Vivian Ostrovsky Movies
- 1999
Work and Progress
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A trip to Russia by two filmmakers in 1990, forms the bulk of this twin-screen projection, finished some 9 years later; Their super-8 footage mixed...
- 2008
Fone Fur Follies
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Fone Fur Follies is the English version of Télépattes.
- 1998
Passages
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Originally a text in fragments, more or less biographical, of different characters. Crossed stories, mixed times, memories and inventions. Coming...
- 2016
But Elsewhere Is Always Better
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A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of...
- 1985
U.S.S.A.
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USA + USSR = USSA. My film is about blurred boundaries, probably due to my own personal history. I was born in New York, to Russian and Czech...
- 2005
Ice/Sea
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Funny collage of sea, sun and ice. A show from the beach with skiers, tigers, mermaids and much more.
- 1984
Laure
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An unknown writer written under the pseudonym of Laure at the beginning of the century. Readings. Geography. The places of a writing. The forces that...
- 2003
Nikita Kino
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The film is a travelogue of sorts. Ostrovsky’s personal family footage meets the archives of Soviet propaganda footage. The result is a kind of...
- 1980
Carolyn II
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Portrait. She dances in the center of her area. Obscure to the look. She abandons us to her limit. Turn. Count the chips. Conjugate. Turn on...
- 1988
Eat
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An observation of humans' and animals' table manners as they gulp down breakfasts, lunches, cocktails and dinners in a variety of situations.
- 1984
Allers-Venues
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A month in the country. In summer, a group of friends rent a house in southern France. People come and go, making their way through chickens, dogs...
- 2007
Telepattes
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A felinosophy of life.
- 2012
A Skitsch
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"A sketch on skis - in memory of my father, an urban snowman [...] December 2012"
- 1982
Movie
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With a super 8 camera from Paris to Berlin, from Amsterdam to Rio, from Jerusalem to New York shooting only at night. Hungarian crooners, Indian...
- 2013
CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES
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Based on a correspondence between Brazilian artist Ione Saldanha and the filmmaker, this portrait was made for an exhibition at the MAM (Museum of...
- 2023
Anna Bella Geiger
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- 2019
Unsound
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A Russian can say, “I hear the smell…” A maestro has a vision of what a symphony should sound like. In a silent film how can one...
- 2011
Wherever Was Never There
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An intimate film made on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Vivian Ostrovsky's father, Rehor Ostrovsky’s death. The film is pasted...
- 2015
Losing the Thread
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Starting out with super 8 reels of Paris catwalks I shot in 1979/1980, what was supposed to be an experimental short on couture culture turned into a...
- 2018
Hiatus
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A fragmented tribute to Ukranian-Brazilian novelist and fashion journalist Clarice Lispector that interrogates the idea of 'in-betweenness', the...