MariaConceptionAction Hermann Nitsch

Since 1963 the Austrian avantgardist Hermann Nitsch has created a series of live happening which like Otto Muehls Sodoma combine cruelty sexuality defilement and visual shock for purposes of purification and abreaction of sado masochist impulses This is a film record of his most controversial creation the crucifixion of a young woman the disembowelling of a lamb carcass and her defilement with it Peter Gorsen Sexualaesthetik 1972