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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Renate
Ute Aurand
Germany
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Synopsis
Ute Aurand has a secret: to be able to portray the psychological depth of a model, he or she must be one of the artist's friends, a family member or loved one. While camera portraits are indeed simply a set of rules and repertoires that appear to tell us about the model, they lack empathy. Ute Aurand bases all her portraiture on building an intimate moment with her loved ones. On this occasion, we see Renate Sami (1935-2023), filmmaker and Ute's soulmate. Renate reads excerpts from the poem Still Life by Austrian writer Friederike Mayröcker. The poem itself becomes a mirror of Sami's personality. (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