Time and Time Again – Shorts by Vivian Ostrovsky

‘An intimate – yet humorous – act of cultural resistance, the cinema of Vivian Ostrovsky is a gesture, involving the filmmaker’s entire body – as she travels around the world, carrying the gear and framing/gathering images with a Super-8 camera… An anti-travelogue of sorts, the program will take a viewer on a serendipitous voyage in time and space and history to include films from the early 80s to Ostrovsky’s more recent work.’ Bérénice Reynaud for Redcat

Guest film: Time

Dir.: Ruti Gadish Ph.: Micha Rozen Ed.: Ayelet Ofarim Original Score: Tamar Gur | 1994 | 16 min. | Jerusalem Film & Television School |The initial question was: 'What is time for you?'

Past Tenth

Dir. & Ed.: Vivian Ostrovsky | 1993 | clr & b/w | 14 min. | no dialogue| Jet Lag Prod.  | The playful first ten years of the Jerusalem Film Festival summarized in 14 min.

Unsound

Dir.: Vivian Ostrovsky Ed.: Ruti Gadish | 2019 | clr & b/w | 4 min. | no dialogue | On the Fly Prod. | In a silent film how can one make the spectator see the sound?

Tatitude

Dir.: Vivian Ostrovsky Ed.: Ruti Gadish | 2009 | clr & b/w | 4 min. | French | Jet Lag Prod. | A delightful update of Jacques Tati’s classic Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holidays).

Movie (V.O.)

Dir., Ed. & Sound: Vivian Ostrovsky Ed.: Gisèle Meichler Sound: Patrick Genêt | 1982 | clr | 10 min. | no dialogue | Jet Lag Prod. | With a super 8 camera shooting night scenes only: Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rio, Jerusalem, New York.

Allers -Venues

Dir., Ed. & Sound: Vivian Ostrovsky Ed.: Gisèle Meichler Sound: Patrick Genêt | 1984 | clr & b/w | 15 min. |no dialogue | Jet Lag Prod. | In summer, a group of women friends rent a house in the Provence...

Hiatus

Dir.: Vivian Ostrovsky Ed.: Ruti Gadish | 2018 | clr & b/w | 6min. | Portuguese & English | On the Fly Prod. | The reclusive, introspective Ukrainian – Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920 – 1977) is the protagonist. It is based on What she says in the 1977 interview is still very pertinent and corresponds to a feeling of ‘in-betweenness’ which I myself feel today. An interview broadcast only after her death is the starting point for this tribute to Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector.