Directed by Ulrike Ottinger • 2007 • Germany, Austria
Starring Veruschka von Lehndorff, Robert Kaldy-Karo
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, novel idea, or sensational innovation could escape incorporation into the Prater. The breathtaking, often surreal images in Ulrike Ottinger’s striking documentary plunge the spectator into their own universe of desires and sensations. The film brings together the cultural history of the oldest amusement park in the world with brilliant insights into the changeability of technological attractions to consider the evolving meaning and enduring allure of a place where seemingly everything is possible.
“Alaska and the Aleutian Islands”
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger • 2016 • Germany
Starring Hanns Zischler, Burghart Klaussner, Thomas Thieme
Unfolding across three chapters and twelve hours, this ethnographic epic documents director Ulrike Ottinger’s journey along the Bering Sea, through Alaska, th...
“Chukotka”
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger • 2016 • Germany
Starring Hanns Zischler, Burghart Klaussner, Thomas Thieme
Unfolding across three chapters and twelve hours, this ethnographic epic documents director Ulrike Ottinger’s journey along the Bering Sea, through Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and...
“Chukotka and Wrangel Island”
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger • 2016 • Germany
Starring Hanns Zischler, Burghart Klaussner, Thomas Thieme
Unfolding across three chapters and twelve hours, this ethnographic epic documents director Ulrike Ottinger’s journey along the Bering Sea, through Alaska, the Al...
