Movie Details
Original Language:German
Remote Remote
Audience Score
StarringValie Export
DirectorValie Export
10 min
Plot
With sometimes painful directness Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance externalizes an internal state In front of a police photo showing two children who were sexually abused by their parents she tortuously cuts into her cuticles until blood drips into a bowl of milk on her lap On top of the symbolic plane of blood and milk the physical effect on the viewer of her destructive act of selfmutilation is extreme
