DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
This film came about from three trips to Japan between May 2009 and November 2010. Invited to a series of screenings of her work, Aurand began filming in Yokohama, Tokyo and Kanazawa. The themes that run throughout the film are the Japanese people's connection with nature and the fusion between culture and nature. As well as the impulses of her own gaze, which, as in all her work, takes the form of a diary. Kamakura, Kyoto, Nara, Matsushima, Tono, Miyako, Atsumi, Yamadera and Nikko are some more of the cities filmed. All made prior to the tsunami and Fukushima disaster, the work has become an impressionistic and energetic panorama of Japan before it. (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