TO BRASIL
Ute Aurand, Germany, 16mm, 18.5 min, 2023 A filmic encounter with Brazil, which Aurand visited for the first time in September 2022 for screenings of her films and Margaret Tait’s in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. [Aurand’s] work builds out from fragments, detours, refrains, and returns; her camera picks up discarded gestures and suspends them in time. Films are always moving, always fleeting, her work reminds us. These qualities are as fundamental to lived experience as they are to the cinema. Throughout Ute Aurand’s work we encounter a world animated by her mobile and dynamic camera, following, chasing, leading, and dissecting space.—George Clark Ute Aurand (1957). 45+ films since 1980; solo screenings at venues including Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Austrian Film Museum, Tate Modern, and (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico. Curator (1990–95) of Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend, a series of experimental films by women at Arsenal in Berlin; co-founder (1997) of Filmsamstag monthly film series at Kino Babylon in Berlin; editor and publisher of books on Marie Menken (1992) and Margaret Tait (1993). Lives in Berlin, Germany.
