Ute Aurand Movies

  • 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
  • 1999
    Toying with Strings

    Toying with Strings

    Toying with Strings

    61999HD

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

    Toying with Strings
  • 1994
    Das fliegende Bild

    Das fliegende Bild

    Das fliegende Bild

    61994HD

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

    Das fliegende Bild
  • 2022
    The Sparrow Dream

    The Sparrow Dream

    The Sparrow Dream

    02022HD

    Beavers’ starting point for this film was a question about how the places where he has lived influences how he sees. Beavers return to one or...

    The Sparrow Dream
  • 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
  • 2022
    Arsenal Film Archive

    Arsenal Film Archive

    Arsenal Film Archive

    02022HD

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

    Arsenal Film Archive
  • 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
  • 1988
    Oh! The Four Seasons

    Oh! The Four Seasons

    Oh! The Four Seasons

    01988HD

    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,...

    Oh! The Four Seasons
  • 2004
    Halbmond für Margaret

    Halbmond für Margaret

    Halbmond für Margaret

    62004HD

    "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...

    Halbmond für Margaret
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1988
    Noch einmal

    Noch einmal

    Noch einmal

    01988HD

    Noch einmal
  • 2013
    To Be Here

    To Be Here

    To Be Here

    62013HD

    To Be Here
  • 1995
    Neubrandenburg

    Neubrandenburg

    Neubrandenburg

    01995HD

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

    Neubrandenburg
  • 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
  • 2001
    Filmmuseum Aufbau 2000

    Filmmuseum Aufbau 2000

    Filmmuseum Aufbau 2000

    02001HD

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

    Filmmuseum Aufbau 2000
  • 2008
    Building Under Ground

    Building Under Ground

    Building Under Ground

    02008HD

    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...

    Building Under Ground
  • 1991
    The Princess And The Pea

    The Princess And The Pea

    The Princess And The Pea

    01991HD

    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...

    The Princess And The Pea
  • 1993
    Jón in Akureyri

    Jón in Akureyri

    Jón in Akureyri

    01993HD

    Jón in Akureyri is the second part of Detel + Jón. I filmed Jón Sigrurgeiersson walking through the streets of his childhood,...

    Jón in Akureyri