SON CHANT

By Vivian Ostrovsky
Editing: Ruti Gadish
On the Fly Prod. 2020

12’, b/w & clr
Screening formats: Digital file – DCP
French with English subtitles

Going through my mini DVs shot over the past decade, I rediscovered a forgotten night sequence of Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton leaving a brasserie where we had dined together in Montparnasse. The excerpt stayed with me for a while.
This prompted me to focus on Chantal’s sound work in her films and her very close collaboration with cellist, Sonia Wieder-Atherton with whom she made more than 20 films.
And, since New York, Paris and Moscow were places the three of us had in common, I intertwined some of my images with hers.

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Screenings

The International Video Art Now and After, Moscow, Russia, August 2022
6° Festival Ecra, Rio De janeiro, brazil, July 2022
TRANÅS at the Fringe, TRANÅS, Sweden, July 2022
FADA ( 6ème Festival Film Autour de l’Art), Châteauvert, France, July 2022
Per Amor a les arts, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, May 2022
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, USA, May 2022
Dock of the Bay, San Sebastian, May 2022
BAFICI 23, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2022
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM, USA, May 2022
Fisura, Durango, Mexico April 2022
Cosmic Rays film festival, The Forest Theater, NC, USA, April 2022
19 Festival de cortos de Bogota, Columbia, December 2021
Festival documentaire traces de vies, Clermont Ferrand, France, November 2021
XXIVe Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Toulouse France, November 2021
Brussels Art Film Festival, Bruxelles, Belgium, November 2021
Corsica.doc, Ajaccio, France, October 2021
Riga International Film Festival, Riga, Latvia, October 2021
Split Film Festival, Croatia, September 2021
West Sound Film Festival,Bremerton, WA, USA, August 2021
Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2021
Sheffield doc/fest, U.K June 2021
67. International short film festival , Oberhausen, Germany, May 2021