27th of December 2020 - Online Screening via Vimeo

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Vivian Ostrovsky, (b.1945, New York) grew up in Rio, studied film studies and psychology in Paris. When she started filming in 1980, she focused on using analog formats - especially Super8 - for experimental cinema. Her signature collage shorts and avant-garde documentaries have been shown at the main film festivals (Berlin, Rotterdam, Viennale, Tribeca) and have been part of collections such as the MOMA, NY, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek in Berlin. Her moving image work is noted for its span of super 8, 16mm, video and digital media, found footage and immersive installations. Her films are connected to Latin America and more particularly Brazil. Whether more personal or historical projects, they are always infused with dreamlike playfulness and intimate nostalgia.

She is a curator for the Jerusalem Film Festival's Carte Blanche section which shows avant-garde, innovative documentaries and other independent non-mainstream films. She is currently involved in her next film, a non-conventional documentary centered around US poet Elizabeth Bishop's 15 plus years lived in Brazil.

 

Programme:

- Special Introduction by the filmmaker herself
- Losing the thread (2014) - 8'20''
- The Title was shot (2009) - 9'
- Nikita Kino (2002) - 40

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*still from Nikita Kino (2002)