Ute Aurand Movies

  • 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
  • 2019
    Silently Engrossed in Conversation

    Silently Engrossed in Conversation

    Silently Engrossed in Conversation

    02019HD

    A small cinematic poem from subjective street scenes, mirrored faces, and the city passing by, as well as naked female bodies underwater, creating an...

    Silently Engrossed in Conversation
  • 2014
    Sakura, Sakura

    Sakura, Sakura

    Sakura, Sakura

    62014HD

    2 minute film about two Japanese ladies.

    Sakura, Sakura
  • 2005
    India

    India

    India

    62005HD

    "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...

    India
  • 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
  • 2011
    Paulina

    Paulina

    Paulina

    02011HD

    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...

    Paulina
  • 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
  • 2011
    Young Pines

    Young Pines

    Young Pines

    62011HD

    Young Pines grew out of three trips to Japan between May 2009 and November 2010. Invited to Japan for a series of film screenings, I began filming in...

    Young Pines
  • 2008
    A Walk / Im Park / ZUOZ

    A Walk / Im Park / ZUOZ

    A Walk / Im Park / ZUOZ

    72008HD

    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...

    A Walk / Im Park / ZUOZ
  • 1995
    Kleine Blumen, kleine Blätter

    Kleine Blumen, kleine Blätter

    Kleine Blumen, kleine Blätter

    01995HD

    I asked 10 friends, filmmakers and non-filmmakers, to make a film about the Seasons - a child, an 80year old, a painter, two artists and filmmaker...

    Kleine Blumen, kleine Blätter
  • 1985
    Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr

    Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr

    Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr

    61985HD

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

    Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr
  • 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
  • 2008
    Zuoz

    Zuoz

    Zuoz

    62008HD

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

    Zuoz
  • 2021
    Rushing Green with Horses

    Rushing Green with Horses

    Rushing Green with Horses

    62021HD

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

    Rushing Green with Horses
  • 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
  • 1985
    Paul Celan Liest

    Paul Celan Liest

    Paul Celan Liest

    11985HD

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

    Paul Celan Liest
  • 2014
    Philipp's 60th Birthday

    Philipp's 60th Birthday

    Philipp's 60th Birthday

    02014HD

    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....

    Philipp's 60th Birthday
  • 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
  • 2011
    Paulina, Franz & Maria

    Paulina, Franz & Maria

    Paulina, Franz & Maria

    02011HD

    Paulina Buda is my godchild, and I have filmed her since she was very young. Paulina is now 15 years old. Franz von Lucke is my godchild, and I have...

    Paulina, Franz & Maria
  • 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