Valie Export
Directing · Acting · Writing
Born May 17, 1940, Linz, Austria
Valie Export (1940-2026), born Waltraud Lehner, was an Austrian artist. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts.
Filmography
- 2010Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone — Performer, Writer, Director
- 2009I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head — Director
- 2007Seven Easy Pieces — Writer
- 2007The Voice as Performance, Act and Body — Director
- 1997Vaginan — Director
- 1992The Unspeakable Speaking — Director
- 1989Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus — Self, Director
- 1988Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88 — Director, Writer
- 1988Lust — Director, Writer
- 1988Sieben Frauen, sieben Sünden — Director, Writer
- 1986The Duality of Nature — Director
- 1985Home Movies 1971-81
- 1985The Practice of Love — Director, Screenplay
- 1984The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde — Writer
- 1983Syntagma — Director, Producer
- 1981The Total Family — Sister Helga
- 1981Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker
- 1980Menschenfrauen — Director, Producer
- 1980Space Seeing - Space Hearing — Director, Writer, Producer
- 1978Adjunct Dislocations II — Director
- 1977Delta. A Piece — Director
- 1977Invisible Adversaries — Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
- 1976Homo Meter II — Self, Director
- 1974Body Politics — Director
- 1974Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut — Director, Writer
- 1973...Remote..... Remote.... — Director
- 1973Adjunct Dislocations — Director
- 1973Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions — Director, Producer
- 1973Breath Text: Love Poem — Director
- 1973Hyperbulie — Director
- 1973Man & Woman & Animal — Director
- 1973Moving Pictures about Moving People — Director
- 1973Visual Text: Finger Poem — Director
- 1972Interrupted Line — Director
- 1971Facing a Family — Director
- 1970Body Tape — Director
- 1969TAP and TOUCH CINEMA — Director
- 1969The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption — Performer, Director, Writer, Editor
- 1967Abstract Film No. 1 — Director
- 1967Hernals
- 1967Orgasmus — Director
- 1967Self-Portrait with Head — Director
Appearances as themselves (4)
- 2026No Mercy — Self
- 2015Valie Export - Icon and Rebel — Herself
- 1997Birth of a Nation — Self
- 1977ViennaFilm 1896-1976 — Self