Maria-Conception-Action: Hermann Nitsch

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

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Night

Night

1930

The Cactus Kid

The Cactus Kid

1930

Genre Hopper

Genre Hopper

2024

Let’s Be Serial Killers!

Let’s Be Serial Killers!

2022

We Had Some Happy Hours

We Had Some Happy Hours

1981

Swimming in the Dark

Swimming in the Dark

2022

Inside

2013

Bang, Bang

Bang, Bang

2006

Tomboy

Tomboy

2007

Snack Attack

Snack Attack

2012

Paranoid

Paranoid

1994

For the Time Being

2006

Were

Were

2017

Mortys

Mortys

2011

The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers

The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers

2009

Digging Up the Marrow

Digging Up the Marrow

2015

The Design

The Design

1981

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

1903

Waning Moon

2006

Crying Applause

Crying Applause

2023