A collection of brief moments, filmed between 1999 and 2018 on journeys, at home, with friends and alone. They are private gestures that attract my attention, spontaneously filmed beyond narration or documentary: Anton in his apartment in Lichtenberg, Lilian and Nanouk 10 days old, Jón’s 94th...
Ute Aurand’s Hanging upside down in the Branches is a gentle, generous and unsparing portrait of the filmmaker’s parents, whose passing is marked by remembrance and the loving recording of them - Andréa Picard
A woman’s self-discovery unfolds through a series of mirrored and reflected moments - puddles, shadows, tears in mylar, and finally the body of another beneath water - until, breaking her silent reverie, she opens a train window to embrace the world beyond her own reflection.
Ute Aurand films Maria Lang in her daily activity as she cares for her mother. The presence of the filmmaker is visible in the camera movements and in the editing rhythm. Admiration and discretion are sensed. We enter into the intimacy of mother and daughter through the eyes of a friend. The silent...
Paulina Buda is my godchild, and I have filmed her since she was very young. Paulina is now 15 years old. Franz von Lucke is my godchild, and I have filmed him since he was very young. Franz is now 26 years old. Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german...
For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment. Could cinema be an art of embodiment?...
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 with her Madonna, screaming sailors are a few of the passengers on this artifical journey.
Throughout her work, Aurand frequently makes her camera and her images felt as an active, moving body—spinning, rushing, departing, returning, expanding, contracting, hanging upside down. In A Walk, her film goes walking. The camera occupies a snowy Swiss setting, as Aurand creates a material,...
I asked 10 friends, filmmakers and non-filmmakers, to make a film about the Seasons - a child, an 80year old, a painter, two artists and filmmaker friends, I also made one.
"Glimpses of my life. Friends, snow, two tulips, skaters on the frozen lake of my childhood, balloons in the morning sun, my godchild Paulina running up and down the hill, Ulrike’s 50th birthday on the Baltic Sea, my desk in November 2003." - Ute Aurand
"Toying with string" is painting transformed into film. Color, threads, stones, various natural elements give birth to images constantly changing in form. This metamorphosis is made visible – we see one thing arising from another and giving birth to something new. “Toying with string is by two...
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 season: in spring, in snow, in Venice, in the flat, alone and together.
