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November 16th to December 21st, 2003 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago |
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Ulrike Ottinger South East Passage: A Journey to New Blank Spots on the Map of Europe |
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Times of change are also times of challenge.
This couldn't be more true of Central and Eastern Europe as
countries such as Poland and Hungary stand poised to become
part of the European Union. Ottinger's South East Passage is
the first of two consecutive exhibitions featuring video work
from and about Eastern Europe examining a moment further marking
the transition out of communism. Shot on digital video, South
East Passage is in three chapters - a travelogue of the artist's
journey from southeast Poland to the Bulgarian shores of the
Black Sea and a portrait of two coastal cities, Odessa and Istanbul.
All three chapters are narrated with a voice over scripted from
a wide array of historical and contemporary literature. Based
in Berlin, Ottinger gained notoriety in the mid 1970s as a fiercely
independent and original experimental filmmaker. Her later features
include Freak Orlando, Madame X and Joan of Arc of Mongolia.
In recent years, she has turned to more documentary based practices
as in Taiga, a film about the nomads populating the rolling
hills and valleys of the Mongolian steppes. At 366 minutes,
South East Passage is a seminal work from one of Germany's most
celebrated filmmakers. Mark Manders |
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