M.M. IN MOTION

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit, Sound edit: Vivian Ostrovsky, François Sculier
Super8 images: Vivian Ostrovsky
16 mm images: Nurith Aviv

Jet Lag Prod 1992
45′, 16mm, b/w & clr
Screening formats: 16mm – Digital file
Subtitles: English

35′, 16mm, b/w & clr
Screening formats: Digital file
French

M.M. IN MOTION was four years in the making and draws upon Ostrovsky’s filming of six Monnier choreographies (from 1988 to 1991) in rehearsals and performances. M.M. attempts to translate Monnier’s essence, style and humor into cinematic terms using fragmentary, episodic and impressionistic images that capture the defining traits of her modus operandi.

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Screenings

M. M. in Motion – 1992

Mostra De Filmes – Programa Maya Deren, Cinema e dança, Avenida Paulista Sao Paolo, Brasil, May 2022
57ème Edition du festival Confrontation “FILMER LE CORPS”, Institut Jean Vigo, Perpignan, France, May 2022
International Dance Day at Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, April 2020
Mois du film documentaire, Centre Pompidou, Paris, November 2015
Women make waves film festival, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2005
Temps d’Images, Centro cultural do Belem, Portugal, October 2003
Lincoln Center, New York, USA December 1995
Centre culturel français de Moscou, Film inaugural de Danse sur écran, Russia, October 1995
Montpellier Danse, Montpellier, France, July 1995
MoMA, “Experimental shorts Dissolution/6 solutions 1990-1995”, New York, USA April 1995
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, USA, April 1995
Le Louvre, Paris, France, October 1994
London Film festival, UK, November 1992
Videodanse, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, November 1992
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 1992
Festival International de film de Femmes, Creteil, France, March 1992