SI will title it Body Documents the retrospective that Filmmakera historic Milanese festival that has always been attentive to intercepting authors who move on the edges of experimentation and the hybridization of genres, offers this year.
Hero Valie Exportpseudonym of Waltraud Lehnerfeminist icon of contemporary art, loved by Marina Abramović and Cindy Sherman, author of scandalous and legendary performances over seventy years.
«What would art be if it didn’t derive from the desire to change the world?» the author of one of the films on the program asked: Tapp-und Tastkino (1968), in which Export, wearing a box-shaped prosthesis, invites passers-by in the streets of Vienna to witness a sensorial cinema that has his own body as its object.
One of Valie Export’s “Body Documents” presented at “Filmmaker”.
Not to be missed, among the international competition, the Perspectives competition reserved for male and female authors up to the age of 35, masterclasses and meetings, an exceptional out of competition: the latest film by the author of Heimatnow over ninety years old, Edgar Reitz, Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting.
INFO: Milan, from 15 to 23 November (filmmakerfest.com).
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