BAMPFA: RETROSPECTIVE
November 20, 2020–March 14, 2021Under the banner East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s (BAMPFA) shows Ulrike Ottinger’s films online, accompanied by interviews with the artist. Together, these screenings and conversations offer a chance to get at the heart of an extraordinary body of work made over the last four decades.
IDFA
PARIS CALLIGRAMMESUlrike Ottinger's new film PARIS CALLIGRAMMES will be shown as part of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The film is part of the Masters section and is nominated in the section IDFA Competition for Creative Use of Archive.
As part of the IDFA Masters Program 2020, Ulrike Ottinger gave a Filmmaker Talk, which can be seen online.
PREMIERE IN FRANCE
PARIS CALLIGRAMMES PREMIERE AND EXHIBITION IN PARISOn the occasion of the French premiere of Ulrike Ottinger's film Paris Calligrammes (2020), the GALERIE ERIC MOUCHET is showing Ulrike Ottinger's works from her time in Paris as well as new interpretations of them. The textile works are exhibited for the first time in France.
ULRIKE OTTINGER –
PARIS CALLIGRAMMES
October 9th to December 6th
PARIS CALLIGRAMMES
PREMIERE: FEBRUARY 22 COMING TO THEATERS ON MARCH 5Ulrike Ottinger completed her new film Paris Calligrammes in December 2019, the filming took place in April 2018.
The film takes the artist back to the 1960s when she lived and worked in Paris as a freelance artist.
In Paris Calligrammes, Ulrike Ottinger weaves her personal memories of Parisian bohemianism and the serious social, political and cultural upheavals of the time into a cinematic “figure poem”
The cinema premiere will take place at the 70th Berlinale on February 22, 2020.
PARIS CALLIGRAMMES WINS
Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis 2020PARIS CALLIGRAMMES was awarded the German Documentary Film Prize/the Norbert Daldrop Funding for Art and Culture at the SWR documentary festival.
The German Documentary Film Award is one of the most important awards in German-language film. The SWR has been awarding this major main prize since 2003 in cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg media and film company. In addition, the Norbert Daldrop Funding for Art and Culture awards a prize for a film about artists on the creation of art as part of the SWR Docu Festival.
BERLINALE 2020
Ulrike Ottinger is awarded the Berlinale Camera at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival
Since 1986, the Berlinale has awarded the Berlinale Camera to honour personalities and institutions who have made a special contribution to filmmaking and with whom the festival feels closely connected. In this manner, the Berlinale expresses its appreciation towards those who have become friends and supporters of the festival.
The Berlinale Camera will be awarded to Ulrike Ottinger on Saturday, February 22, at 4.15 pm in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The world premiere of Ottinger’s documentary Paris Calligrammes will be presented afterwards in the Berlinale Special.
