"Aurand shares her process of discovery: as the new building of the Rietberg Museum unfolds before her, the film is constantly re-energized by new explorations of the architectural space. Her image bursts, like bricks and mortar, construct moving pictures out of fragments much like the laborers build up the museum wing from under the ground." (Chris Kennedy)
"Ute Aurand's HANGING UPSIDE DOWN IN THE BRANCHES is a gentle, generous and unsparing portrait of the filmmaker's parents, whose passing is marked by remembrance and the loving recording of them." (Andréa Picard) (29.10.)