Short film
Breath Text: Love Poem
1973 · 2 min
An intimate, hypnotic close-up where fogged glass and breath become a physical, wordless poem.
- Directed by
- Valie Export
- Overview
- Valie Export breathes heavily at the video camera lens while slowly moving her face across it, fogging up the entire space with her lung’s volume. Her piece takes Olson’s breathy poem ‘Gli Amanti’ a step further, not just aiming to capture the particularities of one’s pronunciation in an individual speech act but substituting the specific make her body creates – her ‘breath text,’ the moist gasp on the window glass in front of her – for the signs one would use to write an actual, linguistic ‘love poem.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, identity, art, isolation
- Content
- Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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