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Auteur cinema

2 articles from all sections, newest first.

PROFILE

Ulrike Ottinger: Cinema begins long before the camera rolls

Ulrike Ottinger collects, photographs and draws before she shoots. As “Die Blutgräfin” (The Blood Countess) opens in cinemas, her work between the materials book and the costume workshop shows how visual art becomes cinema.

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FILM

How much artistic individuality can cinema afford?

Ulrike Ottinger’s “The Blood Countess” took decades to reach cinemas. Its production history shows how public funding, European partners and personal money make an independent artistic vision possible — and where it still has to pay a price.

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