Die Praxis der Liebe

VALIE EXPORT's third feature is an anti-romance in which the heroine, between two relationships, gradually discovers that both are impossible, not because the subjective processes of "love" are defective, but because the social matrix in which both her male lovers operate is corrupt: in this film, the male world and its power structures cancel the possibility of love beyond the matter of sexuality. Export makes use of techniques drawn from her earlier experimental cinema, video and conceptual photography to expand the possibilities of narrative feature filmmaking. (Gary Indiana)