Directed by Ulrike Ottinger • 1981 • West Germany
Starring Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins
Ulrike Ottinger transforms Virginia Woolf’s queer feminist classic ORLANDO into an outrageous camp spectacle in which a gender-fluid time traveler (Magdalena Montezuma) zigzags across history—from medieval times to the modern day—over the course of five episodes. The great Delphine Seyrig costars in this flamboyant fantasy epic that blends everything from Greek mythology to Tod Browning’s FREAKS into a defiantly queer, carnivalesque historical pageant.
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger • 1984 • West Germany
Starring Veruschka von Lehndorff, Delphine Seyrig, Tabea Blumenschein
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. M...
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger • 1989 • West Germany, France
Starring Badema, Lydia Billiet, Christoph Eichhorn
Ulrike Ottinger reinvents the adventure film with her singular queer feminist sensibility and eye for camp spectacle. While traveling aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, a coterie of inter...
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger • 1992 • Germany
This meditative documentary is Ulrike Ottinger’s monumental account of the extensive time she spent in Mongolia, patiently capturing the rituals and rhythms of everyday life among the nomadic people of the country’s North. Breathtaking landscapes and ...