Vivan Ostrovsky
Plunge 2
Format VOD
Original format 16mm, Super 8, HD
Year 1982-2014
Language(s) French, English
Artist(s) Vivian Ostrovsky
Subtitles English, French
Running time 81 min, 111min
Films
ALLERS-VENUES (1984) 14'
LOSING THE THREAD (2014) 9'
MOVIE (V.O.) (1982) 9'
THE TITLE WAS SHOT (2009) 9'
WHEREVER WAS NEVER THERE (2011) 7'
P.W. PAINTBRUSHES AND PANELS (2010) 16'
CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES (2013) 12'
COPACABANA BEACH (1983) 10'
Description
"Playing with images and sounds, Vivian Ostrovsky manages to outwit many of cinema's artifices (experimental or otherwise), always without seeming to. Effortlessly, she disrupts and attempts to transform our cinematic habits—I was going to say culinary, thinking once again of the importance of this relationship, previously developed by Kubelka, between cooking and cinema; a question of dosage and know-how. An art of accompaniment.."
— Yann Beauvais
"An intimate—yet not without humor—act of cultural resistance, Vivian Ostrovsky's cinema is a gesture that engages the filmmaker's entire body: she travels the world, carrying her equipment, framing with a camera-eye. She draws from the archives an immense repertoire of cinematic gestures accomplished by others—and mischievously assembles them with her own Super-8 images. Multiculturalism and polyglotism intertwine in this poetics of displacement."
— Bérénice Reynaud