Ute Aurand Movies

ZU HAUSE (At Home) ist the final sequence in TERZEN, playing with the filmmakers shadow and the Bolex camera while filming in her kitchen.

Young Pines grew out of three trips to Japan between May 2009 and November 2010. Invited to Japan for a series of film screenings, I began filming in Yokohama, Tokyo, and Kanazawa. Even in the big cities, I experienced how strongly the Japanese feel connected to nature and how they tend to see no...

“Fadenspiele 2“ (Toying with String 2) is an animation made with the painter, my sister, Detel Aurand. We filmed inside the studio and outdoors in the forest and fields. From various elements like paper, wood, plastic and fabric come images that continuously change their form. We see one image...

A film about my friend Maria Lang. The light falls on a few details, chance selections, out of which a place is composed, the place where Maria lives with her mother. A landscape, a village, a kitchen, 25 her room.

My friend of many years, Philipp v. Lucke, celebrated his 60th birthday by inviting his family and friends to join him in a forest near Görlitz. This was also in memory of his father's childhood and the family's connection to the place. It was a very hot July day.

"Here it is very nice at the Moment" is a triptych. In the first part, "Maria und die Welt", Ute Aurand films Maria Lang in 1995, who moves to the countryside to take care of her mother. The second part, "Familiengruft - ein Liebesgedicht an meine Mutter" was produced by Maria Lang in 1981. It...

We hear the actor Alexander Moissi reading the fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson (recorded in 1927), while seeing the face of a young woman standing outdoors against a distant hilly summer landscape.

Manifesto of a group of young women who were to conquer the camera and use the medium from then on for self-questioning and self-assertion.

The portraits allow the filmmaker to emphasize gestures and private moments beyond narration and documentation. In his work system, he collects images for years before making the decision to compose a portrait, like Franz or Paulina. There are exceptional cases like Lisbeth, filmed on two occasions...

Scenes in the park of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich with its collection of Asian, African and Indian art.

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

Filmed every day during the final four weeks of the Berlin Film Museum’s construction.

A stylized costume play filmed on the Externsteine, the Reichstag in Berlin and in a noctural rose garden.

The two 11year old friends, Franz and Pablo, run with angel-wings, stand under giant leaves and improvise on their trompet and piano.

Two memories from a longer visit to New England in Autumn 2012: a group of elderly ladies playing bridge followed by the stormy ocean at Cape Cod in Winter while listening to Etienne Grenier's music practice.

Jón in Akureyri is the second part of Detel + Jón. I filmed Jón Sigrurgeiersson walking through the streets of his childhood, meeting his filmmaker brother and telling childhood stories.