Invisible Adversaries

Invisible Adversaries

109 mins | Drama, Science Fiction | Feb. 4, 1977

Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with colour, still photographs with video, earsplitting sounds with disruptive camera angles. Anna uses her body like a map; after a devastating quarrel with her lover, she paints red stitches on herself. Watching their scenes together, we realize how seldom, if ever before, the details of sexual intimacy have been shown in film from the point of view from a woman. Export privileges rupture over unity and never settles for one-dimensional solutions

Invisible Adversaries

109 mins | Drama, Science Fiction | Feb. 4, 1977

Invisible Adversaries
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with colour, still photographs with video, earsplitting sounds with disruptive camera angles. Anna uses her body like a map; after a devastating quarrel with her lover, she paints red stitches on herself. Watching their scenes together, we realize how seldom, if ever before, the details of sexual intimacy have been shown in film from the point of view from a woman. Export privileges rupture over unity and never settles for one-dimensional solutions
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Valie Export Filmproduktion
Original title Unsichtbare Gegner
Directors Valie Export
Writers Peter Weibel, Valie Export

Cast

Susanne Widl

as Anna

Peter Weibel

as Peter

Josef Plavec

as psychiatrist

Monica Helfer-Friedrich

as Anna's friend