Ute Aurand Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2002
    Tulipan

    Tulipan

    Tulipan

    02002HD

    Short film featuring images of flowers.

    Tulipan
  • 2012
    Susan+Lisbeth

    Susan+Lisbeth

    Susan+Lisbeth

    02012HD

    Portrait of Canadian artist Susan Turcot in 1993 and 2011.

    Susan+Lisbeth
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2005
    India

    India

    India

    62005HD

    "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...

    India
  • 1999
    Toying with Strings

    Toying with Strings

    Toying with Strings

    01999HD

    "Toying with string" is painting transformed into film. Color, threads, stones, various natural elements give birth to images constantly changing in...

    Toying with Strings
  • 2008
    A Walk

    A Walk

    A Walk

    02008HD

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

    A Walk
  • 2002
    In the Garden

    In the Garden

    In the Garden

    02002HD

    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...

    In the Garden
  • 1988
    Noch einmal

    Noch einmal

    Noch einmal

    01988HD

    Noch einmal
  • 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
  • 2003
    Toying with Strings 2

    Toying with Strings 2

    Toying with Strings 2

    02003HD

    “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
  • 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
  • 1983
    Okiana

    Okiana

    Okiana

    01983HD

    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...

    Okiana
  • 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
  • 1998
    At Home

    At Home

    At Home

    01998HD

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

    At Home
  • 1993
    Detel + Jón

    Detel + Jón

    Detel + Jón

    01993HD

    A film structured around Detel Aurand and Jon Sigurgeiersson.

    Detel + Jón
  • 2014
    Sakura, Sakura

    Sakura, Sakura

    Sakura, Sakura

    02014HD

    2 minute film about two Japanese ladies.

    Sakura, Sakura