LOSING THE THREAD

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit: Ruti Gadish
Sound edit: Ruti Gadish, Vivian Ostrovsky
Sound mix: Sharon Shama
Titles: George Griffin

On the Fly Prod 2014
8′, b/w & clr
Screening formats : DCP – Digital file on server

Super 8 reels of Paris catwalks I shot in 1979/1980 were supposed to become an experimental short meditation on couture culture. Its authority has unraveled some since and Deleuze’s definition of style: “creating a foreign language in one’s own language,” encouraged me to loosen the threads of this pursuit. To ponder how fashion and style are interwoven but also influenced by individual flare and whimsy, I stitched together Coco Chanel, Courrèges, Cole Porter and Kaiser Karl with vintage film moments. Then, as now, to grasp the whole cloth of this interface involves finding, but also Losing the Thread…

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Screenings

Losing the thread – 2014

Contemporary Film Centre – Found Footage, Nicosia, Cyprus, February 2020
Les Irrecuperables, online film festival, November 2019
Cyprus Contemporary Film Center, Nicosia, September 2019
Videoex, Zurich, Switzerland, May 2019
Open Air Film festival, Weiterstadt, Germany, August 2016 International Frauen Filmfestival Dortmund Köln, Germany, April 2016
Les Irrécupérables, Paris, France, May 2016
Strangloscope Florianopolis, Brazil, April 2016
Ozark shorts, Ozark, USA, April 2016
CineAutopsia, Bogota experimental lm festival, Colombia, April 2016 ZINEBI, Bilbao, Spain, November 2015
Jornadas de Réapropriación – cine reciclado y found footage, Mexico, October 2015
Invideo, Milano, Italy, November 2015
Women make waves, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2015
Festival nouveau cinema, Montréal, Canada, October 2015 Videomedeja festival, Novi Sad, Serbia, September 2015