Invisible Adversaries

The woman and her madness come from not merging with the image of the world that surrounds her, and apart from understandable and explicit feminist criticism (the idea that Valie Export would make a film in the style of Ed Wood!), the most interesting thing is how it grasps (even autobiographically) art as criticism and an artistic tool in the mechanism of the film itself. That is because the schizophrenia of the main character arises precisely from the splitting of reality into its one-dimensional "normal" component and the (re)duplicated copy, visible only through the lens of a camera or the angle of engaged art. In addition, the main character, applying her artistic practices to herself (and thus causing schizophrenia), is increasingly under the control of "invisible adversaries" who progressively replace "normal" people and situations themselves because the main character/artist turns away from the normal perception of the world in favor of the artistic, and it is only through this that she is able to see that "invisible" (but determining) component. Therefore, Export logically intertwines the film with sequences that stand on their own, without a necessary connection to the overall story. (09/11/2016)