DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
Let's think about Cézanne's painting technique. Short, parallel brushstrokes where the subject, object and setting are all inseparable. The modern portrait is inseparable from the psychology of the subject, overflowing beyond the figure to imbue every element in the painting. Such are Ute Aurand's film portraits: intimacy permeating the objectual world of the person. On this occasion, Ute portrays Maria Lang, a fellow filmmaker in addition to being a daughter caring for her sick mother. (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
Language
No dialogues
Director
Ute Aurand
Presentation and Q&A with Ute Aurand