Vivian Ostrovsky Movies

  • 1984
    Portraits / Mirrors

    Portraits / Mirrors

    Portraits / Mirrors

    01984HD

    A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann...

    Portraits / Mirrors
  • 2021
    Son chant

    Son chant

    Son chant

    02021HD

    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...

    Son chant
  • 2003
    Nikita Kino

    Nikita Kino

    Nikita Kino

    02003HD

    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...

    Nikita Kino
  • 2016
    But Elsewhere Is Always Better

    But Elsewhere Is Always Better

    But Elsewhere Is Always Better

    02016HD

    A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of...

    But Elsewhere Is Always Better
  • 1982
    Movie

    Movie

    Movie

    61982HD

    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...

    Movie
  • 1980
    Carolyn II

    Carolyn II

    Carolyn II

    01980HD

    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...

    Carolyn II
  • 2025
    Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love

    Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love

    Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love

    02025HD

    Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love
  • 1992
    M.M. In Motion

    M.M. In Motion

    M.M. In Motion

    01992HD

    "Vivian Ostrovsky's intriguing film focuses on the French dancer- choreographer Mathilde Monnier, now the director of the National Choreographic...

    M.M. In Motion
  • 1996
    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    01996HD

    Brooklyn boxers and boucing balls.Catalan dancers and Provençals dogs. The Douro, the Danube, Biarritz, Brazil. In super 8 colours and black...

    Public Domain
  • 1988
    Mansfield K.

    Mansfield K.

    Mansfield K.

    91988HD

    "Readings. A place. Purity of lines. Fine angles. Dominance of whites and blues. Fragility of tapered glasses." A visual evocation of the writing of...

    Mansfield K.
  • 2005
    Ice/Sea

    Ice/Sea

    Ice/Sea

    02005HD

    Funny collage of sea, sun and ice. A show from the beach with skiers, tigers, mermaids and much more.

    Ice/Sea
  • 1998
    Passages

    Passages

    Passages

    01998HD

    Originally a text in fragments, more or less biographical, of different characters. Crossed stories, mixed times, memories and inventions. Coming...

    Passages
  • 2015
    Losing the Thread

    Losing the Thread

    Losing the Thread

    02015HD

    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...

    Losing the Thread
  • 2007
    Telepattes

    Telepattes

    Telepattes

    02007HD

    A felinosophy of life.

    Telepattes
  • 1995
    Uta Makura (Pillow Poems)

    Uta Makura (Pillow Poems)

    Uta Makura (Pillow Poems)

    01995HD

    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...

    Uta Makura (Pillow Poems)
  • 1999
    Work and Progress

    Work and Progress

    Work and Progress

    01999HD

    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...

    Work and Progress
  • 1991
    Été

    Été

    Été

    01991HD

    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...

    Été
  • 1987
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    01987HD

    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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  • 2023
    Anna Bella Geiger

    Anna Bella Geiger

    Anna Bella Geiger

    02023HD

    Anna Bella Geiger
  • 1980
    Top Ten Designers in Paris

    Top Ten Designers in Paris

    Top Ten Designers in Paris

    01980HD

    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...

    Top Ten Designers in Paris