Lust
"This video film shows indecency in its modern form. While peddling naked female flesh was considered indecent in the past, we can see by the examples of today´s star athletes that skin full of advertising sells better. The same applies to politicians, of course, though in a more subtle way. Advertising on skin as the new indecency! I consider this film to be a continuation of my previous work with the body as a vehicle for social codes. While in the past it was religion that dictated male and female behaviour, which was also expressed in their physical appearance, business has now assumed this role. Business dictates physical behaviour, physical pressure in its most direct form, and even sets standards for how our bodies are to be represented. Religion no longer prescribes morality, that is now done by the global power of business, with its products and codes. Morality has found a new patron." (Valie Export)
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Valie Export Director · Edgar Osterberger Cinematographer Ewa Märk-Fichtel Editor
United States release October 13, 1988 · Produced in Austria · Original title Ein perfektes Paar oder die Unzucht wechselt ihre Haut
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ZDF
Production
Austria
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Original title
Ein perfektes Paar oder die Unzucht wechselt ihre Haut
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · April 19, 1986
Premiere · Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
United States · October 13, 1988
Theatrical · New York CIty, New York
Germany
January 27, 1987 · TV · West Germany
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