Visual Text: Finger Poem (1973): cast, story & where to watch
1973 · Film
Released in 1973, Visual Text: Finger Poem is a notable film directed by Valie Export.
What it’s about. "The body as carrier of information, in order to convey both spiritual and physical contents, is the reflected image of the internal/psychological and of the external/institutional reality." – VALIE EXPORT “By means of symbolic gestures, a sentence is delivered in sign language, whose wording may only be understood at the end of the performance when the camera pans over a line written on a piece of paper. This is how Sehtext: Fingergedicht defies our concepts of immediate listening and comprehension associated with both hearing and sight. If a literally physical ‘becoming action’ of the verbal is performed, through a language of gestures – in showing by speaking and saying by showing – we can thus identify a dismantling of the hierarchy of the sensory system.” – Sabeth Buchmann
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- When was Visual Text: Finger Poem released?
- Visual Text: Finger Poem was released in 1973.