Maria-Conception-Action: Hermann Nitsch (1970)

  • NR
  • 05/31/1970 (DE)
  • Documentary
  • 7m

Overview

Since 1963, the Austrian avant-gardist Hermann Nitsch has created a series of live happening, which (like Otto Muehl's Sodoma) combine cruelty, sexuality, defilement, and visual shock for purposes of purification, and "ab-reaction" of sado- masochist impulses. This is a film record of his most controversial creation: the crucifixion of a young woman, the disembowelling of a lamb carcass, and her defilement with it. —Peter Gorsen, Sexualaesthetik, 1972

Irm Sommer

Director

Ed Sommer

Director

Cast

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