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 self-mutilation is extreme.
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Valie Export Director
First release September 7, 1973 · Produced in Austria
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German
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United Kingdom · September 7, 1973
Limited theatrical · Festival of Independent Avant-Garde Film
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