Filmmaker in person!

Looking at two ends of a career still very much unfolding, this series brings together German multihyphenate artist and gleeful madwoman Ulrike Ottinger’s name-making “Berlin Trilogy” (Ticket of No Return, Freak Orlando, Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press) and her latest feature to date, 2020’s Paris Calligrammes, here having its New York theatrical debut.

“Perhaps the major female filmmaker of the New German Cinema,” as Sam Bodrojan writes in the Metrograph Journal, Ottinger is a queer iconoclast whose vivacious, ultra-stylish, and zestily bizarre films, twisted tales of time-traveling gender-benders, budding romance in boozy lesbian bars, and malevolent media empire heads, never fail to leave viewers smiling and slightly stunned by the fanatical flurry they’ve just borne witness to. It’s only about 600 miles from Paris to Berlin, but with Ottinger at the wheel, the trip will take you around the world, to places you never dreamed existed.

Presented by Metrograph in collaboration with the German Film Office.

Film Program

October 3, 7:25pm
Paris Calligrammes
(Germany, 2020, 129 min.)
Q&A with Ulrike Ottinger, moderated by filmmaker Michael M. Bilandic

October 4, 5:15pm
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
(West Germany, 1985, 150 min.)
Q&A with Ulrike Ottinger, moderated by New York Times critic Beatrice Loayza

October 4, 8:40pm
Ticket of No Return
(West Germany, 1979, 108 min.)
Introduction by Ulrike Ottinger

October 5, 7:15pm
Freak Orlando
(West Germany, 1981, 126 min.)