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Vivian Ostrovsky
Manhattan, New York, USA
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 chil…
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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”.
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2026
V.O por F.P
Movie Self
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2025
Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2023
Anna Bella Geiger
Movie Director
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2021
Son chant
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2019
Unsound
Movie Director
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2018
Hiatus
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2017
DizzyMess
Movie Director
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2016
But Elsewhere Is Always Better
Movie Self (voice)
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2015
Losing the Thread
Movie Director
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2013
CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2011
Wherever Was Never There
Movie Director
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2009
Tatitude
Movie Director
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2009
The Title Was Shot
Movie Director
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2008
Don't Ring
Movie Director
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2008
P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels
Movie Director
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2008
Fone Fur Follies
Movie Director
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2007
Telepattes
Movie Director
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2005
Ice/Sea
Movie Director
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2003
Nikita Kino
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2001
Cinexpérimentaux #3: Vivian Ostrovsky
Movie Herself
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1999
Work and Progress
Movie Cinematography
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1998
Passages
Movie
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1997
American International Pictures
Movie Director
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1996
Public Domain
Movie Director
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1995
Uta Makura (Pillow Poems)
Movie Director
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1993
Kleist
Movie
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1992
M.M. in Motion
Movie Director
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1991
Été
Movie
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1988
Mansfield K.
Movie
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1988
Eat
Movie Director
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1987
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Movie Director
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1985
U.S.S.A.
Movie Director
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1984
Allers-Venues
Movie Director
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1984
Portraits / Mirrors
Movie
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1984
Laure
Movie
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1983
Copacabana Beach
Movie Director
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1982
Movie
Movie Director
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1980
Carolyn II
Movie Cinematography
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1980
Top Ten Designers in Paris
Movie Director
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Plunge
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