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Vivian Ostrovsky

Vivian Ostrovsky

Director · Born 1945-11-17 · Manhattan, New York, USA

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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”.

Directed

  1. P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels (2008) — Director
  2. Ice/Sea (2005) — Director
  3. Nikita Kino (2003) — Director
  4. U.S.S.A. (1985) — Director
  5. Work and Progress (1999) — Director
  6. Movie (1982) — Director
  7. Uta Makura (Pillow Poems) (1995) — Director
  8. CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES (2013) — Director
  9. Son chant (2021) — Director
  10. Plunge — Director
  11. But Elsewhere Is Always Better (2016) — Director
  12. Copacabana Beach (1983) — Director
  13. Allers-Venues (1984) — Director
  14. Eat (1988) — Director
  15. M.M. in Motion (1992) — Director
  16. Public Domain (1996) — Director
  17. American International Pictures (1997) — Director
  18. Anna Bella Geiger (2023) — Director
  19. Losing the Thread (2015) — Director
  20. The Title Was Shot (2009) — Director
  21. DizzyMess (2017) — Director
  22. Telepattes (2007) — Director
  23. Fone Fur Follies (2008) — Director
  24. Hiatus (2018) — Director
  25. Tatitude (2009) — Director
  26. Unsound (2019) — Director
  27. Wherever Was Never There (2011) — Director
  28. *** (1987) — Director
  29. Top Ten Designers in Paris (1980) — Director
  30. Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love (2025) — Director
  31. Don't Ring (2008) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Mansfield K. (1988)
  2. Nikita Kino (2003) — Self - Narrator (voice)
  3. CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES (2013) — Self - Narrator (voice)
  4. Plunge
  5. Laure (1984)
  6. Kleist (1993)
  7. Été (1991)
  8. Passages (1998)
  9. But Elsewhere Is Always Better (2016) — Self (voice)
  10. Cinexpérimentaux #3: Vivian Ostrovsky (2001) — Herself
  11. Portraits / Mirrors (1984)
  12. Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love (2025) — Narrator (voice)
  13. V.O por F.P (2026) — Self
  14. Hiatus (2018) — Self - Narrator (voice)
  15. Son chant (2021) — Self - Narrator (voice)