Vivian Ostrovsky Trailers
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Vivian Ostrovsky (born on November 17th 1945 in New York, United States) is an experimental filmmaker and curator. Despite being born in New York, Ostrovsky spent most of her childhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and did her secondary studies there. She then pursued her studies in psychology and film at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She began working for Ciné-Femmes, a group which fought for feminism and its recognition. In 1980, she became a filmmaker and abandoned her career as an activist. She organized a number of festivals, one of them being Jerusalem.
Ostrovsky’s films explore the theme of transit and she situates herself after French filmmaker and critic, Yann Beauvais between the “journal film” and the “collage film”.
Most Popular Vivian Ostrovsky Trailers
Total trailers found: 39
19 June 2005
Funny collage of sea, sun and ice. A show from the beach with skiers, tigers, mermaids and much more.
01 January 2011
An intimate film made on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Vivian Ostrovsky's father, Rehor Ostrovsky’s death.
29 October 1991
The voices say a story. forget it. Of what time. And who speaks. Both of them. One or the other. later.
01 January 2007
A felinosophy of life.
01 January 1988
An observation of humans' and animals' table manners as they gulp down breakfasts, lunches, cocktails and dinners in a variety of situations.
01 September 2019
A Russian can say, “I hear the smell…” A maestro has a vision of what a symphony should sound like.
01 April 1988
"Readings. A place. Purity of lines. Fine angles. Dominance of whites and blues. Fragility of tapered glasses.
01 January 2017
Statues of dictators fall in the wind of history, a very pissed off Silvana Mangano is surrounded by scenes involving Charlie Chaplin or Harold Lloyd, who are themselves in conversation with Truffaut's 400 Blows and Medvedkine's Happiness.
01 January 1998
Originally a text in fragments, more or less biographical, of different characters. Crossed stories, mixed times, memories and inventions.
01 January 2008
This video was made for an exhibition in Rio on Paulo Werneck, one of Oscar Niemeyer's collaborators.
01 December 2012
"A sketch on skis - in memory of my father, an urban snowman [...] December 2012"
04 May 1993
Readings. Heinrich von Kleist / Robert Walser. Contiguous. They talk about imagination. Walser imagines Kleist, Kleist nobody, but Penthesilea.
01 January 2008
Fone Fur Follies is the English version of Télépattes.
01 March 1999
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 in with archival material (and a sprinkling of the classics such as Vertov and Eisenstein).
23 June 1980
Portrait. She dances in the center of her area. Obscure to the look. She abandons us to her limit. Turn.
01 January 1984
An unknown writer written under the pseudonym of Laure at the beginning of the century. Readings. Geography.
01 January 1984
A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Gérard Courant, Berndt Deprez, Bertrand Gadenne, Mythia Kolésar, Christian Lebrat, Stéphane Marti, Pascal Martin, Michel Nedjar, Dominique Noguez, Vivian Ostrovsky, Bernard Roué, Martine Rousset, Alain Sayag, Unglee, and Catherine Zbinden.
01 March 2016
A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s.
28 November 1983
A humorous glimpse of what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana Beach. Physical fitness, Brazilian style, with a dash of soccer and hints of Carmen Miranda.
01 August 2009
A delightful update of Jacques Tati’s classic Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holidays). Seagulls squawk, waves crash and swimmers cavort in endless summer days spent on the beach.
01 February 2003
"The film is a travelogue of sorts. In 1960 my family lived in Brazil when my father discovered his sister and brother in Moscow, who he hadn't seen for 40 years, were still alive.
01 May 2021
"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 brasserie where we had dined together in Montparnasse.
01 May 2015
"Super 8 reels of Paris catwalks I shot in 1979/1980 were supposed to become an experimental short meditation on couture culture.
01 January 2013
Based on a correspondence between Brazilian artist Ione Saldanha and the filmmaker, this portrait was made for an exhibition at the MAM (Museum of Modern Art) in Rio de Janeiro.
10 January 1982
With a super 8 camera from Paris to Berlin, from Amsterdam to Rio, from Jerusalem to New York shooting only at night.
07 August 2018
A fragmented tribute to Ukranian-Brazilian novelist and fashion journalist Clarice Lispector that interrogates the idea of "in-betweenness," the intermission, a hiatus.
01 March 1992
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 performances.
07 March 1995
In 10th. Century Japan, Sei Shonagon, lady-in-waiting to the Empress, wrote of the goings-on at the Japanese court.
14 June 2008
In this narrative, scenes from film classics by Antonioni, Truffaut and others have a common theme of phone calls, yet the telephone assumes another role, that of an intimate camera that records scenes from the present, communicating with the images from the history of cinematography, calling them by phone.
01 January 2009
The Title Was Shot was commissioned for a conference of film theoreticians in Berlin in 2009 entitled: The Cinematic Configurations of 'I' and 'We.
01 January 1985
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 parents, raised in Brazil and educated in France.
01 November 1996
Brooklyn boxers and boucing balls.Catalan dancers and Provençals dogs. The Douro, the Danube, Biarritz, Brazil.
17 December 1984
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 and cats.
01 February 1997
Absorb these images, “breathing slowly, quietly, and very calmly.
Sinking softly, silently…”
Drift into a relaxing reverie.
01 January 1980
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.
01 January 2001
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 1980.
