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...
- 1991
Été
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The voices say a story. forget it. Of what time. And who speaks. Both of them. One or the other. later. Others may be. Of chance. Which would...
- 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...
- 2008
P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels
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This video was made for an exhibition in Rio on Paulo Werneck, one of Oscar Niemeyer's collaborators. Werneck was the first to introduce mosaics in...
- 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.
- 2009
Tatitude
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A delightful update of Jacques Tati’s classic Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holidays). Seagulls squawk, waves crash and swimmers...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2017
DizzyMess
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Statues of dictators fall in the wind of history, a very pissed off Silvana Mangano is surrounded by scenes involving Charlie Chaplin or Harold...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...