Vivian Ostrovsky

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Vivian Ostrovsky (born November 17, 1945 in New York City ) is an American experimental filmmaker and curator .

life and work

Vivian Ostrovsky was born in New York City (USA) and grew up in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She later moved to Paris and graduated from the Institut de Psychologie with a bachelor's degree . Later she began to study film at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. She was a student of Henri Langlois at the Cinémathèque Française and Éric Rohmer at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie.

In the 1970s, together with Rosine Grange, she founded the non-profit organization Ciné-Femmes International (original name: Femmes / Media), which campaigned for the promotion, distribution and broadcasting of the works of women filmmakers. During its active years (1975–1979), the organization tried to create more opportunities for the distribution and broadcasting of the works of women filmmakers. It was the only organization in France at the time organizing screenings, programs and symposia focusing on women’s filmmaking and the image of women in film. It showed and distributed documentaries, features, animated shorts and experimental films by women where requested long before formats like VHS and DVD emerged. In 1975, the International Year of Women proclaimed by the UN General Assembly, Ostrovsky, together with Esta Marshall, organized an important women's film festival in Paris (Femmes / Films) and an international symposium - Women in Film - under the auspices of UNESCO . This event took place in Saint-Vincent in the Aosta Valley with participants such as Susan Sontag , Agnès Varda , Helma Sanders -Brahms, Chantal Akerman , Mai Zetterling , Márta Mészáros , Valie Export and María Luisa Bemberg . The international association Film Women International emerged from this event.

In 1980 Ostrovsky began making her first experimental films. She made her debut film, Carolyn 2, about choreographer Carolyn Carlson , co-directed with Martine Rousset. Since then, Ostrovsky has made over 30 films, mostly in Super-8 format, in which she often integrated found footage and newsreel stocks, excerpts from feature films and documentaries, and personal amateur films. According to the French experimental filmmaker Yann Beauvais, Ostrovsky's films combine two experimental film genres - the film diary and the film collage - into a genre of their own, which Beauvais calls "journal-mosaïque". Since her films cross countries, cultures and topics, they are often referred to as "nomadic".

Since 2011 she has also been creating installations consisting of multiple projections on different surfaces. These primarily site-specific and short-lived works are immersive and are projected in the dark. They were presented in Israel (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem), Portugal (Vila do Conde, Lisbon) and Austria (Kunsthaus Graz) together with Ostrovsky's editor and collaborator Ruti Gadish.

Ostrovsky's films have been shown at the following locations, among others: Center Georges Pompidou (Paris - retrospective), MAM (Rio de Janeiro - retrospective), MoMA (New York), Hirshhorn Museum (Washington), Musée du Louvre (Paris), Musée d ' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , Kunsthalle Basel , as well as at major film festivals in Toronto , London , Berlin , Rotterdam , Vienna (Viennale) , Locarno and New York (Tribeca Film Festival). Her works have been acquired for collections and archives: MoMA (New York), Center Georges Pompidou (Paris), Friends of the German Kinemathek (Berlin), French Foreign Ministry (for French cultural institutes worldwide).

In the wake of her father, George Ostrovsky, a co-founder of the Jerusalem Film Center in Israel, Vivian is an active board member and co-curator of the Jerusalem Film Festival organized annually by the Jerusalem Cinematheque . She is also a board member of Film Forum, a not-for-profit independent art house cinema in New York.

In addition, Ostrovsky is the curator of film programs for the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB) in Rio de Janeiro, has composed various radio plays for the French radio station France Culture (Ateliers de Création Radiophonique) and wrote a children's book with her sister Rose Ostrovsky ( MUMPS ! )

Movies

  • Carolyn 2 (1980) about the choreographer Carolyn Carlson , co-directed with Martine Rousset
  • Top Ten Stylists (1980) with Thierry Mugler , Issey Miyake , Karl Lagerfeld etc., co-directed with Soft Ware Prod.
  • Movie (VO) (1982)
  • Copacabana Beach (1983)
  • Allers Venues (1984)
  • Stalingrad (1984), installation for "Le Génie de la Bastille"
  • USSA (1985)
  • * * * (Trois Etoiles) (1987)
  • Propos Décousus (1987) Expanded Super 8
  • Eat (1988)
  • MM in Motion (1992)
  • Uta Makura (Pillow Poems) (1995)
  • Public Domain (1996)
  • American International Pictures (1995)
  • Interview with Woody Allen for the Jerusalem Film Festival (1997)
  • Work and Progress (1999) co-directed with Yann Beauvais
  • Nikita Kino (2002)
  • Ice / Sea (2005)
  • Télépattes (2007)
  • Fone Fur Follies (2008)
  • Ne Pas Sonner (2008)
  • The Title Was Shot (2009)
  • Tatitude (2009)
  • PW - Painéis e Pincéis (2010)
  • Ocean Bazar (2011) 16mm installation
  • Wherever Was Never There (2011)
  • CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES (2013)
  • Splash (2013) 16mm installation
  • Losing the Thread (2014)
  • On Dizziness (2016) video installation
  • But Elsewhere is Always Better (2016)
  • DizzyMess (2017)
  • Hiatus (2018)
  • Unsound (2019)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ciné Les coupes de décollés Vivian Ostrovsky. April 5, 2019, accessed on March 1, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ Ciné-Femmes International . In: Les cahiers du GRIF . tape 23 , no. 1 , 1978, p. 184-184 ( persee.fr [accessed March 1, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Light Cone - Vivian OSTROVSKY. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Jacqueline Aubenas: Les femmes et le cinéma . In: Les cahiers du GRIF . tape 7 , no. 1 , 1975, p. 45–47 , doi : 10.3406 / grif.1975.998 ( persee.fr [accessed March 1, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Nikita Kino - Tënk. Retrieved March 1, 2020 (French).
  6. ^ Bouhours, Jean-Michel,: L'art du mouvement: collection cinématographique du Musée national d'art modern 1919-1996 catalog . Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85850-902-6 .
  7. ↑ Melanie Goodfellow2018-07-27T10: 16: 00 + 01: 00: "She didn't play by the rules": Jerusalem retrospective looks at Chantal Akerman's career. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ 20ème anniversaire de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl: ARRET SUR NUAGE. Retrieved March 1, 2020 (French).

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personal data
SURNAME Ostrovsky, Vivian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American experimental filmmaker and curator
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City