UTE AURAND

Oct. 01 2019

MassArt Design and Media Center

UTE AURAND | Ute Aurand was born in Frankfurt/Main in 1957 and grew up in Berlin. Between 1979-1985, she studied filmmaking at the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). Since 1985 she is producing her own films. 

Ute Aurand’s films are personal diaries, portraits of the people around her. The presence, now past, this urge to re-present with careful camera-eye attention is ever apparent in her work. The breath of pure cinema in these films with their focus as miniatures of time, images assembled over days to weeks to years. Their focus on duration and compression, reveling in gestures and appearances of the moment stay true to Aurands aesthetic. Described by the artist as “poems of light”, a description she once used to characterize the work of filmmakers that inspired her.