Ute Aurand Movies
- 2006

Here, it is Very Nice at the Moment
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"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...
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- 1993

Jón in Akureyri
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Jón in Akureyri is the second part of Detel + Jón. I filmed Jón Sigrurgeiersson walking through the streets of his childhood,...
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- 2016

Four Diamonds
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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...
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- 2013

Toying With Strings 3
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- 2021

Renate
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A short portrait of the filmmaker Renate Sami.
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- 2008

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,...
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- 1983

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.
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- 1995

Maria und die Welt
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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...
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- 2020

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...
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- 2018

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....
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- 2011

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...
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- 2011

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...
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- 2022

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...
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- 1995

At the Sea
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A walk, a moment at the beach... And the Japanese filmmaker Utako Koguchi behind the heard piano.
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- 2011

Franz
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"Franz von Lucke is my godchild, and I have filmed him since he was very young. Franz is now 26 years old." U.A.
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- 2011

Lisbeth
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The portraits allow the filmmaker to emphasize gestures and private moments beyond narration and documentation. In his work system, he collects...
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- 2006

Butterfly in Winter
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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...
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- 2009

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...
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- 2026

Das neue Arsenal
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- 2003

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