• Four Diamonds

  • LISA

First-Person Cinema with Ute Aurand: Program 1

  • In Person

The sun-filled Happy Bees is Margaret Tait’s poetic evocation of life as a small child in Orkney. Her Colour Poems, a composite of nine short films, considers memory, chance observation, and the subsuming of one in the other. Aurand’s wonderfully spontaneous Half-Moon for Margaret includes striking imagery of her friends observing a lunar eclipse, family gatherings and celebrations, delicate flowers and vast landscapes. In Four Diamonds, Aurand plays with the idea of a bridge game and the hands of its players contrasted with the stormy coast at Cape Cod. Her film portrait LISA was filmed over the years in Germany and Japan.

Films in this Screening

Happy Bees

Margaret Tait, United Kingdom, 1955

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 17 mins
source
  • LUX Distribution

Colour Poems

Margaret Tait, United Kingdom, 1974

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 12 mins
source
  • Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art

Half-Moon for Margaret
(Halbmond für Margaret)

Ute Aurand, Germany, 2004

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • Silent
  • 18 mins
source
  • Ute Aurand

Four Diamonds

Ute Aurand, Germany, 2016

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 5 mins
source
  • Ute Aurand

LISA

Ute Aurand, Germany, 2017

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 5 mins
source
  • Ute Aurand