Movies

  • 1985
    U.S.S.A.

    U.S.S.A.

    U.S.S.A.

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    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...

    U.S.S.A.
  • 2013
    CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES

    CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES

    CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES

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

    CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES
  • 1983
    Copacabana Beach

    Copacabana Beach

    Copacabana Beach

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

    Copacabana Beach
  • 2009
    The Title Was Shot

    The Title Was Shot

    The Title Was Shot

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

    The Title Was Shot
  • 1996
    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    Public Domain

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

    Public Domain
  • 1998
    Passages

    Passages

    Passages

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    Originally a text in fragments, more or less biographical, of different characters. Crossed stories, mixed times, memories and inventions. Coming...

    Passages
  • 2005
    Ice/Sea

    Ice/Sea

    Ice/Sea

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

    Ice/Sea
  • 2012
    A Skitsch

    A Skitsch

    A Skitsch

    02012HD

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

    A Skitsch
  • 2018
    Hiatus

    Hiatus

    Hiatus

    02018HD

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

    Hiatus
  • 1999
    Work and Progress

    Work and Progress

    Work and Progress

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    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...

    Work and Progress
  • 2009
    Tatitude

    Tatitude

    Tatitude

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    A delightful update of Jacques Tati’s classic Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holidays). Seagulls squawk, waves crash and swimmers...

    Tatitude
  • 1984
    Allers-Venues

    Allers-Venues

    Allers-Venues

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    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...

    Allers-Venues
  • 2003
    Nikita Kino

    Nikita Kino

    Nikita Kino

    02003HD

    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...

    Nikita Kino
  • 2019
    Unsound

    Unsound

    Unsound

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    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...

    Unsound
  • 2015
    Son chant

    Son chant

    Son chant

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    Going through my mini DVs shot over the past decade, I rediscovered a forgotten night sequence of Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton leaving a...

    Son chant
  • 2015
    Losing the Thread

    Losing the Thread

    Losing the Thread

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    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 a...

    Losing the Thread
  • 2008
    P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels

    P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels

    P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels

    6.52008HD

    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...

    P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels
  • 1970
    Portraits / Mirrors

    Portraits / Mirrors

    Portraits / Mirrors

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    A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann...

    Portraits / Mirrors
  • 2016
    But Elsewhere Is Always Better

    But Elsewhere Is Always Better

    But Elsewhere Is Always Better

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

    But Elsewhere Is Always Better
  • 1988
    Mansfield K.

    Mansfield K.

    Mansfield K.

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    "Readings. A place. Purity of lines. Fine angles. Dominance of whites and blues. Fragility of tapered glasses." A visual evocation of the writing of...

    Mansfield K.