Filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger Presents "Chamisso's Shadow"
The avant-garde German film artist (and Montgomery Fellow!) presents selections from her latest documentary, which traces a 19th-century exploration across the Bering Strait.
Presented in conjunction with the Montgomery Fellows Program. Admission to this program is FREE, but ticketed.
Ulrike Ottinger is one of the most prominent German avant-garde artists, known for her paintings, her photographs and, above all, her movies. Reality and fiction can be very close, as she says: “My films are often set in futuristic landscapes and create a surreal imagery, but my inspirations often come from reality, from observing the world, the people, their different cultures and traditional role patterns.”
Ottinger’s art addresses the role of power and its ability to suppress and marginalize differences. Her works are admired for their radical treatment of sexuality and their ways of challenging traditional gender roles through exceptional female characters. Her recent ethnographic documentaries showcase another major theme of her work, exploring relationships between past and present and between eastern and western cultures.
As part of her Montgomery Fellow residency, Ulrike Ottinger presents and discusses selections from her latest work, Chamisso’s Shadow, a documentary series that re-traces a 19th-century expedition from Alaska across the Bering Strait, meditating on the nature of the region and the indigenous people living in the Kodiak region today. Runtime: Approx 1hr compilation, followed by a 40m discussion
