Ulrike Ottinger

Born, 1942 in Konstanz, Germany

From the archived Documenta 11 website : www.documenta12.de//archiv/d11/data/english/index.html

“Ottinger has been one of the most enduring of filmmakers to emerge from the New German Cinema movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Central to her work is a theatrical meditation on identity and difference particularly in terms of gender and sexual orientation, as well as the complex psychodynamics of power. Ottinger’s work on the mechanics of spectacle, together with a wide range of sexually flamboyant content, has endeared her both to feminist and queer critics and filmmakers. Ottinger has made several experimental documentaries, like Taiga (1991/2), an eight-and-a-half-hour journal of her travels in Mongolia, presented as a record of encounters without any attempt to narrate.”

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