But elsewhere is always better
Mais ailleurs c’est toujours mieux
by Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit: Ruti Gadish
On the Fly Prod 2016
4’, b/w & clr
Screening formats: Digital file – DCP
English Subtitles
A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with
their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of Chantal Akerman, the
filmmaker remembers a few moments that illustrate Chantal’s personality. Forty years
of friendship condensed into four minutes…
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ScreeningsBut elsewhere is always better – 2016
Festival de l’histoire de l’art, Fontainebleau, France, June 2023
FADA ( 6ème Festival Film Autour de l’Art), Châteauvert, France, July 2022
FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR #17 • self-portrait – Re:voir, Paris, France, February 2022
FICUNAM, Retrospectiva Chantal Akerman , Mexico city, March 2020
FIAF – French Institute Manhattan, New York, New York, USA, March 2020
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, November & December 2019
Museum Judengasse, Frankfurt, Germany, November 2019
Barbican London, UK, September 2019
Cine de Artistas, Doc Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2019
Videoex, Zurich, Switzerland, May 2019
Festival contre nature, Marseille, France, July 2018
Festival printemps lesbien, Toulouse, France, April 2018
London International Documentary Festival, London, UK, November 2017
Invideo Festival, Milan, Italy, November 2017
Festcurtas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 2017
Message to man, St Peterburg, Russia, September 2017
Curtas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2017
Curtas, Vila do Conde, Portugal, July 2017
Sorsi Corti, Palermo, Italy, May 2017
Experiments in cinema, Albuquerque, USA, April 2017
Rencontres internationales Paris / Berlin, March and June 2017
International Film Festival Zoom – Zblizenia, Jelenia Gora, Poland, February 2017
Close Up, London, United Kingdom, February 2017
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany, January 2017
Curtacinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2016
Zinebi, Bilbao, Spain, November 2016
Festival international du film de Bruxelles, Belgium, November 2016
Family film project festival, Porto, Portugal, November 2016
Jornadas de reapropiacion, Mexico, Mexico, November 2016
Kassel documentary film and video festival, Kassel, Germany, November 2016
Viennale, Wien, Austria, October 2016
Women make waves films festival, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2016
Antenna documentary film festival, Sydney, Australia, October 2016
Kumu art film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia, September 2016
Chantal Akerman: New York Remembers: Lincoln Center, New York, USA, March 2016