Ute Aurand Movies

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

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...

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

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...

Scenes in the park of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich with its collection of Asian, African and Indian art.

A film structured around Detel Aurand and Jon Sigurgeiersson.

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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

“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...

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...

A collection of brief moments, filmed between 1999 and 2018 on journeys, at home, with friends and alone. They are private gestures that attract my...

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

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

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