Ute Aurand

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Ute Aurand (born May 6, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German experimental filmmaker, curator and lecturer. She lives in Berlin.

Career

Ute Aurand studied from 1979 to 1985 at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) . The collaboration with colleagues such as Elfi Mikesch , Ulrike Ottinger , Maya Deren and Jonas Mekas had a great influence on her work . Since graduating, she has worked as a freelance filmmaker , multiplier , curator and publicist . Ute Aurand understands her 16 mm Bolex camera as a direct visual instrument and she uses the mechanism of the retractable camera for her works. Her films move on the terrain between cinema , composition and contemporary art . Rhythm as energy and movement organization is an important element for them. The Belgian film festival Courtisane wrote in 2017 about the way it works:

For Aurand, the rhythm is essential. “You can call it 'music', but for me it is rhythm. Rhythm is energy and movement, rhythm creates space in my films. "

On March 14, 2016, Cornelia Klauß wrote in her portrait of Ute Aurand with the title appearance of the moment:

At the short film days in Oberhausen, she won the experimental film award with this, her first 7-minute film, which at the time certainly meant an important confirmation of consciously breaking away from the trends of the time when the (male) representatives of the new German film like Wenders, Fassbinder and Herzog occupied the concept of auteur film. She found her inspiration elsewhere: REMINISCENCES FROM A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA by Jonas Mekas and in the films by Elfie Mikesch, Ulrike Ottinger and Maya Deren.

Since 1981 she has curated film programs such as light poems / light poems , hyacinths and poets with the camera / poets with the camera as well as monographic programs with films by Marie Menken , Margaret Tait and Utako Koguchi . In 1987 she founded Ute Aurand Filmproduktion .

In 1991 she worked with Maria Lang on a research project on female students at the DFFB , in the course of which they also founded a film club at the university. The aim of the project was "to enrich the historiography of women by a substantial part." And it finally resulted in the publication of a book in 2 volumes Women make history - 25 years of female students at the dffb and gives an overview of all female students, who studied at the DFFB between 1966 and 1991 (volume 1: bio- and filmographies, volume 2: texts on the films). This is the most comprehensive publication on the history of the DFFB to date.

From 1990 to 1995, together with Maria Lang , she presented the series of female film workers' evening at Kino Arsenal, Berlin, in which she only showed films by women. From 1995 to 1996 she curated the series Sie for 100 Years of Cinema, for example in the Arsenal and Babylon cinemas, in which 12 filmmakers compiled and presented their personal selection of films by other filmmakers .

In 1997 she founded the group FilmSamstag (Filmsamstag) together with Renate Sami and Theo Thiesmeier , later with Bärbel Freund, Karl Heil, Milena Gierke and Johannes Beringer, in order to present a monthly film program at the Filmkunsthaus Babylon Mitte until 2007.

Since 1989 she has also worked as a lecturer and teaches at German and Swiss film schools. Among other things, she taught at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , the Bremen University of the Arts and the Zurich University of Design (1997–2003). In March 2015 she founded the Bolex workshop at the DFFB where she also teaches.

Maria Lang committed suicide in September 2014. Two of my films about myself was the name of a retrospective of her films compiled by Ute Aurand, which was shown in the Zeughauskino in Berlin from September 21 to 24, 2017 . In 2017 the text collection Maria Lang: Texts on the film , edited by Ute Aurand, was published.

She repeatedly shows her films at the Berlinale and at festivals around the world such as TIFF (Wavelengths), IRFF, Media City Film Festival, Punto de Vista, Courtisane Festival Gent, NYFF (Views From The Avantgarde), the Harvard Film Archive, the Pacific Film Archive, the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, on a film tour in Japan and the USA. In 2014, her film work was honored under the title To Be Here: The Films of Ute Aurand at Tate Modern . She was featured artist at the Robert Flaherty Seminar in 2016 and 2013, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna showed two overview programs .

Filmography

  • 1980 Silently absorbed in conversation ; 7 min.
  • 1982 detour ; with Ulrike Pfeiffer, 12 min.
  • 1985 Paul Celan reads ; 5 min.
  • 1987 Wet-dry-warm-cold Iceland ; with Margarita Albrecht, 30 min.
  • 1988 Oh! The four seasons ; with Ulrike Pfeiffer, 20 min.
  • 1993 Detel + Jón 1988-1993 ; 33 min.
  • 1994 Bärbel and Charly ; with Bärbel Freund and Karl Heil, 35 min.
  • 1995 Small flowers, small leaves ; 48 min.
  • 1995 Maria and the world ; 15 minutes.
  • 1998 thirds ; 50 min.
  • 1999 thread games ; with Detel Aurand, 8 min.
  • 2001 Berlin Film Museum ; 21 min.
  • 2002 In the garden ; with Bärbel Freund, 29 min.
  • 2002 Tulipan ; with Bärbel Freund, 1 min.
  • 2002 For Mrs. Foerster ; with Bärbel Freund, 3 min.
  • 2004 half moon for Margaret ; 18 min.
  • 2005 India ; 57 min.
  • 2006 The butterfly in winter ; with Maria Lang, 29 min.
  • 2006 It is very nice here at the moment ; with Maria Lang, 55 min.
  • 2008 Built into the ground ; 42 min.
  • 2008 In the park ; 6 min.
  • 2008 A Walk ; 4 min.
  • 2008 Zuoz ; 1 min.
  • 2009 upside down in the branches ; 15 minutes.
  • 2011 Paulina ; 5 min.
  • 2011 Franz ; 5 min.
  • 2011 Maria ; 3 min.
  • 2011 young pines ; 43 min.
  • 2011 Susan ; 5 min.
  • 2011 Lisbeth ; 2 min.
  • 2013 To Be Here ; 38 min.
  • 2013 thread games 3 ; with Detel Aurand, 9 min.
  • 2014 Philip's 60th birthday ; 5 min.
  • 2015 Sakura, Sakura ; 2 min.
  • 2016 Four Diamonds ; 4 min.
  • 2017 Lisa ; 4 min.
  • 2019 Raging Green with horses ( Rushing Green with horses )

Fonts

  • Maria Lang: Texts about the film. ed. by Ute Aurand, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-057410-8 .
  • Women make history: 25 years of female students at the DFFB. Volume 1, ed. by Ute Aurand and Maria Lang. Berlin 1991.

Literature / articles / interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Aurand. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 35 Avenue at 37 Street Astoria 11106 New York, New York United States 40 ° 45 '22 824 "N, 73 ° 55' 26 1336" W. See map: Google Maps: On Resistance: International Avant-Garde Films & Videos. Accessed June 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 1200 N. Alvarado Street 90026 Los Angeles, California United States 34 ° 4 '41 2932 "N, 118 ° 15' 46 3104" W. See map: Google Maps: Los Angeles Filmforum: Two Nights of Films by Ute Aurand and Margaret Tait. Accessed June 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Carolin Weidner: Filmmaker on the Berlinale: "I can't direct" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 12, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 2, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Ute Aurand: Vita. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ UNDERDOX artist in focus. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Artist in focus: Ute Aurand | Courtisane. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Cornelia Klauß: Ute Aurand | shortfilm.de. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  9. ^ German Films: Company Info: Ute Aurand Filmproduktion. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ute Aurand | DFFB. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ute Aurand, Maria Lang: Women make history - 25 years of female students at the DFFB . In: Ute Aurand, Maria Lang (Hrsg.): ", Volume 1 contains filmographies and biographies of the students from 1966–1991 and Volume 2 texts on their films . Volume 1 and 2. Berlin 1991.
  12. ^ Maria Lang: Texts on the film . Ed .: Ute Aurand. ISBN 978-3-00-057410-8 , pp. 94 .
  13. ↑ Ute Aurand, Maria Lang: Women make history: 25 years of female students at the DFFB . 1991.
  14. ↑ Ute Aurand | DFFB. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Berlin Germany 52 ° 31 '12 0252 "N, 13 ° 24' 17 8344" E. See map: Google Maps: Ute Aurand | Experimental Cinema Wiki. Accessed June 1, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Ute Aurand | DFFB. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Ute Aurand: Vita. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Two films from me about me. Program archive website Zeughauskino
  19. ^ Maria Lang: Texts on the film. ed. by Ute Aurand. Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-057410-8 .
  20. ↑ Search results. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Nature Preserves What The People Forget: The Films of Ute Aurand Part 1 - LA Filmforum. Retrieved June 2, 2019 (American English).
  22. ^ Tate: Ute Aurand 1: to be here - Film at Tate Modern. Retrieved June 1, 2019 (UK English).
  23. ↑ Ute Aurand. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Aurand, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German experimental filmmaker, curator and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main