Maria-Conception-Action: Hermann Nitsch
MovieTitle | Maria-Empfängnis-Aktion Hermann Nitsch |
User score | 3.6 |
Release date | May 31, 1970 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Ed Sommer , Irm Sommer |
Production country | Germany |
Run time | 7 min. |
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