Syntagma

Overview

The body and specifically the "woman's body" is often used as a focus for questions of origin, subject-object relations, political resistance and sexuality. Valie Export's notion of "body language" poses an ironic relation to these questions that acknowledges "the end of the body" or at least the final break with the way in which we understand it to be a biological, existential, or metaphysical entity. Export has broken away from any notion of unity - either body, space, or time - into the fragmented world of doubling and difference that is caught in representation.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1983

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Austria

Production

Valie Export Filmproduktion

Cast

Irmilin Hofer

Director

Valie Export

Producer

Valie Export

Cinematography

Fritz Köberl

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0152790