Book Launch
Tue, 04.06.2024, 6:00 PM, Goethe-Institut London
An evening of short talks and longer conversations over a glass of wine to celebrate the publication of a new book on Ulrike Ottinger. We’ll be hearing from the editor Angela McRobbie, some of the contributors and from Ulrike Ottinger herself.
Ulrike Ottinger – Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination will be the first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. Richly illustrated, the book comprises articles engaging with the full range of the works, from the early Berlin feature films of the 1970s and 1980s to the ethnographic documentaries also including the art exhibitions, photography shows, installations, and artist books. The book brings together feminist film theorists with art historians and cultural theorists, each with a distinctive and detailed perspective on the queer fabulist genres. Complementing the articles are a number of interviews with some of Ottinger’s collaborators.
Full Details: Ulrike Ottinger – Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination, edited by Angela McRobbie. Bristol, Chicago 2024. Available from 24 June 2024.
‘A Timely Education: Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989)’ by Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon is collected in the book.
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Freak Orlando: Film Screening & Conversation
Wed, 05.06.2024, 6:30 PM, Barbican Cinema 2
Ulrike Ottinger’s unforgettably bold and bizarre take on Virginia Woolf’s gender-changing hero has to be seen to be believed. See it and stay for a ScreenTalk with Ulrike Ottinger, hosted by Professor Rosalind Galt.
Please follow the link on the side of the page to book your tickets via the Barbican website.
Years before Sally Potter’s Orlando and Paul B. Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography came queer icon Ulrike Ottinger’s wild, sprawling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s gender-changing time traveller, Orlando, played by cult actor Magdalena Montezuma. Alongside residents of so-called ‘Freak City’, Orlando bounces from a modern department store to the Middle Ages to the Spanish Inquisition, encountering weird and wonderful characters on the way.
The film came at the beginning of a wave of queer cinema works made in the last decade of West Germany’s existence. Ottinger’s work with a variety of unconventional actors, the depiction of disabilities and the diversity of the human form, continues to be provocative to this day. It invites us to challenge our own ways of thinking about Queerness and the way we live and conceive it.
West Germany 1981, colour, 126min. With English subititles.
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger. With Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins, Claude Pantoja, Hiro Uschiyama, Galli, Eddie Constantine, Else Nabu, Therese Zemp, and many more.
Jointly presented by the Barbican and the Goethe-Institut London. Part of the Barbican Series Queer 80s – Cinema on the Brink of Global Change, Wed 5 —Wed 26 Jun 2024.
Rosalind Galt is a Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. Her recent books include Alluring Monsters: the Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization (2021) and Queer Cinema in the World (2016), co-authored with Karl Schoonover.
Price: £11- £13
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Paris Calligrammes: Film Screening & Conversation
Fri, 07.06.2024, 6:00 PM, Birkbeck Cinema
As part of this final of three events focusing on Ulrike Ottinger, film scholar Mandy Merck, will introduce her autobiographical film Paris Calligrammes about the time she lived in Paris in the 1960s that shaped her development as an artist.
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