Valie Export
16mm films

In February Art Stations Foundation is going to show a series of films by Valie Export, one of the best known filmmakers whose work became the canon of the so-called feminist art.

What deserves special attention in the artist's oeuvre is a series of works in which she experiments with the medium of film. Films, videos, performances, photographs... Valie Export is skilfully exploring all those areas. When we view her work from a chronological perspective, we can notice several major phases. The early films make reference to structural cinema. During that phase, that is in the late 60s, her work is based on multiprojection, often changing the filmtape format: super-8, 8mm, or 16mm.

With the beginning of the 70s there appears a strong preoccupation with the body, which serves her many purposes – she approaches it from the perspective of body art but also as a means for building her own, unique narrative strategies. At that time next to the film medium she introduces the video, especially when she films her own performances. Finally, there come the latest works, devoted to the issues of the body and corporeality, which reoccur her films in a variety of contexts. In the visual, it is a film map of the human body.

The films will be screened from 16 mm films.

Program:

Interrupted line, 1971-72 (3 min.)

It's an experiment with the visual and the temporal layer of the film. We see an interplay of geometrical shape with the perceptual flow of time. The cinema is an interruption of normal time flow.

Man frau und animal, 1970- 73 ( 10 min.)

The film makes reference to the concept of the Holy Trinity and its cultural connotations. The “trinity” stands not only for: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but also represents the social ties that bind people together: parents, children, country, society. The film verges on profanity, challenging social, cultural and religious taboos. It can equally be seen as glorification of the body, its subjectitity and the pleasures it gives.

Syntagma, 1984 (20 min.)

It's an attempt at defining the language of film and its structure. The artists sees the film as a product of mutual interrelations between various elements: editing, camerawork, camera track, scene composition, the filmtape, the single frame, etc. The structure of film and its syntactic make-up is compared to the language spoken by film narration.

Invisible adversaries, 1977 (112 min.) 

An attempt at creating a psychological and physical portrait of a ficticious artist, whose suffering from a psychological condition serves as a pretext for displaying sexuality, which in cinema is assigned the status of taboo.
Details:


• Valie Export
• 16mm films
• 19.02.2010 at 20:00
• Studio Słodownia +3
• Tickets 15 PLN