Short film
Body Politics
1974 · 3 min
A brief, cerebral video experiment that turns a mundane escalator ride into a coolly abstract meditation on human connection.
- Directed by
- Valie Export
- Overview
- Tethered to one another by a rope, two figures standing on parallel escalators perform five ways of being together—“against each other,” “with each other,” “to each other,” “for each other,” and “each other”—challenging expectations of how people can and should coexist in public space.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Identity, freedom, gender
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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