Valie Export

Known for: Directing
Born: May 17, 1940, Linz, Austria
Died: May 14, 2026
Movies: 58

Valie Export (1940-2026), born Waltraud Lehner, was an Austrian artist. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts.

Best-Known Movies

6.7

Invisible Adversaries

1977

5.5

Seven Women, Seven Sins

1986

6.3

...Remote..... Remote....

1973

5.0

The Practice of Love

1985

6.4

Syntagma

1983

6.0

Man & Woman & Animal

1973

5.0

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

2015

7.0

Birth of a Nation

1997

7.0

Menschenfrauen

1980

2.0

Seven Easy Pieces

2007

Filmography

2026	No Mercy	Self
2015	Valie Export - Icon and Rebel	Herself
2010	Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone	Performer
1997	Birth of a Nation	Self
1989	Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus	Self
1985	Home Movies 1971-81
1984	The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde
1981	Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker
1981	The Total Family	Sister Helga
1980	Space Seeing - Space Hearing
1977	ViennaFilm 1896-1976	Self
1976	Homo Meter II	Self
1974	Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut
1973	Man & Woman & Animal
1973	...Remote..... Remote....
1973	Adjunct Dislocations
1969	TAP and TOUCH CINEMA
1969	The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption	Performer
1967	Hernals

Directing, Writing & Producing

2010	Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone	Director, Writer
2009	I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head	Director
2007	The Voice as Performance, Act and Body	Director
2007	Seven Easy Pieces	Writer
1997	Vaginan	Director
1992	The Unspeakable Speaking	Director
1989	Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus	Director
1988	Lust	Director, Writer
1988	Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88	Director, Writer
1986	Seven Women, Seven Sins	Director, Writer
1986	The Duality of Nature	Director
1986	A Perfect Pair	Director
1985	The Practice of Love	Director, Screenplay
1984	The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde	Writer
1983	Syntagma	Director, Producer
1980	Menschenfrauen	Director, Producer
1980	Space Seeing - Space Hearing	Director, Writer, Producer
1978	Adjunct Dislocations II	Director
1977	Invisible Adversaries	Director, Writer, Producer
1977	Delta. A Piece	Director
1976	Homo Meter II	Director
1974	Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut	Director, Writer
1974	Body Politics	Director
1973	Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions	Director, Producer
1973	...Remote..... Remote....	Director
1973	Man & Woman & Animal	Director
1973	Adjunct Dislocations	Director
1973	Breath Text: Love Poem	Director
1973	Visual Text: Finger Poem	Director
1973	Hyperbulie	Director
1973	Moving Pictures about Moving People	Director
1972	Interrupted Line	Director
1971	Facing a Family	Director
1970	Body Tape	Director
1969	TAP and TOUCH CINEMA	Director
1969	The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption	Director, Writer
1967	Abstract Film No. 1	Director
1967	Self-Portrait with Head	Director
1967	Orgasmus	Director

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