Maria-Conception-Action: Hermann Nitsch (movie)
Maria-Empfängnis-Aktion Hermann Nitsch- User score: 3.6
- Production country: Germany
- Producer: Irm Sommer , Ed Sommer
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 12/31/1969
- Run time: 7 min.
Movie description
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
