Vivian Ostrovsky
Born: 1945-11-17 in Manhattan, New York, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
Vivian Ostrovsky (born on November 17th 1945 in New York, United States) is an experimental filmmaker and curator. Despite being born in New York, Ostrovsky spent most of her childhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and did her secondary studies there. She then pursued her studies in psychology and film at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She began working for Ciné-Femmes, a group which fought for feminism and its recognition. In 1980, she became a filmmaker and abandoned her career as an activist. She organized a number of festivals, one of them being Jerusalem. Ostrovsky’s films explore the theme of transit and she situates herself after French filmmaker and critic, Yann Beauvais between the “journal film” and the “collage film”.
Filmography
2023
- Anna Bella Geiger ... (Director)
2021
- Son chant ... (Director)
2019
- Unsound ... (Director)
2018
- Hiatus ... (Director)
2017
- DizzyMess ... (Director)
2016
- But Elsewhere Is Always Better as Self (voice)
2015
- Losing the Thread ... (Director)
2013
- CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES ... (Director)
2012
- A Skitsch ... (Director)
2011
- Wherever Was Never There ... (Director)
2009
- The Title Was Shot ... (Director)
- Tatitude ... (Director)
2008
- Fone Fur Follies ... (Cinematography)
- Don't Ring ... (Director)
- P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels ... (Director)
2007
- Telepattes ... (Director)
2005
- Ice/Sea ... (Director)
2003
- Nikita Kino as Herself (voice)
2001
- Cinexpérimentaux #3: Vivian Ostrovsky as Herself
1999
- Work and Progress ... (Cinematography)
1998
1997
- American International Pictures ... (Editor)
1996
- Public Domain ... (Editor)
1995
- Uta Makura (Pillow Poems) ... (Director)
1993
1992
- M.M. In Motion ... (Director)
1991
1988
- Mansfield K.
- Eat ... (Director)
1987
- *** ... (Director)
1985
- U.S.S.A. ... (Director)
1984
- Allers-Venues ... (Director)
- Laure
- Portraits / Mirrors
1983
- Copacabana Beach ... (Director)
1982
- Movie ... (Editor)
1980
- Top Ten Designers in Paris ... (Director)
- Carolyn II ... (Cinematography)