THE TITLE WAS SHOT

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.

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Screenings

The Title was shot – 2009

XXV Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Toulouse, France, April 2022
Over The Real, Festival Internazionale di Videoarte Lucca, Italy, September 2020
« Collective is near », International video festival Now&After April to May 2019
Molodist Kyiv international lm festival, Ukraine, October 2010
Video Dumbo Festival, New York, USA, September 2010
Instants Vidéo, La Ciotat, France, September 2010
International Festival Signes de Nuit, Centre Culturel français de Djakarta, Indonesia, July 2010
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Berlin, Germany, June 2010
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Madrid, Spain, April 2010
International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, France April 2010
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany, January 2010
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Paris, France, December 2009
Zinebi, Bilbao, Spain, awarded the Silver Mikeldi for documentary, November 2009
Curta cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2009
MIS (Museu da Imagem e do som), São Paulo, Brazil, November 2009
Raindance International Film Festival, London, U.K., October 2009
Freie Universität Berlin – Symposium entitled “The cinematic configurations of ‘I’ and ‘WE’”, Germany, March 2009