DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
Aurand writes about this filmic poem, "Two memories from a longer visit to New England in Autumn 2012: A group of elderly ladies playing bridge followed by the stormy ocean at Cape Cod in winter while listening to Etienne Grenier's music practice." A curious analogy is added to cinema as a memory of fleeting sensations, that of Cézanne's card players, masculine and rough, transfigured into a group of old women. (CG)
Director biography
Ute Aurand
Ute Aurand (Frankfurt, 1957) is an experimental filmmaker and one of the great representatives of first-person cinema shot on 16mm. Trained at the DFFB in Berlin (German Film and Television Academy), her work has been screened internationally at institutions such as the Harvard Film Archive, Filmmuseum Vienna, Tate Modern (London), Lincoln Center (New York), Filmforum (Los Angeles) and the Instituto Moreira Salles (Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), as well as part of the avant-garde sections of festivals such as IFFR (Rotterdam), TIFF (Toronto), Berlinale, NYFF (New York), DocLisboa, Courtisane (Ghent) and Punto de Vista (Pamplona). She is a film programmer and archivist at Arsenal. Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin), a world-class center for international film.
Images gallery
Finished
Sessions
May
Friday 09
19:00 h
Museo Reina Sofia. Edif. Sabatini. Cine.
Credits
Director
Ute Aurand
Presentation and Q&A with Ute Aurand