Vivian Ostrovsky Movies
- 1993
Kleist
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Readings. Heinrich von Kleist / Robert Walser. Contiguous. They talk about imagination. Walser imagines Kleist, Kleist nobody, but Penthesilea. In...
- 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...
- 2015
Son chant
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Going through my mini DVs shot over the past decade, I rediscovered a forgotten night sequence of Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton leaving a...
- 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...
- 1983
Copacabana Beach
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A humorous glimpse of what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana Beach. Physical fitness, Brazilian style, with a dash of soccer...
- 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...
- 2009
The Title Was Shot
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Composed of fragments from over 25 films dating from the 1920s to the 90s. A faced-paced, heart-pounding cinephilic farce.
- 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...
- 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...
- 1988
Mansfield K.
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"Readings. A place. Purity of lines. Fine angles. Dominance of whites and blues. Fragility of tapered glasses." A visual evocation of the writing of...
- 1984
Portraits / Mirrors
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A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann...
- 2008
Fone Fur Follies
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Fone Fur Follies is the English version of Télépattes.
- 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...
- 2023
Anna Bella Geiger
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- 1992
M.M. In Motion
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"Vivian Ostrovsky's intriguing film focuses on the French dancer- choreographer Mathilde Monnier, now the director of the National Choreographic...
- 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...