Ute Aurand Movies

  • 2006
    Here, it is Very Nice at the Moment

    Here, it is Very Nice at the Moment

    Here, it is Very Nice at the Moment

    02006HD

    "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...

    Here, it is Very Nice at the Moment
  • 1993
    Jón in Akureyri

    Jón in Akureyri

    Jón in Akureyri

    61993HD

    Jón in Akureyri is the second part of Detel + Jón. I filmed Jón Sigrurgeiersson walking through the streets of his childhood,...

    Jón in Akureyri
  • 2016
    Four Diamonds

    Four Diamonds

    Four Diamonds

    62016HD

    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...

    Four Diamonds
  • 2013
    Toying With Strings 3

    Toying With Strings 3

    Toying With Strings 3

    62013HD

    Toying With Strings 3
  • 2021
    Renate

    Renate

    Renate

    02021HD

    A short portrait of the filmmaker Renate Sami.

    Renate
  • 2008
    A Walk

    A Walk

    A Walk

    62008HD

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

    A Walk
  • 1983
    Detour

    Detour

    Detour

    61983HD

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

    Detour
  • 1995
    Maria und die Welt

    Maria und die Welt

    Maria und die Welt

    01995HD

    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...

    Maria und die Welt
  • 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

    02020HD

    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
  • 2018
    Lisa

    Lisa

    Lisa

    02018HD

    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
  • 2011
    Maria

    Maria

    Maria

    02011HD

    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
  • 2011
    Paulina

    Paulina

    Paulina

    02011HD

    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
  • 2022
    Arsenal Film Archive

    Arsenal Film Archive

    Arsenal Film Archive

    02022HD

    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
  • 1995
    At the Sea

    At the Sea

    At the Sea

    61995HD

    A walk, a moment at the beach... And the Japanese filmmaker Utako Koguchi behind the heard piano.

    At the Sea
  • 2011
    Franz

    Franz

    Franz

    02011HD

    "Franz von Lucke is my godchild, and I have filmed him since he was very young. Franz is now 26 years old." U.A.

    Franz
  • 2011
    Lisbeth

    Lisbeth

    Lisbeth

    02011HD

    The portraits allow the filmmaker to emphasize gestures and private moments beyond narration and documentation. In his work system, he collects...

    Lisbeth
  • 2006
    Butterfly in Winter

    Butterfly in Winter

    Butterfly in Winter

    72006HD

    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...

    Butterfly in Winter
  • 2009
    Hanging Upside Down in the Branches

    Hanging Upside Down in the Branches

    Hanging Upside Down in the Branches

    62009HD

    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
  • 2026
    Das neue Arsenal

    Das neue Arsenal

    Das neue Arsenal

    02026HD

    Das neue Arsenal
  • 2003
    Toying with Strings 2

    Toying with Strings 2

    Toying with Strings 2

    62003HD

    “Fadenspiele 2“ (Toying with String 2) is an animation made with the painter, my sister, Detel Aurand. We filmed inside the studio and...

    Toying with Strings 2