Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions (1973)

Release Date: 1973-12-31
Runtime: 0h 7min
Production Company: Valie Export Filmproduktion
Production Country: Austria
Director: Valie Export

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…