In "Paris Calligrammes", Ulrike Ottinger, who lived in Paris as a young painter in the 1960s, weaves her personal memories of the Parisian bohemian scene and the serious social, political and cultural upheavals of the time into a cinematic "figure poem" (calligram).
Text and image, complemented by language, sound and music, combine to form a mosaic from which the fullness of life of this period and at the same time the fragility of all cultural and political achievements speak.
In "Paris Calligrammes", Ulrike Ottinger, who lived in Paris as a young painter in the 1960s, weaves her personal memories of the Parisian bohemian scene and the serious social, political and cultural upheavals of the time into a cinematic "figure poem" (calligram).
Text and image, complemented by language, sound and music, combine to form a mosaic from which the fullness of life of this period and at the same time the fragility of all cultural and political achievements speak.