Die Praxis der Liebe
The Practice of Love
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)
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VALIE EXPORT
Austria / Germany
1984
color
90 minutes
German
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
VALIE EXPORT
Cinematography
Jürgen Schmidt-Reitwein
Editing
Juno Sylva Englander
Sound/Sounddesign Johannes Paima
Music Stephen Ferguson, Harry Sokal
With
Adelheid Arndt, Rüdiger Vogler, Hagnot Elischka, Günther Nenning, Gary Indiana
Producer(s) VALIE EXPORT, Hermann Hendrich, Christoph Holch, Thomas Wullenweber
Production
VALIE EXPORT Filmproduktion, Königsmark & Wullenweber Filmproduktion
Hamburg, ZDF
World Sales
sixpackfilm
Austrian Rights
sixpackfilm
World Premiere
Berlinale 1985
Verleih in Österreich / Austrian Rights:sixpackfilm
Weltpremiere / World Premiere:
Berlinale 1985