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Geboren 1957 in Frankfurt am Main, aufgewachsen in Berlin.
Studium an der Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) 1979-85.
Ab 1985 freie Filmarbeit.
Aufführungsorte und Festivals u.a.:
International Film Festival Rotterdam; Toronto International Film Festival (Wavelengths); Berlinale (Forum Expanded); Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada; Hong Kong International Film Festival; NYFF (Views From the Avant Garde / Currents); Tate Modern London; Österreichisches Filmmuseum; Arsenal Berlin; Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Pacific Film Archive; Harvard Film Archive; Anthology Film Archives; CalArts, LA; Cinematheque San Francisco; Goethe Institut London / Santiago de Chile; Feminale Köln; AVE Netherland; Riga International Film Festival; Ecole de Beaux Arts Paris; Waseda University Tokio; Museum of Modern Art Yokohama; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa; Cultuurcentrum Brugge; International Film Festival Gijon, Spain; Courtisane Film Festival Ghent; CCCB Barcelona; Close Up, London; Doclisboa, Lissabon; Robert Flaherty Film Seminar 2016: PLAY (curator: David Pendleton); Underdox (Filmmuseum München); Images Festival Toronto; Sheffield Doc/Fest; Punto da Vista; Filmadrid; Porto/Post/Doc, Portugal; MaasArt, Boston; Mar Del Plata, Argentien; Athens Avangarde Festival; Yebisu International Festival for Art&Alternative Visions, Tokio; Curta Vila do Conde IFF, Portugal; Ficunam, Mexico City; Open City Documentary Festival, London; Fracto, Berlin; Exis, Seoul; Melbourne International Festival; Viennale, Wien; (S8) XIII festival A Coruña, Spanien; IMS (Instituto Moreira Salles), Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro;
Werkschauen und wichtige Gruppenprogramme seit 2012:
2012:
Intimate Portraits: Films of Ute Aurand curated by Susan Oxtoby, Pacific Film Archive.
Film Portraits by Ute Aurand curated by Haden Guest, Harvard Film Archive.
2013:
In Person: Ute Aurand, curated by Alexandro Bachmann, Österreichisches Filmmuseum Wien.
Fragment of a filmmaker's work: Ute Aurand and Margaret Tait, curated by Federico Rossin,
états généraux du film documentaire, Lussas, Frankreich.
Ute Aurand, FILMS, curated by Alexander Hetherington, The Modern Edinburgh Film School.
2014:
A camera of one’s own. Film portraits and diaries by Ute Aurand, Margaret Tait and
Marie Menken, CCCB, Barcelona.
To Be Here: The Films of Ute Aurand kuratiert von George Clarke, Tate Modern London
A Paradise Built In Hell, Kunstverein Hamburg
Ute Aurand: Here and Now, curated by Maria Palacios Cruz, Brussels
2015:
Films of Place by Ute Aurand, curated by Haden Guest, Harvard Film Archive
Ute Aurand: Eye Movement Stillness, Cinematheque Vancouver
Personal Space: Films by Aurand and Beavers, curated by Joanna Raczynska,
NGA, Washington, DC.
2016:
Un corte es un movimiento: las películas de Ute Aurand
Asociación Lumière (Francisco Algarin); Barcelona.
2017:
Artist in Focus: Ute Aurand, curated by Maria Palacios Cruz, Courtisane Festival, Gent.
Zwei Filme von mir über mich - Werkschau der Filmemacherin Maria Lang
curated by Ute Aurand, Zeughauskino Berlin.
2018:
Ponrepo Cinema Prag, curated by Jiří Žák
Ute Aurand & Robert Beavers - Light and Shadow Underdox, Filmmuseum München
2019:
Ute Aurand - Film as Movement in Everyday LIfe, Yebisu International Festival for Arts and
Alternative Visions, curated by Hiroko Tasaka.
Another Country: Outsider Visions of America, Lincoln Center, NY
(based on the book: AMERICA Films from Elsewhere by Shaney Jhavery).
Film is her Notebook, Goethe Institut / Rubanah Underground Hub, Jakarta, Cinematheque Bangkok, curated by Lisabona Rahman.
Ute Aurand Focus, Porto/Post/Doc, Portugal
2020:
Meditations on the present: Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz, Renate Sami
book and 5 film programs, (edited & curated by Garbiñe Ortega, Maria Palacioz Cruz) Punto de Vista, Spain.
2022:
Artist in Focus: Ute Aurand, (S8) XIII festival - Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Program 1, Program 2, curated by Elena Duque, A Coruna, Spain.
Filmse de Ute Aurand e Margaret Tait, curated and organized by Mutual Films, IMS (Instituto Moreira Salles), Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro.
2023:
Ute Aurand - Inner Dialogues, Scratch Projection, Paris, presented by Federico Rossin.
Indi-Visual, Ute Aurand, Programm 1-3, EXIS, Seoul.
Artikel / Interviews / Bücher:
Rhythmisierung - Ein Gespräch mit der Filmemacherin Ute Aurand,
Philipp von Lucke, Film&TV Kameramann 7/2003.
- In Present Tense: Films by Ute Aurand, Chris Kennedy 2010
- Postcards from the Avant Garde - Highlights from the 49th NYFF's Views,
Aily Nash, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2011.
- Carte Blanche to Robert Beavers, Courtisane Festival, Gent, 2011.
- Interview with Ute Aurand by Federico Rossin, états généraux du film documentaire, 2013.
- Aurand & Tait, cine de resistencia poética, Diagonal Periodico.net 2013.
- Introducing the intimate films of Ute Aurand, Erika Balsom, Tate Modern, 2014.
- A Conversation between Ute Aurand and Robert Beavers about Terzen. , 2014.
- Gespräch: Ute Aurand mit Madeleine Bernstorff, dffb-Archive 2015.
- "…Wenn ich im Dunkel des Kinos sitze", Kinema Kommunal 1/2016, Conny Klauß.
- Auftritt des Augenblicks , www.shortfilm.de, Conny Klauß, 3/2016.
- Berlin: We should talk 02 - Ute Aurand, (Talk with Jiří Žák von artycok TV, Prague, March 2018)
- Wir machten andere Filme - Erinnerungen an mein Studium an der dffb und an Maria Lang
(1945–2014), Filmblatt 64/65, Spring 2018.
- Ich kann nicht inszenieren, Interview with Carolin Weidner, TAZ 13.2.2019
- Research Notes and Stills from To Be Here Ute Aurand, in: AMERICA - Films from Elsewhere,
edited by Shanay Jhaveri, The Shoestring Publisher, Mumbai, India 2019.
- Intimacy, Distance and Detail in Ute Aurand’s ‘Rasendes Grün mit Pferden, Esmé Hogeween,
published in Another Gaze, Oct 2019.
- Meditations on the present: Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz, Renate Sami
& 5 film programs, edited & curated by Garbine Ortega, Maria Palacios Cruz, Punto de Vista,
Pamplona, 2020, with texts by George Clarke, Sarah Neely, Soon-Mi Yoo:
True Journey is Return: Detours and Returning in Ute Aurand's Films by George Clarke
The Textures of Memory: Ute Aurand's Rushing Green with horses by Sarah Neely
Everyday Sublime by Soon-Mi Yoo
- On time still by Rebecca Jane Arthur (p 264-272), in: BE GOOD, IF YOU CAN'T BE GOOD,
BE GOOD AT IT Boom Boom Boom Boom. Rebecca Jane Arthur, Eva Giolo, March 2021
- Ute Aurand and Renate Sami in Conversation, Open City Documentary Festival, London, 2021
- Interview with Kat Goska for attaque(e)r le visible, 2021
- Ute Aurand / Nick Collins - Places and Portraits, in Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental
Cinema; edited by Simon Payne/Andrew Vallance, Published by Contact 2021.
- Conversation about the film Renate, by Ute Aurand & Robert Beavers, Ficunam / Umbral01,
Mexico City, 2022
- The Tonality of Days, Elena Duque, (S8) XIII festival - Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Coruña, 2022
- On the Visibility of Women's Experimental Cinema - Birgit Hein and Ute Aurand in Germany
by Sylvia Schedelbauer, in: A Companion to Experimental Cinema edited by Federico Windhausen,
published by Willey Blackwell 2022.
- In The Realm Of The Personal. A conversation with Ute Aurand. Arindam Sen,
published in Millenium Film Journal 75 / Spring 2022.
- Conversation with Ute Aurand, (english+portuguese) Gabriel Linhares Falcão, published in: LIMIT,
Nov 2022.
- The Faces Of Experimental Film, by Sanders Isaac Bernstein, in: Exberliner Vol22, Feb 2023
Kuratorische Arbeit seit 1990:
- 1990-1995 Filmarbeiterinnen-Abende Kuratorin monatlicher Filmabende im Kino Arsenal.
- 1995-96 monatliche Filmreihe Sie zum Beispiel im Kino Arsenal und Babylon-Mitte, Berlin.
- Organisation von Filmtourneen mit Werkschauen und freie kuratierte Filmprogramme.
- Mitbegründerin des Filmsamstag im Babylon. Mitte (1997-2007), Präsentation monatlicher
Filmabende zusammen mit Renate Sami, Theo Thiesmeier, Bärbel Freund, Milena Gierke,
Karl Heil und Johannes Beringer.
- Seit 2016 Mitarbeit bei Großes Kino, kleines Kino: Filmreihe mit experimentellen Filmen für Kinder
im Kino Arsenal, Berlin (Gruppe "Arsenal Filmatelier").
Lehrtätigkeiten seit 1989:
Hochschule der Künste Hamburg, Hochschule der Künste Bremen; Deutsche Film- und
Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb); Dozentin für Experimentellen Film, Hochschule für Gestaltung
Zürich 1997-2003. Gründung einer BOLEXWERKSTATT, dffb März 2015.
Seit 2010 Mitarbeit in der Gruppe "Arsenal Filmatelier" (Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers, Anna Faroqui,
Eunice Martins, Haim Peretz, Stefanie Schlüter): analoge Filmworkshops an Berliner Schulen und Kitas.
Textsammlungen und Bücher im Selbstverlag:
- Forschungsprojekt und Buch: Frauen machen Geschichte - 25 Jahre Studentinnen an der DFFB,
zus. mit Maria Lang, 1991. Band 1: Filmo- und Biographien, Band 2: Filme von 1966-1991.
- MARIA LANG : TEXTE ZUM FILM, Hg. Ute Aurand, September 2017, anläßlich von Zwei Filme
von mir über mich - Werkschau der Filmemacherin Maria Lang, Zeughauskino Berlin.
- Marie Menkens Filmpoesie , hg.Ute Aurand, Regina Schütze, 1992, anläßlich der 1. Werkschau
mit Filmen von Marie Menken innerhalb der Reihe Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend.
- Margaret Tait - Werkschau, hg. Ute Aurand 1993, anläßlich der 1. Werkschau mit Filmen von
Tait in Deutschland, innerhalb der Reihe Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend.
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Born in 1957 in Frankfurt/Main, grew up in Berlin.
1979-1985, studied filmmaking at the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb).
Since 1985 producing her own films. Ute Aurand Filmproduktion.
Festivals and showcases i.a.:
International Film Festival Rotterdam; Toronto International Film Festival (Wavelengths); Berlinale (Forum Expanded); Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada; Hong Kong International Film Festival; NYFF (Views From the Avant Garde / Currents); Tate Modern London; Österreichisches Filmmuseum; Arsenal Berlin; Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Pacific Film Archive; Harvard Film Archive; Anthology Film Archives; CalArts, LA; Cinematheque San Francisco; Goethe Institut London / Santiago de Chile; Feminale Köln; AVE Netherland; Riga International Film Festival; Ecole de Beaux Arts Paris; Waseda University Tokio; Museum of Modern Art Yokohama; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa; Cultuurcentrum Brugge; International Film Festival Gijon, Spain; Courtisane Film Festival Ghent; CCCB Barcelona; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Robert Flaherty Film Seminar 2016: PLAY, curated by David Pendleton; DocLisboa, Portugal; Ponrepo Cinema Prag; Images Festival Toronto; Filmmuseum München (Underdox); Sheffield Doc/Fest; Punto da Vista, Pamplona; Filmadrid; Porto/Post/Doc; MaasArt, Boston; Mar Del Plata; Athens Avantgarde Festival; Yebisu International Festival for Art&Alternative Visions, Tokio; Curta Vila do Conde IFF, Portugal; Ficunam, Mexico City; Open City Documentary Festival, London; Fracto, Berlin; Exis, Seoul; Melbourne International Festival; Viennale, Vienna; Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt; (S8) XIII festival A Coruña, Spain; IMS (Instituto Moreira Salles),Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro;
Recent solo screenings and important group shows since 2012:
2012:
Intimate Portraits: Films of Ute Aurand, curated by Susan Oxtoby, Pacific Film Archive.
Film Portraits by Ute Aurand, curated by Haden Guest, Harvard Film Archive.
2013:
In Person: Ute Aurand, Österreichisches Filmmuseum Wien, curated by Alexandro Bachmann.
Ute Aurand, FILMS, curated by Alexander Hetherington /The Modern Edinburgh Film School.
Fragment of a filmmaker's work: Ute Aurand and Margaret Tait, curated by Federico Rossin, états généraux du film documentaire.
2014:
A camera of one’s own. Film portraits and diaries by Ute Aurand, Margaret Tait and Marie Menken, CCCB, Barcelona.
To Be Here: The Films of Ute Aurand, curated by George Clarke, Tate Modern London.
A Paradise Built In Hell, Kunstverein in Hamburg.
Ute Aurand: Here and Now, curated by Maria Palacios Cruz, OFFoff Gent, WOLKE Brussels.
2015:
Films of Place by Ute Aurand, Haden Guest, Harvard Film Archive.
Ute Aurand: Eye Movement Stillness, Cinema in the Cinematheque Vancouver.
Personal Space: Films by Aurand and Beavers, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
2016:
Un corte es un movimiento: las películas de Ute Aurand , realizado por la Asociación Lumière, colaboración con Birdie Num Num, Barcelona.
2017:
Artist in Focus: Ute Aurand, kuratiert von Maria Palacios Cruz, Courtisane Film Festival, Gent.
Zwei Filme von mir über mich - Werkschau der Filmemacherin Maria Lang, kuratiert von Ute Aurand, Zeughauskino Berlin.
2018:
Ponrepo Cinema Prag, curated by Jiří Žák
Ute Aurand & Robert Beavers - Light and Shadow Underdox, Filmmuseum München.
2019:
Ute Aurand - Film as Movement in Everyday LIfe, Yebisu International Festival for Arts and Alternative Visions.
Another Country: Outsider Visions of America, Lincoln Center, NY (based on the book: AMERICA Films from Elsewhere by Shaney Jhavery).
Film is her Notebook, Goethe Institut / Rubanah Underground Hub, Jakarta, Cinematheque Bangkok, kuratiert von Lisabona Rahman.
Ute Aurand Focus, Porto/Post/Doc, Portugal
2020:
Meditations on the present: Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz, Renate Sami, book (Edited by Garbiñe Ortega, Maria Palacioz Cruz) and 5 film programs; Punto de Vista, Pamplona, Spain:
2022:
Artist in Focus, (S8) XIII festival - Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Coruña, Program 1, Program 2 , curated by Elena Duque.
Filmse de Ute Aurand e Margaret Tait, curated by Mutual Films (Mariana Shellard, Aaron Cutler), IMS (Instituto Moreira Salles), Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro.
2023:
Ute Aurand - Inner Dialogues, Scratch Projection, Paris, presented by Federico Rossin.
Articles / Interviews / Books:
- Rhythmisierung - Ein Gespräch mit der Filmemacherin Ute Aurand, Philipp von Lucke, Film&TV Kameramann 7/2003.
- In Present Tense: Films by Ute Aurand, Chris Kennedy 2010.
- Postcards from the Avant Garde - Highlights from the 49th NYFF's Views, Aily Nash, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2011.
- Carte Blanche to Robert Beavers, Courtisane Festival, Gent, 2011.
- Interview with Ute Aurand by Federico Rossin, états généraux du film documentaire, 2013.
- Aurand & Tait, cine de resistencia poética, Diagonal Periodico.net, 2013.
- Introducing the intimate films of Ute Aurand, by Erika Balsom, Tate Modern, 2014.
- A Conversation between Ute Aurand and Robert Beavers about Terzen. 2014.
- Gespräch: Ute Aurand mit Madeleine Bernstorff, dffb-Archive 2015.
- "…Wenn ich im Dunkel des Kinos sitze", Kinema Kommunal 1/2016, Conny Klauß.
- Auftritt des Augenblicks , www.shortfilm.de, Conny Klauß, 3/2016.
- Berlin: We should talk 02 - Ute Aurand, Talk with Jiří Žák von artycok TV,Prague, March 2018.
- Wir machten andere Filme - Erinnerungen an mein Studium an der dffb und an Maria Lang (1945–2014), Filmblatt 64/65, Spring 2018.
- Ich kann nicht inszenieren, Interview with Carolin Weidner, TAZ 13.2.2019.
- Research Notes and Stills from To Be Here by Ute Aurand, in: AMERICA - Films from Elsewhere, edited by Shanay Jhaveri, The Shoestring Publisher, Mumbai, India 2019.
- Intimacy, Distance and Detail in Ute Aurand’s ‘Rasendes Grün mit Pferden, by Esmé Hogeween, published in Another Gaze, Oct 2019.
- Book: Meditations on the present: Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz, Renate Sami & 5 film programs, edited & curated by Garbiñe Ortega, Maria Palacios Cruz, Punto de Vista, Pamplona, Spain, with texts:
True Journey is Return: Detours and Returning in Ute Aurand's Films by George Clarke
The Textures of Memory: Ute Aurand's Rushing Green with horses by Sarah Neely
Everyday Sublime by Soon-Mi Yoo
- On time still by Rebecca Jane Arthur (p 264-272), in: BE GOOD, IF YOU CAN'T BE GOOD, BE GOOD AT IT Boom Boom Boom Boom. By Rebecca Jane Arthur, Eva Giolo, March 2021.
- Ute Aurand and Renate Sami in Conversation, Open City Documentary Festival, London, Sept 2021.
- Interview with Kat Goska for attaque(e)r le visible, 2021.
- Ute Aurand / Nick Collins - Places and Portraits, in "Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema"; Edited by Simon Payne/Andrew Vallance, Published by Contact 2021.
- Conversation about the film Renate, by Ute Aurand & Robert Beavers, Ficunam / Umbral01, Mexico City, 2022
- In The Realm Of The Personal. A conversation with Ute Aurand. By Arindam Sen. Published in Millenium Film Journal 75 / Spring 2022.
- The Tonality of Days, Elena Duque, (S8) XIII festival - Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Coruña, Spain, June 2022.
- Conversation with Ute Aurand, by Gabriel Linhares Falcão, published in: LIMIT, Nov 2022.
- On the Visibility of Women's Experimental Cinema - Birgit Hein and Ute Aurand in Germany by Sylvia Schedelbauer, pubished in:
A Companion to Experimental Cinema edited by Federico Windhausen, 2022.
- Conversation with Ute Aurand, (english+portuguese) by Gabriel Linhares Falcão, published in: LIMIT, Nov 2022.
- The Faces Of Experimental Film, by Sanders Isaac Bernstein, in: Exberliner Vol22, Feb 2023
Curatorial work:
1990-95, presented the series Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend at the Arsenal cinema, Berlin, featuring films made by women, mostly experimental. 1995-96, organised Sie zum Beispiel (Her, for Example) at the Arsenal and Babylon cinemas, in which 12 women filmmakers /artists selected and presented a personal selection of films by other women filmmakers. 1997, founded FilmSamstag (Film Saturday) together with Renate Sami and Theo Thiesmeier, later joined by Bärbel Freund, Karl Heil, Milena Gierke and Johannes Beringer, to present a monthly film programme in Kino Filmkunsthaus Babylon Mitte until 2007. Since 1981 curated filmprograms e.g. "Lichtgedichte/Light Poems", "Hyacinths" and "Poetinnen mit der Kamera/Women Poets with the Camera" and monographic programs of films by Marie Menken, Margaret Tait and Utako Koguchi. Since 2016 curating for the film serie Grosses Kino, kleines Kino with experimental films for kids, cinema Arsenal Berlin.
Teaching (selection):
1989/2005/06/07/14 Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb); 1990 Academy of Arts Hamburg: "experimental film class"; 1992/98 Academy of Arts Bremen: "Haiku film seminar"; 1997-2003 lecturer of Experimental Film at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Zürich. Founder of the BOLEXWERKSTATT (Bolex Workshop) at the dffb Berlin 2015.
Books & Booklets, self published:
1991 Research project & book: Frauen machen Geschichte – 25 Jahre Studentinnen an der dffb (Women Make History-25 Years of Women Students at the dffb), together with Maria Lang.
2017 Publisher&Editor of the book: MARIA LANG : TEXTE ZUM FILM
1992 Publisher&Editor (together with Regina Schütze) of a collection of texts: MARIE MENKENS FILMPOESIE (Marie Menkens Film Poetry)
1993 Publisher&Editor of: MARGARET TAIT - WERKSCHAU (Margaret Tait - Work Show)