Director: Ulrike Ottinger, colour, 108 min., 2010-2011
We are happy to invite you to the next installment of the ArtHouse Cinema program on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. This time we will screen the film called
Unter Schnee (Under Snow) directed by
Ulrike Ottinger.
It is deep winter in the Japanese province of Echigo. The snowy landscape might look like the backdrop to a fairytale, but life in the white cold is arduous for the inhabitants of the region. Ulrike Ottinger observes contemporary life there and simultaneously sends off two actors on a journey to explore the region’s past. Under Snow is a realistic documentary about a rural area and also an investigation of its myths.
Ulrike Ottinger
Born in Constance in 1942. From 1959 she studied art in Munich, between 1962 and 1968 she worked as a photographer and painter in Paris. In 1966 she wrote her first screenplay, in 1969 she founded the film club “Visuell” in Constance, which she directed until relocating to Berlin in 1972. Her first film was made in 1972. As with most of her productions, she directed, wrote the screenplay, handled the camera and produced the film herself.
Filmography (Selection)
1972/73 LAOKOON & SÖHNE
1973 BERLINFIEBER
1975 DIE BETÖRUNG DER BLAUEN MATROSEN
1977/78 MADAME X - EINE ABSOLUTE HERRSCHERIN
1979 BILDNIS EINER TRINKERIN
1981 FREAK ORLANDO
1983/84 DORIAN GRAY IM SPIEGEL DER BOULEVARDPRESSE
1985 CHINA - DIE KÜNSTE - DER ALLTAG
1986 SUPERBIA - DER STOLZ (1. Episode zu: SIEBEN FRAUEN - SIEBEN SÜNDEN)
1988/89 JOHANNA D'ARC OF MONGOLIA
1991/92 TAIGA
1995-97 EXIL SHANGHAI
2003/04 ZWÖLF STÜHLE
2006/07 PRATER
2008/09 DIE KOREANISCHE HOCHZEITSTRUHE
2010/11 DIE BLUTGRÄFIN
ARTHOUSE CINEMA
Arthouse Cinema is the regular film program of the Goethe-Institut Indonesia. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month we screen independent movies, avant-garde movies, retrospectives, experimental films or documentary films from Europe and Indonesia – anything but the mainstream!
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