Ulrike Ottinger

  • Ulrike Ottinger – Zwölf Stühle aka Twelve Chairs (2004)

    2001-2010ArthouseGermanyUlrike Ottinger

    Short Synopsis
    …Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in charge of civil marriages. He eagerly takes up the quest to find the treasure. Meanwhile, over the years, the twelve chairs have been dispersed all over the country. However, Worobjaninow is not the only one in pursuit of the treasure. Hot on its trail are Ostap Bender, a clever and colorful conman, as well as Father Fjodor, a priest to whom the wealthy aristocrat has also confessed her secret. Thus begins a wild chase that ranges from North to South, West to East, across water and land, from the country to the city.Read More »

  • Various – Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)

    1981-1990ArthouseBette GordonChantal AkermanFranceHelke SanderShort FilmUlrike Ottinger

    Quote:
    What constitutes a deadly sin today? Seven of the world’s best-known women directors produce their own version of celluloid sin in this omnibus film. Helke Sander (THE GERMANS AND THEIR MEN) reverses GLUTTONY with her vision of Eve forcing her apples into the hands of a reluctant Adam. Bette Gordon (VARIETY, EMPTY SUITCASES) finds GREED during a fight in the ladies’ room of a luxury hotel over a lottery ticket. Strangers reply to director Maxi Cohen’s ad in a newspaper to share their litanies in ANGER. Award-winning director, Chantal Akerman, battles to overcome her SLOTH in order to complete her film, while Valie Export (INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES) strips bare notions of the skin trade in LUST. Read More »

  • Ulrike Ottinger – Taiga (1992)

    1991-2000DocumentaryGermanyUlrike Ottinger

    a review from the New York Times by Stephen Holden:
    Quote:
    In the opening moments of “Taiga,” a mesmerizing eight-hour journey into the nomadic tribal culture of northern Mongolia, the camera makes a slow 360-degree panning shot across the magnificent desolation of the Darkhad Valley, a remote steppe ringed by snowcapped mountains. The only sounds to be heard are wind, running water, bird calls and the moans of grazing herds of yak, sheep and goats.Read More »

  • Tabea Blumenschein & Ulrike Ottinger – Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin (1978)

    1971-1980ExperimentalGermanyPoliticsQueer Cinema(s)Tabea BlumenscheinUlrike Ottinger

    The official synopsis wrote:
    On the women’s ship Orlando the flags of attack, leather, weapons, lesbian love and death are raised with a beauty which dispenses with a total domination of the viewer’s gaze.
    The aesthetic is strictly stylized, exhibiting itself without overwhelming us.Read More »

  • Ulrike Ottinger – Bildnis einer Trinkerin aka Ticket of no Return (1979)

    1971-1980ArthouseGermanyQueer Cinema(s)Ulrike Ottinger

    She purchased a ticket of no return to Berlin-Tegel. She wanted to forget her past, or rather to abandon it like a condemned house. She wanted to concentrate all her energies on one thing, something all her own. To follow her own destiny at last was her only desire. Berlin, a city in which she was a complete stranger, seemed just the place to indulge her passion undisturbed. Her passion was alcohol, she lived to drink and drank to live, the life of a drunkard. Her resolve to live out a narcissistic, pessimistic cult of solitude strengthened during her flight until it reached the level at which it could be lived. The time was ripe to put her plans into action.Read More »

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