Ute Aurand
TO BRASIL
Germania 2023, 18’30’’
“Mutual Films invited me in September 2022 with two programs of my films to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. That occasion brought me for the first time to Brasil. During these three weeks I filmed To Brasil.” Aurand’s 16mm films are portraits of people and place, often prompted by the discovery and experience of travel. As George Clark has written, the journey is a cornerstone of Aurand’s filmmaking: “Her work builds out from fragments, detours, refrains and returns; her camera picks up discarded gestures and suspends them in time. Films are always moving, always fleeting, Aurand’s work reminds us. These qualities are as fundamental to lived experience as they are to the cinema. Throughout Ute Aurand’s work we encounter a world animated by her mobile and dynamic camera, following, chasing, leading and dissecting space.”
German filmmaker Ute Aurand was born in Frankfurt/Main in 1957 and grew up in Berlin. Between 1979 and 1985, she studied film at the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin. From then on, she has made her own films, initially in the wake of the impressionistic and poetic examples of American avant-garde filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Marie Menken. She has also been a film curator since 1990, in particular programming screenings of experimental films directed by women never released in Germany, including “Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend,” “Sie zum Beispiel,” and “Poetinnen mit der Kamera/Women Poets with the Camera."
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