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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_-3290613823044236855gmail-docs-internal-guid-6b256ba3-7fff-be92-01f9-c90213562de4"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">*English version below*</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Liebe Freund*innen von FILM AUF FILM,</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">In diesem Newsletter teilen wir mit Euch:</span></font></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Rückblick – FILM AUF FILM: Ted Fendt </span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Workshopfilm – FILM AUF FILM: Ojoboca</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Ankündigung – FILM AUF FILM: Ute Aurand</span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">RÜCKBLICK – FILM AUF FILM: TED FENDT</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Im Januar durften wir </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Ted Fendt</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> zu Gast in Köln begrüßen. In einem zweistündigen Ateliergespräch hat Ted über Einschränkung und Freiheit im minimalistischen Film gesprochen und </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">behind the scenes</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-al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arraum 3 | Eintritt frei, keine Anmeldung erforderlich</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Sonntag, 17. Mai 2026, 18:00 Uhr | Film auf Film: Ute Aurand | Filmprogramm | Filmhaus Kino | Tickets via Filmhaus</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">FILM AUF FILM: Ute Aurand</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Ute Aurand</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> ist eine in Berlin lebende Experimentalfilmerin, Kuratorin und Filmvermittlerin. Sie hat an der Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) studiert und gehört zu einer Generation von Filmemacherinnen, die das experimentelle Kino in Berlin und Westdeutschland der 1980er Jahre maßgeblich geprägt haben. In ihren überwiegend auf 16mm gedrehten Arbeiten hat Aurand eine distinktive filmische Sprache entwickelt, die von Rhythmus, kaleidoskopartigen Schnitten und wiederkehrenden Motiven geprägt ist. Ihre Arbeiten widmen sich alltäglichen Momenten und zeichnen sich durch eine besondere visuelle Dichte aus. Seit den 1990er Jahren steht der Tagebuchfilm im Zentrum ihres Schaffens. Ihre Filmografie umfasst mehr als vierzig Arbeiten, von den 1980er Jahren bis in die Gegenwart.</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Neben ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit ist Ute Aurand auch als Kuratorin und engagierte Vermittlerin der (insbesondere weiblichen) Filmgeschichte tätig. Sie initiierte Programme wie den </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> und gab gemeinsam mit anderen die wegweisende Publikation </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Frauen machen Geschichte - 25 Jahre Studentinnen an der DFFB </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">heraus. Darüber hinaus lehrte sie an zahlreichen Filmhochschulen in Deutschland und der Schweiz und initiierte die </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Bolex-Werkstatt</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> an der dffb.</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Wir freuen uns, Ute Aurand am </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">17. Mai</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> in Köln begrüßen zu dürfen. In einem </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Ateliergespräch </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">im </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Filmhaus </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">(14:30–16:30 Uhr) gibt sie Einblicke in ihre filmische Praxis und ihre besondere Arbeitsweise mit der Bolex-Kamera. Am Abend (18:00 Uhr) präsentiert Aurand ihren </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Langfilm </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Rasendes Grün mit Pferden</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> (82 Min., 2019) im </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Filmhaus Kino</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">, gefolgt von einem </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Künstlerinnengespräch</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">.</span></font></p><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mo7g28pv0" alt="5418351026777035996.jpg" width="269" height="381" style="margin-right: 0px;" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0"></div><div><br></div><div>
<font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Die vierteljährliche Veranstaltungsreihe </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">FILM AUF FILM</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> wird durch die Förderung des </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Kulturamts der Stadt Köln</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> ermöglicht.</span></font>

<br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;border-bottom:0.75pt solid rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 1pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Dear friends of FILM AUF FILM</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">,</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">In this newsletter, we share with you:</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">• Recap – FILM AUF FILM: Ted Fendt</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">• Workshop Film – FILM AUF FILM: Ojoboca</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">• Announcement – FILM AUF FILM: Ute Aurand</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">RECAP – FILM AUF FILM: TED FENDT</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">In January, we had the pleasure of welcoming </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Ted Fendt</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> to Cologne. In a two-hour atelier talk, Ted spoke about constraint and freedom in minimalist filmmaking and shared behind-the-scenes material from one of his film shoots. The atelier talk offered participants and filmmakers the opportunity to exchange ideas with Ted on artistic and production strategies, ask questions about working with analog feature films, and reflect on their own personal challenges and approaches.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">As part of the subsequent program of analog projections, we screened the short films </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Going Out</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> (2014, 8 min.) and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Unglückliche Stunde</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> (2023, 10 min.), as well as the feature film </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Classical Period</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> (2018, 62 min.), tracing a trajectory from Ted Fendt’s early work in New Jersey to his current artistic practice in Germany.</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">RECAP – WORKSHOP FILM: OJOBOCA</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">In our last workshop of 2025 with the Berlin-based duo </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Ojoboca</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">, we invited you to explore strategies of subversion: methods of working against the image from within the language of film itself. Together, we engaged with a range of experimental practices aimed at dismantling the image, reducing its power, or displacing it altogether.</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">You can watch the results of the workshop here: </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/1178911004?activityReferer=1" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:georgia,serif" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(70,120,134);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://vimeo.com/1178911004?activityReferer=1</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">ANNOUNCEMENT – FILM AUF FILM: UTE AURAND</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Sunday (May 17, 2026), 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | Atelier Talk with Ute Aurand: Analog filmmaking and the Bolex | 2 hours | Filmhaus, seminar room 3 | Free admission, no registration necessary</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Sunday (May 17, 2026), 6:00 p.m. | Film auf Film: Ute Aurand | Film program | Filmhaus cinema | Tickets via Filmhaus</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">FILM AUF FILM: Ute Aurand</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Ute Aurand is a Berlin-based experimental filmmaker, curator, and film educator. She studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) and emerged as part of a new generation of women shaping experimental cinema in 1980’s Berlin and West Germany. Working primarily with 16mm film, Aurand has developed a distinctive cinematic language grounded in rhythm, kaleidoscopic cuts, and recurring motifs. Her films explore everyday moments with remarkable visual textures. Since the 1990s, diary filmmaking has been at the heart of Aurand’s practice. Her filmography encompasses more than forty works, spanning from the 1980s to the present day.</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Alongside her filmmaking, Ute Aurand has been an active curator and advocate for women’s film history, initiating programs such as the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> and co-editing the landmark publication </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Women Make History – 25 Years of Female Students at the dffb</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">. She has also taught widely at film schools in Germany and Switzerland and initiated the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Bolex-Werkstatt</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> at dffb.</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">On </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">May 17</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">, we are pleased to welcome Ute Aurand to Cologne. In an </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">atelier talk</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> at </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Filmhaus </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">(2:30–4:30 p.m.), she will offer insights into her film practice and her distinctive approach to working with the Bolex camera. In the evening (6 p.m.), Aurand will present her </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">feature film</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Rasendes Grün mit Pferden</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif"> (82 min., 2019) at </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">Filmhaus cinema</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">, followed by an </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">artist talk</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:georgia,serif">.</span></font></p><div><img src="cid:ii_mo7g28pv0" alt="5418351026777035996.jpg" width="269" height="381" style="margin-right: 0px;" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0">

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