
Known for
Directing
Born
August 9, 1946
Birthplace
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Died
March 7, 2022 (aged 75)
Trained as a painter, O. was cofounder of the Hamburger Filmschau, alongside with her husband and collaborator Werner Nekes. For all the psychedelia of her early work, subsequent films are rigorous in refractory experimentation: rear-projections, double-impositions, repeated frames and breathtaking lunges of the handheld camera, which seems bolstered as much by raw impulse as it does by any guiding principle of onscreen organization. O.’s work establishes its own space-time linearities, then argues them against each other–sometimes content with a mild flicker, a closing or opening aperture or a flurry of blunt smears. This is a playful and often freefalling visual poetics, best left to wash...
2000
Director
1999
as Herself
1998
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
1997
as Self
1994
Director
1991
Director
1988
Director
1985
Director
1985
1983
Director, Writer
1982
1981
Director
1979
1976
Director
1974
Director
1974
1973
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
1972
1971
Director
1970
1969
Director, Director of Photography
1968
Director, Producer, Music, Editor, Sound
1968
1968
1967
Director