Ulrike Ottinger

Born: 1942

in Konstanz (Germany).

She lives end works in Berlin (Germany).

A figure of the German avant-garde, Ulrike Ottinger is a photographer, painter, and filmmaker. After working as a painter in Paris in the 1960s, she shifted towards cinema in 1966, and started directing her first film in 1973, Laokoon und Söhne. Inspired by her travels, her twenty-some films examine the themes of exclusion and ritual. She explored photography at the same time: images she captured during her film shoots became works in their own right.

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