Vivian Ostrovsky Movies
- 1996
Public Domain
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Brooklyn boxers and boucing balls.Catalan dancers and Provençals dogs. The Douro, the Danube, Biarritz, Brazil. In super 8 colours and black...
- 2015
Losing the Thread
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 2018
Hiatus
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A fragmented tribute to Ukranian-Brazilian novelist and fashion journalist Clarice Lispector that interrogates the idea of 'in-betweenness', the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2012
A Skitsch
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"A sketch on skis - in memory of my father, an urban snowman [...] December 2012"
- 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...
- 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...
- 1970
Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love
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- 2023
Anna Bella Geiger
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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...
- 1988
Eat
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An observation of humans' and animals' table manners as they gulp down breakfasts, lunches, cocktails and dinners in a variety of situations.