ASEMIE – THE INABILITY TO EXPRESS ONESELF THROUGH FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

Directed by Valie Export

1973 / 7min

A densely symbolic video performance that became a scandal in 1977 when Staberl, one of Austria’s most infamous right-wing columnists, attacked Export as a violator of animal rights. Export won the ensuing court case with a beginner’s lesson in filmmaking for the judge and jury…