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-----Original Message----- From: Secret Cinema [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Fri 08/10/2004 08:29 To: Secret Cinema Cc: Subject: [secretcinema] VALIE EXPORT, 14-20 October 2004 [faked-from][mx] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/pDJolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> VALIE EXPORT 14-20 October 2004, National Film Theatre, London Valie Export is a filmmaker, multi-media and performance artist whose challenging work, which fundamentally explores the intersection between the human body and the technological media, has pushed the boundaries of feminism and the avant-garde. As an artist not confined to the gallery, she also made experimental short films and complex feature-length narratives. Her expanded cinema and performance pieces of the 1960s (often with the participation Peter Weibel, with whom she collaborated on her first two features) gained attention not only in the underground art scene, but also in national television and newspapers. In the wake of the Viennese Actionism movement, Export¹s ŒFemale Actionism¹ was a radical protest that aimed to realign society¹s attitude to women and redress the historical portrayal of the female body in art. In the performance, Tapp und Tast Kino (Touch Cinema), Export critiqued the voyeurism of cinema by appearing in the streets of Vienna wearing a box covered by curtains through which the public were invited to feel her naked chest. Export initially took an extreme and provocative stance to resist the traditional modes of female representation and gain an independence of thought and expression. Sexually explicit and physically jarring, the early short films can be difficult viewing in Mann & Frau & Animal she is seen masturbating and menstruating and in Š Remote Š Remote Š she uses a knife to push back the cuticles of her fingertips until they bleed, before immersing them in milk. Not for the squeamish or puritanical viewer. Having first exploded sexual and cultural taboos, Export focussed on the responsibility of the individual in the social environment. With the more conventional features she made in the 1970s and 80s, narrative filmmaking is used as a vehicle to explore ideas evident in her visual art within a more accessible format. Export integrates the language of commercial cinema with quotations from her videotapes, performances and photographic works, which often appear as discreet sections or in dialogue with the plot. Working with the moving image, Export uses time and space to scrutinise the different layers between reality and the illusion of reality. Her analysis of corruption and the media reached an acute point in the mid-80s, when the plot of The Practice of Love was based on a contemporary arms dealing scandal that was played out in the Austrian press whilst the film was being made. Export¹s work is transgressive and political: an art intended to provoke social change. Concerned with identity, conscience and communication, it was central to the powerful feminist discourse that developed in the 1960s and 70s and is just as relevant today. This season at the NFT, and a major exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, is a vital opportunity to survey the work of one of the most original and influential figures of contemporary art. Valie Export NFT season curated by Mark Webber. With thanks to Ian White. Supported by Austrian Cultural Forum, London. The Valie Export exhibition at Camden Arts Centre is on view from 10 September 7 November 2004. www.bfi.org.uk/nft www.camdenartscentre.org ... VALIE EXPORT Thur 14 Oct 8.40 NFT2; Tue 19 Oct 6.20 NFT2 INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES Anna is a photographer who becomes increasingly obsessed with morbid subject matter as she undergoes a psychological breakdown. Convinced that the world is being taken over by the Hyksos an invisible enemy that appear as immaculate duplicates of human beings she endures a series of surreal and delusional episodes. Invisible Adversaries investigates the control and influence the media exerts on our lives, whilst also critiquing dysfunctional relationships, bourgeois society and global politics. Export¹s first feature is a tour-de-force that integrates her visual work in photography, performance and installation art with elements of a science fiction narrative. Invisible Adversaries (Unsichtbare Gegner) Austria 1976. With Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel. 104 mins. Fri 15 Oct 6.20 NFT2; Tue 19 Oct 8.40 NFT2 MENSCHENFRAUEN Through the interrelated story of four women and their relationships with philanderer Franz, Menschenfrauen (literally translated as ŒHuman Women¹) explores the women¹s place in a man¹s world and the double standards that are perpetuated by society. Whilst the film has a strong narrative drive, it is laced with formal and visual experimentation, and the dark humour does little to diminish the harsh feminist stance. Elisabeth, a self-sacrificing mother, is betrayed by an unappreciative son and abusive partner. Anna and Petra, both pregnant by Franz, turn to each other for affection and support, whilst Gertrude is driven to take more decisive action. MENSCHENFRAUEN Austria 1980. With Renée Felden, Maria Martina, Susanne Widl. 100 mins. Sat 16 Oct 8.40 NFT2; Wed 20 Oct 6.20 NFT2 THE PRACTICE OF LOVE The Practice of Love is a thriller in which television journalist Judith Wiener investigates the events that led to a fatal subway accident, revealing facts which implicate her two lovers in a terrorist conspiracy. Alfons seems out of his depth with his involvement with an arms smuggling racket, while Joseph is a respected psychologist who appears unable to manage his own emotional affairs. The film explores what goes on just below the surface, and how this affects private and public behaviour. THE PRACTICE OF LOVE (Die Praxis der Liebe) Austria 1984. With Adelheid Arndt, Rüdiger Vogler, Hagnot Elischka. 90 mins. Sun 17 Oct 6.20 NFT2 (*); Wed 20 Oct 8.40 NFT 2 MEDIAL ANAGRAMS [+ VALIE EXPORT IN PERSON*] Export¹s work in film and video often focuses on the meaning, transformation and identity of signs and the way they are interpreted and represented as reality by the technological media. The visceral early films MANN & FRAU & ANIMAL and Š REMOTE Š REMOTE Š address these issues in a direct and explicit manner. SYNTAGMA, from 1983, is a complex visual montage in which her entire film, expanded cinema and visual art techniques are concentrated into a work that explores the female body as sign. The screening also includes A PERFECT PAIR, an allegorical depiction of consumer lust from the portmanteau film Seven Women Seven Sins, INTERRUPTED LINE and the video works SEEING SPACE AND HEARING SPACE and THE DUALITY OF NATURE. Total running time c100 mins. (*) In a rare public appearance on 17 October, Valie Export will be present to discuss her work with writer and curator Ian White. Full programme of MEDIAL ANAGRAMS screening :- Mann & Frau & Animal, 1973, colour, sound, 10 mins (16mm) ... Remote ... Remote ..., 1973, colour, sound, 10 mins (16mm) Interrupted Line, 1971-72, b/w, silent. 3 mins (16mm) Raumsehen Und Raumhören, 1974, b/w, sound, 20 mins (video) Syntagma, 1983, colour, sound, 18 mins (16mm) Ein Perfektes Paar, Oder Die Unzucht Wechselt Ihre Haut, 1986, colour, sound, 12 mins (video) Die Zweiheit Der Natur, 1986, colour, sound, 2 mins (video) ... All screenings at the National Film Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT (Nearest Tube: Waterloo) Standard Tickets: £7.90 / NFT Members £6.90 / concessions £6.00 (on day of screening only) Booking in person at the NFT / Box Office telephone 020 7928 3232 / Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/nft Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/secretcinema/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [log in to unmask] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/