Ute Aurand Movies

  • 2013
    Toying With Strings 3

    Toying With Strings 3

    Toying With Strings 3

    62013HD

    Toying With Strings 3
  • 1980
    Flight through the Night

    Flight through the Night

    Flight through the Night

    01980HD

    Flug durch die Nacht, shot during Ilona Baltrusch's studies at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin - DFFB, explores the relationship...

    Flight through the Night
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Anziehen

    Anziehen

    Anziehen

    01970HD

    Four women film each other getting dressed in this four-part film. The motive for making the film was to work with a Bolex camera. A protected space...

    Anziehen
  • 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
  • 2018
    Dreaming In The Dark

    Dreaming In The Dark

    Dreaming In The Dark

    02018HD

    For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...

    Dreaming In The Dark
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2013
    To Be Here

    To Be Here

    To Be Here

    62013HD

    To Be Here
  • 1985
    Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr

    Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr

    Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr

    61985HD

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

    Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr
  • 2002
    Tulipan

    Tulipan

    Tulipan

    02002HD

    Short film featuring images of flowers.

    Tulipan
  • 2008
    Zuoz

    Zuoz

    Zuoz

    62008HD

    Filmed in Switzerland and released as part of a triptych with A Walk, Zuoz features the filmmaker Robert Beavers skating on ice. Beavers represents...

    Zuoz
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2023
    To Brasil

    To Brasil

    To Brasil

    62023HD

    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...

    To Brasil
  • 1998
    Terzen

    Terzen

    Terzen

    61998HD

    “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...

    Terzen
  • 2021
    Rushing Green with Horses

    Rushing Green with Horses

    Rushing Green with Horses

    62021HD

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

    Rushing Green with Horses