Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 1: Alaska and the Aleutian Islands
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Foreign Title: Chamissos Schatten
Date: January 01, 2016 to December 31, 2016
Dates Note: 2016
Country of Origin:
Germany
Place of Origin: Germany
Languages:
German
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English
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Curator Notes
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East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike OttingerDescription:
In 2014, Ulrike Ottinger journeyed to the distant regions of the Bering Sea—to Alaska, then Chukotka and Wrangel Island, and on to Kamchatka and Bering Island—following along the paths of historic expeditions and explorers, such as the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller and Vitus Bering; later, Captain James Cook; and, still later, the poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso, who traveled with Otto von Kotzebue. Over a three-month period, Ottinger filmed the remarkable landscape, flora, and fauna; documented encounters with local residents, who subsist off the land and sea; and kept a logbook of her experiences. In the resulting multipart film, her observations enter into a fascinating dialogue with the logbooks and records of past explorers. A work of great beauty—possibly Ottinger’s magnum opus—Chamisso’s Shadow holds appeal for those interested in nature, history, geography, science, ethnography, indigenous cultures, art, and cinema, and should be more widely known.
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Afterimage: Ulrike OttingerDescription:
In 2014, Ottinger journeyed to the distant regions of the Bering Sea—to Alaska, then Chukotka, and on to Kamchatka—following along the paths of historic expeditions and explorers, such as the naturalist Georg Willem Steller and Vitus Bering; later, Captain James Cook; and, still later, the poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso, who traveled with Otto von Kotzebue. Over a three-month period, Ottinger films the remarkable landscape, flora, and fauna; documents encounters with local residents, who subsist off the land and sea; and keeps a logbook of her experiences. Her observations enter into a fascinating dialogue with the logbooks and records of past explorers. A work of great beauty—possibly Ottinger’s magnum opus—this multipart film holds appeal for those interested in nature, history, geography, science, ethnography, indigenous cultures, art, and cinema, and should be more widely known.
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