Vivian Ostrovsky Movies
- 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...
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- 2008

Fone Fur Follies
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Fone Fur Follies is the English version of Télépattes.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 2015

Losing the Thread
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"Super 8 reels of Paris catwalks I shot in 1979/1980 were supposed to become an experimental short meditation on couture culture. Its authority has...
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- 1992

M.M. in Motion
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M.M. IN MOTION was four years in the making and draws upon Ostrovsky's filming of six Monnier choreographies (from 1988 to 1991) in rehearsals and...
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- 2009

The Title Was Shot
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The Title Was Shot was commissioned for a conference of film theoreticians in Berlin in 2009 entitled: The Cinematic Configurations of 'I' and 'We.'...
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- 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...
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- 2025

Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love
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- 1997

American International Pictures
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Absorb these images, “breathing slowly, quietly, and very calmly. Sinking softly, silently…” Drift into a relaxing reverie.
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- 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...
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- 1995

Uta Makura (Pillow Poems)
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In 10th. Century Japan, Sei Shonagon, lady-in-waiting to the Empress, wrote of the goings-on at the Japanese court. Fearing vengeance, she hid these...
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- 2008

Don't Ring
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In this narrative, scenes from film classics by Antonioni, Truffaut and others have a common theme of phone calls, yet the telephone assumes another...
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- 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...
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- 2023

Anna Bella Geiger
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- 2001

Cinexpérimentaux #3: Vivian Ostrovsky
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Vivian Ostrovsky is a nomad film-maker, born in New York. Student in Brazil then in Paris, which takes its camera of continent in continent since...
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- 1987

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Sarah and Paul leave their native California once a year to eat their way through France. They test the Michelin guide’s recommendations for...
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- 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...
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- 1980

Top Ten Designers in Paris
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It was made by a group of filmmakers- three men and three women- just to catch a glimpse of a stylish milieu unknown to most. Enticing top models...
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