Programmed June 2022

Directed by Ulrike Ottinger

Featuring a new introduction by the filmmaker, part of the Channel’s original Meet the Filmmaker series Defiantly unconventional, extravagantly stylized, and gleefully transgressive, the sprawling cinematic pageants of Ulrike Ottinger swirl avant-garde provocation, inquisitive ethnography, punk surrealism, and baroque theatricality into some of the most wondrously unclassifiable spectacles of the New German Cinema. Whether seeing Cold War Germany’s divided capital through radically imaginative eyes in her early Berlin Trilogy or exploring the Mongolian steppes and the Bering Sea in her more recent documentaries, Ottinger blends fantasy and observation in her stunning, painterly images. Lesbian pirates ( Madame X: An Absolute Ruler ), Dorian Gray in drag ( Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press ), self-flagellating leather daddies ( Freak Orlando ), and an…

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