About Event
Paris Calligrammes is an arthouse film, a feature documentary, directed by Ulrike Ottinger, German director, emblem of the avant-garde in Germany and of pop art, now 75 years old.
Rooftop Cinema – Paris Calligrammes
February 15
Paris Calligrammes
Film screening
15. Februar 2022, 7:30pm
Goethe-Institut Abu Dhabi
Original version with English subtitles
Presented by Goethe-Institut and Istituto Italiano di Cultura Abu Dhabi in cooperation with Institut Francais
Free entry, registration required at:
https://pariscalligrammes.splashthat.com
Green Pass on AlHosn app is needed for entry.
Snacks and refreshments will be available at the venue.
About the film:
PARIS CALLIGRAMMES
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Documentation, Germany, France 2020
129 min.
From a topographic perspective, Ulrike Ottinger’s cinema is mostly located between Berlin and remote places in the Far East or the Far North. In PARIS CALLIGRAMMES, she explores the landscape of her memories of the city that she called home for 20 years and that helped shape her beginnings as a painter and filmmaker.
Ottinger moved to Paris in her twenties and immersed herself in the cultural scene of the 1950s populated by heroes of the avant-garde and a new generation of artists and intellectuals. Meandering between bookshops, concert halls, theatres, cinemas, museums and cafés, Ottinger presents her personal pantheon, and at the same time maps a decisive era both in art and in politics where, in-between post-war hopes, the Algerian conflict and the student movements of 1968, there was much to discuss.
Nonetheless, the film maintains its intimate stance throughout, assembling a rich and emotionally charged repertoire of film clips, news reports, photos and songs with the same meticulous affection that people used to stick newspaper clippings and photos in a diary so they could write around them.
Source: 70. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Watch the trailer of “Paris Calligrammes”