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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.

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit: Vivian Ostrovsky, Ruti Gadish
Sound: Vivian Ostrovsky, Ruti Gadish

Jet Lag Prod 2009
3′, Super8, b/w & clr
Screening formats: 35mm – Mini DV – Digital file

A delightful update of Jacques Tati’s classic Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holidays). Seagulls squawk, waves crash and swimmers cavort in endless summer days spent on the beach. TATITUDE suggests that sand, water and sun are the basic elements in a happy, carefree life, and maybe even the secret to eternal youth.

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit: Ruti Gadish, Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky
Sound edit: Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky

Jet Lag Prod 2009
9′, b/w & clr
Screening formats: Digital file
English Subtitles

The Title Was Shot was commissioned for a conference of film theoreticians in Berlin in 2009 entitled: The Cinematic Configurations of ‘I’ and ‘We’. Composed of fragments from over 25 films dating from the 1920s to the 90s, this mischievous short features cowboys, Indians and damsels in distress.
Tarzan, Jane, a transgender gorilla, and a menacing lion tango from frame to frame, prodded by Wittgenstein, Gilles Deleuze and Slavoj Zizek’s philosophical considerations. A fast-paced, heart-pounding cinephilic farce.

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit: Ruti Gadish, Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky
Sound edit: Ruti Gadish, Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky

Jet Lag Prod 2008
8’, cell phone film, b/w & clr
Screening formats: BETA SP PAL – Digital file
English Subtitles

Can yesterday’s icons work their magic on a cell-phone screen?
Can Alain Delon and Monica Vitti retain their aura on low resolution?
Can my own CELLuloid images mix in with?

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit: Ruti Gadish, Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky
Sound edit: Ruti Gadish, Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky

Jet Lag Prod 2008
9’, cell phone film, b/w & clr
Screening formats: BETA SP PAL – Digital file
English version

Fone Fur Follies is the English version of Télépattes.
Starring among others, two cats, a couple of dogs, a weasel, a baby bear, and a macaw.
With the likes of Gloria Swanson, Angela Davis and Marina Abramovic on the soundtrack.

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit: Ruti Gadish, Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky
Sound edit: Ruti Gadish, Claude Mercier, Vivian Ostrovsky
Titles: George Griffin

Jet Lag Prod 2007
9’,  Cell phone film, b/w & clr
French Version

Télépattes is a bit of feline rhetorical fantasy.
Starring among others, two cats, a couple of dogs, a weasel, a baby bear, a macaw and other creatures.
Voices: Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Sarah Kofman.
First shown in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, the film was commissioned by the Pocket Film Festival and was made entirely on a mobile phone.

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit, Sound edit: Vivian Ostrovsky, François Sculier, Ruti Gadish
Animation: George Griffin

Jet Lag Prod 2005
31′, Super8, mini DV, 16mm, b/w & clr
Screening formats: 16mm – Digital file – DCP

A celluloid aperitif for the summer combining found footage of seashores using the filmmaker’s own archive of coastal material.
Fun and free-associative, the movie ventures to Rio, Miami, Montpellier, the Dead Sea, the Black Sea, and elsewhere, keeping a visual diary of sun-seekers, boardwalk architecture, and celebrity sightings.
A beach extravaganza starring, suicidal skiers, soaking tigers, plunging mermaids and much more.

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit, Sound edit: Vivian Ostrovsky, François Sculier.
Animation: George Griffin

Jet Lag Prod 2002
40’, 16mm, b/w & clr
Screening formats: 16mm –  Digital file – DCP
English and French version

The film is a travelogue of sorts.
In 1960 my family lived in Brazil when my father discovered his sister and brother in Moscow, who he hadn’t seen for 40 years, were still alive. Since they couldn’t leave the USSR we went to visit them regularly for about 15 years. At the time I had my 8mm then a super 8 camera with which I filmed the family, our outings, picnics, markets and their homes…
I decided to use this material, which was not very interesting per se, by mixing it with Soviet found-footage of the same period (1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s). I used feature films, propaganda footage, newsreels, etc. The result is a kind of Khruschev-era mix with a collage of Soviet music and a voice-over of my memories of the Cold War period.

By Yann Beauvais, Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit, Sound edit: Yann Beauvais, Vivian Ostrovsky

Jet Lag Prod 1999
12’, 35mm, b/w & clr
Screening formats : 35mm – 16mm – Digital file

A trip to Russia by two filmmakers, in 1990, ends up in a twin- screen projection using their super 8 footage mixed in with archival material and a sprinkling of classics such as Vertov and Eisenstein.

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit and Sound : Vivian Ostrovsky, François Sculier
Jet Lag Prod 1997
5′, b/w & clr
Screening formats: 16mm – Digital file – DCP

Absorb these images, « breathing slowly, quietly, and very calmly.
Sinking softly, silently… »
Drift into a relaxing reverie.