Since 1974, German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has created a
substantial body of films that explore a world of difference
defined by the tension and transfer between settled and nomadic
ways of life. In many of her films, including Exile Shanghai, " an
experimental documentary about the Jews of Shanghai, and Joan of
Arc of Mongolia, "in which passengers on the Trans-Siberian Express
are abducted by Mongolian bandits, she also probes the encounter
with the other, whether exotic or simply unpredictable. In Ulrike
Ottinger" Laurence A. Rickels offers a series of sensitive and
original analyses of Ottinger's films, as well as her more recent
photographic artworks, situated within a dazzling thought
experiment centered on the history of art cinema through the turn
of the twenty-first century. In addition to commemorating the death
of a once-vital art form, this book also affirms Ottinger's
defiantly optimistic turn toward the documentary film as a means of
mediating present clashes between tradition and modernity, between
the local and the global. Widely regarded as a singular and
provocative talent, Ottinger's conspicuous absence from critical
discourse is, for Rickels, symptomatic of the art cinema's demise.
Incorporating interviews he conducted with Ottinger and illustrated
with stunning examples from her photographic oeuvre, this book
takes up the challenges posed by Ottinger's filmography to
interrogate, ultimately, the very practice-and possibility-of art
cinema today. Laurence A. Rickels is professor of German and
comparative literature at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, and the author of several books, including The Case of
California, The Vampire Lectures, " and the three-volume Nazi
Psychoanalysis" (all published by Minnesota). He is a recognized
art writer whose reflections on contemporary visual art appear
regularly in numerous exhibition catalogues as well as in Artforum,
artUS, "and Flash Art."
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