P.W. – PINCÉIS E PAINÉIS (P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels)
By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit: Ruti Gadish, Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky
Sound edit: Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky
Jet Lag Prod 2010
15’, b/w & clr
Screening formats: Digital file – DCP
Portuguese with English or French subtitles
The video was made for an exhibition in Rio on Paulo Werneck one of Oscar Niemeyer’s collaborators. Werneck was the first to introduce mosaics in Brazilian Modernist architecture. P.W. shows the context of the artist’s work in Rio and Belo Horizonte in the 50s and the 60s as well as Brasilia at the time of its construction in 1960. It’s an inventive collage of archival footage, music and Werneck’s modernist mosaics.
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ScreeningsP.W.- Pincéis e Painéis (P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels) – 2010
BAM, Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Rose Cinema, Brooklyn, USA, February 2022
Videoex, Zurich, Switzerland, May 2019
Ovoo Gallery, Miami Beach, USA, January 2018
ULTRAcinema, Mexico, Mexico, November 2017
Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Nantes, Nantes, France, May 2017
Caixa Cultural, Brasilia, Brazil, September 2011
Video Dumbo Film Festival, New York, USA, September 2011 Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, May 2011
London International Documentary Film Festival, London, U.K.
Rencontres internationales Paris / Berlin/ Madrid 2010- 2011, March 2011
Festival Tous courts, Aix-en-Provence, France, December 2010
Festival Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia, awarded the Sphinx Prize, December 2010
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic, October 2010
Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, August 2010
Museo Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2008