Export 's groundbreaking video piece , '' Facing a Family '' ( 1971 ) was one of the first instances of television intervention and broadcasting video art . The video , originally broadcast on the Austrian television program '' Kontakte '' February 2 , 1971 , shows a bourgeois Austrian family watching TV while eating dinner . When other middle-class families watched this program on TV , the television would be holding a mirror up to their experience and complicating the relationship between subject , spectator , and television . 1977 saw the release of her first feature film , '' Unsichtbare Gegner '' . For this film 's script , she collaborated with her former partner , Peter Weibel . Her 1985 film '' The Practice of Love '' was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival
35th Berlin International Film Festival
35th Berlin International Film Festival
Valie Export