Ute Aurand Movies

  • 2020
    Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995

    Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995

    Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995

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    In Aurand’s signature diaristic form, roses in bloom, farm animals, Orkney landscapes, and scenes of the late filmmaker Margaret Tait having...

    Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
  • 1988
    Oh! The Four Seasons

    Oh! The Four Seasons

    Oh! The Four Seasons

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    Aurand and Pfeiffer filmed each other at four famous sites in Europe: walking in a summer dress through the snow in front of the Reichstag in Berlin,...

    Oh! The Four Seasons
  • 1980
    Flight through the Night

    Flight through the Night

    Flight through the Night

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    Flug durch die Nacht, shot during Ilona Baltrusch's studies at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin - DFFB, explores the relationship...

    Flight through the Night
  • 2018
    Dreaming In The Dark

    Dreaming In The Dark

    Dreaming In The Dark

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    For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...

    Dreaming In The Dark
  • 2008
    Zuoz

    Zuoz

    Zuoz

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    Filmed in Switzerland and released as part of a triptych with A Walk, Zuoz features the filmmaker Robert Beavers skating on ice. Beavers represents...

    Zuoz
  • 2022
    Arsenal Film Archive

    Arsenal Film Archive

    Arsenal Film Archive

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    Shot on 16mm, Ute Aurand documents the archive of Kino Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst before its contents underwent a thorough...

    Arsenal Film Archive
  • 2011
    Maria

    Maria

    Maria

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    Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female...

    Maria
  • 2013
    To Be Here

    To Be Here

    To Be Here

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    To Be Here
  • 2018
    Lisa

    Lisa

    Lisa

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    A new short film portrait that, as often in Ute Aurands work, was filmed over several years and in different places, in this case Germany and Japan....

    Lisa
  • 2023
    To Brasil

    To Brasil

    To Brasil

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    A filmic encounter with Brazil, which Aurand visited for the first time in September 2022 for screenings of her films and Margaret Tait’s in...

    To Brasil
  • 1983
    Okiana

    Okiana

    Okiana

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    An imaginary journey on a ship. We turned the building of the Film Academy into a ship. Claire and Solange from a Jean Genet piece, a polish woman...

    Okiana
  • 2002
    Tulipan

    Tulipan

    Tulipan

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    Short film featuring images of flowers.

    Tulipan
  • 2022
    The Sparrow Dream

    The Sparrow Dream

    The Sparrow Dream

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    Beavers’ starting point for this film was a question about how the places where he has lived influences how he sees. Beavers return to one or...

    The Sparrow Dream
  • 1994
    Bärbel and Charly

    Bärbel and Charly

    Bärbel and Charly

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    A portrait of the filmmakers Bärbel Freund and Karl Heil like a song in its changing verses, the locations were chosen according to mood and...

    Bärbel and Charly
  • 1983
    Detour

    Detour

    Detour

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    Experimental film about a train ride. The carriage window becomes a screen, the landscape a mood, the mood a landscape.

    Detour
  • 2011
    Paulina

    Paulina

    Paulina

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    Paulina Buda is my godchild, and I have filmed her since she was very young. Filming portraits allows me to emphasize private gestures and moments...

    Paulina
  • 2002
    In the Garden

    In the Garden

    In the Garden

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    For a year at monthly intervals, Ute Aurand and Bärbel Freund filmed In the Garden, a lovely portrait of a Potsdam-Bornim garden designed in...

    In the Garden
  • 2018
    Cape Cod

    Cape Cod

    Cape Cod

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    Cape Cod
  • 2008
    A Walk

    A Walk

    A Walk

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    Throughout her work, Aurand frequently makes her camera and her images felt as an active, moving body—spinning, rushing, departing, returning,...

    A Walk
  • 2009
    Hanging Upside Down in the Branches

    Hanging Upside Down in the Branches

    Hanging Upside Down in the Branches

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    Ute Aurand’s Hanging upside down in the Branches is a gentle, generous and unsparing portrait of the filmmaker’s parents, whose passing...

    Hanging Upside Down in the Branches