Toying with Strings 2

An animation film made by the filmmaker Ute Aurand in collaboration with her sister, the painter Detel Aurand. Filmed inside the studio and outside - in the forest and fields - various elements were arranged and moved while recording the process frame by frame with a 16mm camera. Thus, the paper, the wood, the plastic, the fabric become endlessly moving and shapeshifting things which are transformed while at the same time transforming the world around them.

Ute Aurand was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1957. She graduated from the DFFB – German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and has been working as a director since 1980. Her films, shot with a 16mm camera, can be described as experimental film poetry. She also works as a curator of film programs focusing on female directors and experimental film.

Her sister Detel Aurand is an artist and painter. Her work includes installations, painting, and drawing, and she has collaborated with Ute on several occasions on the series Toying with Strings.