
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.
6.2
9 reviewsRuntime: 10 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1973-09-07
Director(s): Valie Export
Languages: No Language
IMDB: tt0157252