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Wed Nov 4

San Francisco Cinematheque presents

In Present Tense: Films of Ute Aurand

Presented in collaboration with the Pacific Film Archive


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$5 - $10

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California College of the Arts - San Francisco Campus
1111 8th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107 map
cross street: Hooper St.
district: Potrero Hill

Wed Nov 4 (7:30 pm)

Description
For thirty years, German filmmaker Ute Aurand has been creating films drawn from her daily life, travels and friends. Aurand’s films find a spontaneous interaction with the here and now. Her signature staccato bursts of imagery share a stylistic affinity with Jonas Mekas, but lack the Lithuanian émigré’s melancholy. Instead, her work has a joyous present tense, the flooding imagery of the now. This program features two early films, "Deeply Absorbed in Silent Conversation (Schweigend ins Gespräch vertieft)" and "Thirds 1 (Terzen 1)", and a stunning new work, "Building Underground (In die Erde gebaut)." In the latter, she follows the construction of the new wing of Zurich’s Museum Reitberg from the groundbreaking in 2004 to its opening in 2007. Aurand creates a portrait that beautifully melds her seeing with her subject. Her image bursts, like bricks and mortar, constructing moving pictures out of fragments much like the labourers build up the museum wing from under the ground.