ULRIKE OTTINGER

Since 1974, German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has created a substantial body of films that explore a world of difference defined by t he tension and transfer between settled and nomadic ways of life. In many of her films, including Exile Shanghai, an experimental do cumentary 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.