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Ute Aurand was born in 1957 in Frankfurt/Main, and grew up in Berlin. She is a teacher and curator, and a devoted 16mm filmmaker since 1980. She studied filmmaking at the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) during the years 1979-1985. Since 1985 she began to produce her own films. In 1987 she founded "Ute Aurand Filmproduktion".
During 1990-95, she presented the series "Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend" at the Arsenal cinema, Berlin, featuring films made by women, mostly experimental. In 1995-96, organised "Sie zum Beispiel" (Her, for Example) at the Arsenal and Babylon cinemas, in which 12 women filmmakers /artists selected and presented a personal selection of films by other women filmmakers. In 1997, she co-founded the group FilmSamstag (Film Saturday) together with Renate Sami and Theo Thiesmeier, later joined by Bärbel Freund, Karl Heil, Milena Gierke and Johannes Beringer, to present a monthly film programme in Kino Filmkunsthaus Babylon Mitte until 2007. Since 1981 curated film programs e.g. "Lichtgedichte/Light Poems", "Hyacinths" and "Poetinnen mit der Kamera/Women Poets with the Camera" and monographic programs of films by Marie Menken, Margaret Tait and Utako Koguchi.
In 1991 she worked on the research project and book „Frauen machen Geschichte – 25 Jahre Studentinnen an der dffb“ (Women make History-25 Years of Women Students at the dffb), together with Maria Lang.
Most Popular Ute Aurand Trailers
Total trailers found: 58
25 September 2020
In Aurand’s signature diaristic form, roses in bloom, farm animals, Orkney landscapes, and scenes of the late filmmaker Margaret Tait having tea are rendered through expressive Bolex movements as well as the director’s active camera, and punctuated by abstract swaths of saturated and shifting colors.
01 June 2008
Filmed in Switzerland and released as part of a triptych with A Walk, Zuoz features the filmmaker Robert Beavers skating on ice.
10 September 2022
Beavers revisits locations in Berlin first filmed in Diminished Frame (1970), alongside sites in Massachusetts, to reflect on how lived places shape vision and memory.
01 January 2006
"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.
01 January 1995
A walk, a moment at the beach... And the Japanese filmmaker Utako Koguchi behind the heard piano.
25 May 2011
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 impressionist painters.
01 January 1988
Aurand and Pfeiffer filmed each other at four famous sites in Europe: walking in a summer dress through the snow in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, spinning a young boy again and again through the air in Red Square in Moscow, climbing on a hot day into the waterfall at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, and, as two angels in London, walking through the night of the City.
01 January 2001
Filmed every day during the final four weeks of the Berlin Film Museum’s construction.
24 September 1980
Flug durch die Nacht, shot during Ilona Baltrusch's studies at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin - DFFB, explores the relationship between language and image.
12 September 2021
A short portrait of the filmmaker Renate Sami.
01 January 1993
A film structured around Detel Aurand and Jon Sigurgeiersson.
31 March 2018
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.
01 January 1995
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.
01 January 1998
ZU HAUSE (At Home) ist the final sequence in TERZEN, playing with the filmmakers shadow and the Bolex camera while filming in her kitchen.
01 January 1995
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.
01 January 1998
“In the day after seeing Terzen, there was a surprising sense of the film that developed for me. The rhythms were still present and helped to unify a multitude of impressions.
01 January 2011
"Franz von Lucke is my godchild, and I have filmed him since he was very young. Franz is now 26 years old.
01 June 2008
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.
01 January 2011
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 beyond narration and documentation.
01 January 2014
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.
04 March 1983
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.
01 January 1995
One day in Neubrandenburg, filmed in a small city 130km north of Berlin in September 1995.
01 January 2012
Portrait of Canadian artist Susan Turcot in 1993 and 2011.
01 January 1991
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.
01 January 1994
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.
01 January 2011
Paulina Buda is my godchild, and I have filmed her since she was very young. Paulina is now 15 years old.
19 April 1983
Experimental film about a train ride. The carriage window becomes a screen, the landscape a mood, the mood a landscape.
11 September 2023
A filmic encounter with Brazil, which Aurand visited for the first time in September 2022 for screenings of her films and Margaret Tait’s in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
01 January 2006
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.
09 September 2021
A collection of fleeting observations that document the passage of time through intimate encounters with friends and family captured between 1999 to 2018.
14 November 2016
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.
20 December 2022
Shot on 16mm, Ute Aurand documents the archive of Kino Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst bn
01 January 2005
"India" developed out of my three journeys to Pune in 2001, 2002 and 2004. I arrived in a forgein country, and felt surprisingly familiar in the foreign.
04 January 2018
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.
09 October 2014
2 minute film about two Japanese ladies.
01 January 1985
Paul Celan reads Paul Celan. The words which we hear are seen on the screen - the optical sound negative became the visible image.
01 January 1993
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.
01 January 2008
Scenes in the park of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich with its collection of Asian, African and Indian art.
01 January 1994
The two 11year old friends, Franz and Pablo, run with angel-wings, stand under giant leaves and improvise on their trompet and piano.
01 January 1988
Four seasons in four major European cities form a four-part film cycle. This is the third part about autumn in London.
01 January 2004
"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.
07 October 2002
Short film featuring images of flowers.
17 November 2009
Ute Aurand’s Hanging upside down in the Branches is a gentle, generous and unsparing portrait of td
02 February 1980
A small cinematic poem from subjective street scenes, mirrored faces, and the city passing by, as well as naked female bodies underwater, creating an essay made from observed images.
01 January 2011
The portraits allow the filmmaker to emphasize gestures and private moments beyond narration and documentation.
01 January 2008
A triptych of three short silent films. A Walk through the winter of Engadin and Bergell, scenes in the park of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich with its collection of Asian, African and Indian art, and an ice-skater on a sunny day in Zuoz, a village in the Engadin.
09 September 2011
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.
05 June 2008
The film follows the construction of the new expansion of Zurich's Museum Rietberg, from the groundbreaking in May 2004 through to the opening in February 2007.
23 April 1982
A cinematic interpretation of an ancient myth and the visual metaphor of the feminine sea.
01 January 2002
For a year at monthly intervals, Ute Aurand and Bärbel Freund filmed In the Garden, a lovely portrait of a Potsdam-Bornim garden designed in 1910 by gardener and philosopher Karl Foerster.
01 January 2003
“Fadenspiele 2“ (Toying with String 2) is an animation made with the painter, my sister, Detel Aurand.
01 January 1985
A stylized costume play filmed on the Externsteine, the Reichstag in Berlin and in a noctural rose garden.
01 January 1999
"Toying with string" is painting transformed into film. Color, threads, stones, various natural elements give birth to images constantly changing in form.
