DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
Portraits allow the filmmaker to emphasize private moments and gestures beyond narration and documentation. Her work flow involves years spent collecting images before deciding to compose a portrait, such as Franz and Paulina. There are exceptional cases such as Lisbeth, filmed on two occasions and barely edited, in which we see the artist Lisbeth Burri in her garden on the outskirts of Zurich. A monument to the fleeting instant. (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
Thursday 08
19:00 h
Museo Reina Sofia. Edif. Sabatini. Cine.
Credits
Director
Ute Aurand
Presentation and Q&A with Ute Aurand