ULRIKE OTTINGER FILMRETROSPEKTIVE & AWARD

Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb: 16. - 18.05.2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, Gorgona Hall
Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Dvorana Gorona

Cosmos Ottinger is the title of the programme by which the Art Pavilion in Zagreb, in collaboration with the Subversive Film Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Art, presents the film director and multimedia artist Ulrike Ottinger as part of the series Landscapes of Simultaneous Times: On Memory Practices in Contemporary Art. On the occasion of her guest appearance in Zagreb, the Subversive Film Festival will honour her with the lifetime achievement award The Wild Dreamer. The program takes place May 16th – May 18th, 2024 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.

The Cosmos Ottinger programme will feature six films by Ulrike Ottinger.

On Thursday, May 16th, 2024 at 8 pm, a conversation with Ulrike Ottinger will be conducted by Prof. Dr. Leonida Kovač, author of the Landscapes of Simultaneous Times series.

On Friday, May 17th, 2024 at 7 pm, Prof. Dr. Katharina Sykora will deliver a lecture titled The Ways of Showing in Ulrike Ottinger’s Films. Dr. Sykora is a professor emerita in the history of art and film. She has authored numerous scholarly articles on Ulrike Ottinger’s work and is the author and editor of the book Zwischenwelten: Ulrike Ottingers Filme im Spiegel der transatlantischen Kritik (Göttingen, 2022).

-> booklet pdf

-> Subversive Film Festival

THE WILD DREAMER AWARD / Photo: Vanja Babić

Zagreb, May 16, 2024: Ulrike Ottinger receives The Wild Dreamer Award for her life's work.

Programm

Thursday, May 16th

 

16.30

Laocoon & Sons

The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio,1972/73

(Laokoon & Söhne

Die Verwandlungsgeschichte der Esmeralda del Rio, 1972/73)

16 mm; b/w; 50 minutes

 

17.30

Freak Orlando, 1981

35 mm; color; 126 minutes

 

20.00

Conversation with Ulrike Ottinger

(conducted by Leonida Kovač)

 

 

Friday, May 17th

 

16.30

Madame X - An Absolute Ruler, 1977

(Madame X - Eine absolute Herrscherin, 1977)

16 mm; color; 141 minute

 

19.00

Lecture: Katharina Sykora

The Ways of Showing in Ulrike Ottinger's Films

 

20.30

Dorian Gray in the Morror of the Yellow Press, 1984

(Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984)

35 mm; color; 150 minutes

 

 

Saturday, May 18th

 

16.30

Ticket of No Return, 1979

(Bildnis einer Trinkerin, 1979)

35 mm; color; 107 minutes

 

18.30

Under Snow, 2011

(Unter Schnee, 2011)

35 mm; color, Dolby SR; 103 minutes

 

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