Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we are discussing Valley Export.

Listen, Vienna's history is of oblivion and treason.

Its wickedness and brutality, population and authorities are as one. The cultural climate

of the republic has heightened this continuum of corruption by the banality. The banality of evil is not

Viennese dirty washing, but its very face. Discuss. Uh, valley export is very cool.

That's right. Valley Export is an Austrian, multidisciplinary artist,

perhaps not primarily known as a filmmaker, although filmmaking is one of the many things she has done.

Even in her performance art, like filmmaking has elements in it. For example, one of her performance

art pieces, Touch Cinema, involved her going out with basically a little cinema over her breasts,

and she asked people on the street to reach in through the curtain and feel her up.

That's right.

It was this cardboard box, this apparatus with a little curtain on it.

It was a movie theater over her breasts.

And there is like a one minute film that you can

find of one such street performance in Vienna where it was her and like a guy next to her

speaking into a megaphone. Yeah, come on up, come on up to tap and touch cinema and reach in

and feel my breasts to break the barriers between what is kind of sitting and just taking in this stuff and actually experiencing it. The male gaze versus the male touch. And in the one minute little film you can see of it, you can see like the cameras often cutting to men looking at her sort of like leering like, oh, hubba, hubba, hubba, a bunch of techs aviary wolves. And then, of course, when they put their hands in the apparatus, they feel uncomfortable.

Yeah. Because they are now having to interact with a human being doing this. Eye contact suddenly becomes very difficult. And she also has another piece where she walked into

a art house cinema with pants that had no crotch. So you just saw her genitalia and she just walked through looking at all of the people to break that barrier between the object on screen and somebody flesh and blood in front of you.

Right.

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