Overview
Plot
Valie Export performs a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance, cutting into her cuticles until blood drips into a bowl of milk while viewing a police photo of two sexually abused children.
- Directors
- Valie Export
- Cast
- Valie Export
- Country
- Austria
- Genre
- Documentary
- Release date
- 1973-09-07
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In this film performance, Valie Export externalizes an internal state through a direct and sometimes painful psychological investigation of the body. Facing a police photo of two children sexually abused by their parents, she tortuously cuts into her cuticles until blood drips into a bowl of milk on her lap. The symbolic plane of blood and milk heightens the extreme physical effect of her self-mutilation on the viewer.
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