuously cuts into her cuticles until blood drips into a bowl of milk on her lap. On top of the symbolic plane of blood and milk, the physical effect on the viewer of her destructive act of self-mutilation is extreme.
Valie Export
Director
Valie Export
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Le Cinéma de grand-père
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One Last Hug
2014
Tall Poppy: A Skater's Story
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How to Cook Your Life
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Pocahontas: Beyond the Myth
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As Long As There's Breath
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Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
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The Battle of The Alamo
1996
Keyboard Fantasies
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Silent Pioneers
1985
Art and Craft
2014