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Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker

1981 · 44 min

A quiet, thoughtful look at an artist at work, more reflective than dramatic.

Directed by
Katja Raganelli
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Valie Export
Overview
Katja Raganelli’s sole excursion into the realm of avant-garde cinema was this focus on Austrian experimental film axiom Valie Export. This portrayal of the filmmaker is quite special as it presents Export at a very particular moment in her career, during the shooting of a fiction feature, Menschenfrauen (1980), with which she was able to break into the avant-garde mainstream, shedding the skin of her path-breaking, often performance-based early works.

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Directed by
Katja Raganelli
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Valie Export
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    Genres
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    Directed by
    Katja Raganelli
    Written by
    Katja Raganelli
    Starring
    Valie Export
    Runtime
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    Country
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    Languages
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