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Syntagma

1983 · 18 min

A dense, cerebral video essay that fragments the body into image and language, rewarding close attention with uneasy, ironic reflection.

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.

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • gender
  • sexuality
  • art
  • media
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action1
Horror2
Humour3
Realism4
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity9
Emotional weight6

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Details

Directed by
Valie Export
Starring
Irmilin Hofer
Cinematography
Fritz Köberl
Runtime
18 min
Country
Austria
Languages
German, English

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