ULRIKE OTTINGER FILMRETROSPEKTIVE & AWARD
Museum of Contemporary Art, Gorgona Hall
Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Dvorana Gorona
Cosmos Ottinger is the title of the programme by which the Art Pavilion in Zagreb, in collaboration with the Subversive Film Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Art, presents the film director and multimedia artist Ulrike Ottinger as part of the series Landscapes of Simultaneous Times: On Memory Practices in Contemporary Art. On the occasion of her guest appearance in Zagreb, the Subversive Film Festival will honour her with the lifetime achievement award The Wild Dreamer. The program takes place May 16th – May 18th, 2024 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.
The Cosmos Ottinger programme will feature six films by Ulrike Ottinger.
On Thursday, May 16th, 2024 at 8 pm, a conversation with Ulrike Ottinger will be conducted by Prof. Dr. Leonida Kovač, author of the Landscapes of Simultaneous Times series.
On Friday, May 17th, 2024 at 7 pm, Prof. Dr. Katharina Sykora will deliver a lecture titled The Ways of Showing in Ulrike Ottinger’s Films. Dr. Sykora is a professor emerita in the history of art and film. She has authored numerous scholarly articles on Ulrike Ottinger’s work and is the author and editor of the book Zwischenwelten: Ulrike Ottingers Filme im Spiegel der transatlantischen Kritik (Göttingen, 2022).
Zagreb, May 16, 2024: Ulrike Ottinger receives The Wild Dreamer Award for her life's work.
Thursday, May 16th
16.30
Laocoon & Sons
The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio,1972/73
(Laokoon & Söhne
Die Verwandlungsgeschichte der Esmeralda del Rio, 1972/73)
16 mm; b/w; 50 minutes
17.30
Freak Orlando, 1981
35 mm; color; 126 minutes
20.00
Conversation with Ulrike Ottinger
(conducted by Leonida Kovač)
Friday, May 17th
16.30
Madame X - An Absolute Ruler, 1977
(Madame X - Eine absolute Herrscherin, 1977)
16 mm; color; 141 minute
19.00
Lecture: Katharina Sykora
The Ways of Showing in Ulrike Ottinger's Films
20.30
Dorian Gray in the Morror of the Yellow Press, 1984
(Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984)
35 mm; color; 150 minutes
Saturday, May 18th
16.30
Ticket of No Return, 1979
(Bildnis einer Trinkerin, 1979)
35 mm; color; 107 minutes
18.30
Under Snow, 2011
(Unter Schnee, 2011)
35 mm; color, Dolby SR; 103 minutes