Cutting deals with the cinematic technique of "cutting," or editing, and its importance in terms of the construction of filmic reality. The first part of the film shows a house projected onto a paper screen. The artist cuts out the window of a house with a pair of scissors, giving the impression that she is really opening it. Next, Marshall McLuhan's sentence: "The content of the writing is the speech" is cut out of the illuminated surface of the screen. The last word, however, is pronounced by the artist making the meaning of the spoken sentence a reality. The commitment to the abstract signs of linguistics triggers the image as well as contact with the human body, when Valie Export uses an actor's Bazzoka T-shirt to make a cloth screen, cutting out the bubblegum bubble. Subsequently, the body, now naked, serves as a living screen, the sign of which (the body hair) is shaved by the artist. The act of fellatio at the end clearly shows the most direct form of communication which eschews words and images.