PUBLIC DOMAIN

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Edit: Vivian Ostrovsky, François Sculier
Original soundtrack: Nicolas Frize

Jet Lag Prod 1996
13’, 16mm, b/w & clr
Screening formats: 16mm – Digital file –DCP
French with English subtitles

A freewheeling caper involving Brooklyn boxers and bouncing balls, Catalan dancers and Provençal dogs.
The Douro, the Danube, Biarritz, and Brazil are captured on legendary Kodachrome 40 super 8 film that is gone forever.
Nicolas Frize’s soundtrack uses voices from his own archives, remixed in ‘Frize-frame’ style.

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Screenings

Public Domain – 1996

Hintergrund II, Strasbourg, France, November 2019
Dead End Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, November 2017
Programming Matthias Müller “Ich etc. Auf Reisen – Travelogues” Stuttgartter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany, January 2009
Domaine de Chamarande, cycle de lms “Parcours sportif”, France, October 2005
MoMA, “Big as life: an american history of lm”, NYC, USA, March 2000
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, April 1999
Cinemathèque Française, Paris, France, October 1998
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, January 1998
Festival international du film independant de Bruxelles, Belgium, November 1997
Curtas São Paulo, Brazil, August 1997
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands, January 1997
Osnabrück Film Festival, Germany, October 1997
London Film festival, London, UK, November 1996