Short film
Self-Portrait with Head
1967 · 4 min
A brief, hypnotic stare into a masked face, unsettling and intimate, asking you to sit with its slow, deliberate strangeness.
- Directed by
- Valie Export
- Overview
- “In her first film self-portrait, VALIE EXPORT wears an attention-getting curly wig and caresses a woman´s breasts in slow motion, then lasciviously closes and opens her eyes. The carefully applied makeup and wig tell of disguise and acting, and are simultaneously beautiful and terribly stony like the anonymous woman´s head. The brevity and slow speed are reminiscent of Andy Warhol´s Screen Tests, in which every single one of the face´s movements become visible.” – Brigitta Burger-Utzer
- How it feels
- Eerie, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Identity, gender, art, obsession
- Content
- Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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