The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde

Overview

In her three-part series VALIE EXPORT takes a look at the themes of ""staged space - staged time"", ""real movement - movable reality"", and ""structural film"", a genre which no longer exists on public-service television. Using numerous examples from films prepared for the specific media, for example by Wojciek Bruszewski, Malcolm LeGrice, Sergey Eisenstein, Maya Deren, Kurt Kren, Yvonne Rainer, Anne Severson, Alfred Hitchcock, Linda Christanell, Gary Beydler and Marc Adrian, narrative and non-narrative forms of story-telling are examined and compared. Adrian appears in a live interview, and he attempts to explain the conditions of production, methods and Zeitgeist through his own work, including his first computer film, Random (1963). The advanced level of this film is also indicated by the high density of theoretical quotes from Christian Metz, Charles S. Peirce, Vsevolod I. Pudovkin and Ferdinand de Saussure.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 14, 1984

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Austria

Production

ORF

Cast

Valie Export

Director

Zoltán Sándor Pataky

Writer

Valie Export

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt10245372