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Valie Export is internationally recognized for her avant-garde films, videos, photographs and performance art. She is also a noted writer on contemporary art history and feminist theory. In much of her work, Export attempts to bring out the innermost thoughts and feelings of women--psychic states that have little to do with the ways in which they were socialized. In 1967 she began a series of experimental films centered around feminist issues. These films include Remote. . . Remote (1973), a film about female self-mutilation. She released her first feature film Unischtbare Gegner in 1976, a highly regarded prize-winning film about women in society. Export is also noted for making films in widely varying formats including feature film, experimental short, documentary, and narrative film. Most of her work, while abstract, is not inaccessible to mainstream audiences.