Work and Progress

Work and Progress

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...

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Nikita Kino

Nikita Kino

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...

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The Title Was Shot

The Title Was Shot

Composed of fragments from over 25 films dating from the 1920s to the 90s. A faced-paced, heart-pounding cinephilic farce.

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Ice/Sea

Ice/Sea

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

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CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES

CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES

Based on a correspondence between Brazilian artist Ione Saldanha and the filmmaker, this portrait was made for an exhibition at the MAM (Museum of...

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Public Domain

Public Domain

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

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Tatitude

Tatitude

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...

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But Elsewhere Is Always Better

But Elsewhere Is Always Better

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

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Copacabana Beach

Copacabana Beach

A humorous glimpse of what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana Beach. Physical fitness, Brazilian style, with a dash of...

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U.S.S.A.

U.S.S.A.

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...

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Allers-Venues

Allers-Venues

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...

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A Skitsch

A Skitsch

"A sketch on skis - in memory of my father, an urban snowman [...] December 2012"

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Eat

Eat

An observation of humans' and animals' table manners as they gulp down breakfasts, lunches, cocktails and dinners in a variety of situations.

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Losing the Thread

Losing the Thread

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...

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Movie

Movie

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...

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Hiatus

Hiatus

A fragmented tribute to Ukranian-Brazilian novelist and fashion journalist Clarice Lispector that interrogates the idea of 'in-betweenness', the...

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Wherever Was Never There

Wherever Was Never There

An intimate film made on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Vivian Ostrovsky's father, Rehor Ostrovsky’s death. The film is pasted together...

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Telepattes

Telepattes

A felinosophy of life.

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P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels

P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels

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...

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Unsound

Unsound

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 make the...

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