Ute Aurand Movies

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

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

“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...

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

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...

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...

"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...

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

A short portrait of the filmmaker Renate Sami.

In Aurand’s signature diaristic form, roses in bloom, farm animals, Orkney landscapes, and scenes of the late filmmaker Margaret Tait having...

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....

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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

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,...