Films by Magdalena Hutter

2016, 75 min
by Kamilla Pfeffer

A documentary about the painter Oda Jaune and about her paintings. An intimate portrait of a young woman who had to leave her past behind to find her future.She paints bodies that are mutilated and disfigured, naked and sexless, faceless. Disturbing paintings, painful paintings. And she paints faces radiating happiness, people in paradise, people who can fly. Tender, touching paintings. Originally from Bulgaria, Oda Jaune studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, becomes a master scholar of Jörg

Germany 2010, 18 min
by Anna Brass, Magdalena Hutter

When Vera Bondy came to Montréal in 1953, she had already decided to leave her past behind, to become a ‘normal’ person again. She enjoys living in this lively city and appreciates it for its cultural diversity and the omnipresence of the arts. Art, she says, is good company. But over the years she has realized that time doesn't heal, and the past becomes more present every day. Until it finally appears again in the very concrete form of ‘Hlas Pudy’ a magazine written by children in the Terezín