Ute Aurand

To Brasil (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. Aurand's 16mm films are portraits of people and place, often prompted by the discove ...

Arsenal Film Archive (2022)

Shot on 16mm, Ute Aurand documents the archive of Kino Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst before its contents underwent a thorough 'repotting' operation ...

Renate (2021)

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

Rushing Green with Horses (2021)

A collection of fleeting observations that document the passage of time through intimate encounters with friends and family captured between 1999 to 2018. ...

Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 (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 abst ...

Dreaming In The Dark (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 embodime ...

Four Diamonds (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. ...

Sakura, Sakura (2014)

2 minute film about two Japanese ladies. ...

Philipp's 60th Birthday (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. This was also in memory of his father's childhood and the family's connection to the place. It was a very hot ...

To Be Here (2013)

Toying With Strings 3 (2013)

Susan+Lisbeth (2012)

Portrait of Canadian artist Susan Turcot in 1993 and 2011. ...

Young Pines (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. Even in the big cities, I experienced how strongly the Japanese feel connec ...

Maria (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. ...

Franz (2011)

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

Paulina (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. ...

Paulina, Franz & Maria (2011)

Paulina Buda is my godchild, and I have filmed her since she was very young. Paulina is now 15 years old. Franz von Lucke is my godchild, and I have filmed him since he was very young. Franz is now 26 years old. Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend ...

Hanging Upside Down in the Branches (2009)

Ute Aurand's Hanging upside down in the Branches is a gentle, generous and unsparing portrait of the filmmaker's parents, whose passing is marked by remembrance and the loving recording of them - Andréa Picard ...

Building Under Ground (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. ...

A Walk (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. In A Walk, her film goes walking. The camera occupies a snowy Swis ...

Zuoz (2008)

Filmed in Switzerland and released as part of a triptych with A Walk, Zuoz features the filmmaker Robert Beavers skating on ice. Beavers represents another "new beginning" in Aurand's practice. She recalls seeing his work in the late '90s and "enter[ing] a ...

A Walk / Im Park / ZUOZ (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 E ...

Butterfly in Winter (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. Admiration and discretion are sensed. We enter into the intimacy of mother and daught ...

Here, it is Very Nice at the Moment (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. The second part, "Familiengruft - ein Liebesgedicht an meine Mutter" ...

India (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. There in the streets, walking among the people, surrounded by their movements, their gestures, by the ...

Halbmond für Margaret (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. ...

Toying with Strings 2 (2003)

"Fadenspiele 2" (Toying with String 2) is an animation made with the painter, my sister, Detel Aurand. We filmed inside the studio and outdoors in the forest and fields. From various elements like paper, wood, plastic and fabric come images that continuous ...

Tulipan (2002)

Short film featuring images of flowers. ...

In the Garden (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. An extraordinary variety of flora, natural lighting effects, textu ...

Filmmuseum Aufbau 2000 (2001)

Filmed every day during the final four weeks of the Berlin Film Museum's construction. ...

Toying with Strings (1999)

"Toying with string" is painting transformed into film. Color, threads, stones, various natural elements give birth to images constantly changing in form. This metamorphosis is made visible – we see one thing arising from another and giving birth to some ...

At Home (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. ...

Terzen (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. This lead me to reconsider the general tone of the film because, as I reached be ...

Maria und die Welt (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. A landscape, a village, a kitchen, 25 her room. ...

At the Sea (1995)

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

Kleine Blumen, kleine Blätter (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. ...

Neubrandenburg (1995)

One day in Neubrandenburg, filmed in a small city 130km north of Berlin in September 1995. ...

Das fliegende Bild (1994)

The two 11year old friends, Franz and Pablo, run with angel-wings, stand under giant leaves and improvise on their trompet and piano. ...

Bärbel and Charly (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. ...

Jón in Akureyri (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. ...

Detel + Jón (1993)

A film structured around Detel Aurand and Jon Sigurgeiersson. ...

The Princess And The Pea (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. ...

Oh! The Four Seasons (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 t ...

Noch einmal (1988)

Paul Celan Liest (1985)

Paul Celan reads Paul Celan. The words which we hear are seen on the screen - the optical sound negative became the visible image. ...

Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr (1985)

A stylized costume play filmed on the Externsteine, the Reichstag in Berlin and in a noctural rose garden. ...

Detour (1983)

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

Okiana (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. ...

Flight through the Night (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. The film follows the two protagonists, Gretel Kemeny and Martin Peter, through 1980s ...

Silently Engrossed in Conversation (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. ...

The Sparrow Dream (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. Moving between past and present, the film becomes a meditation on perception, time, and ...

Cape Cod (2018)

Noch einmal (1988)