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    But Elsewhere Is Always Better

    Vivian Ostrovsky 2016 USA Experimental, Documentary b/w & color 4min English DCP
    Vivian Ostrovsky met Chantal Akerman in the early 1970s, and they had been friends since then. For this film, Ostrovsky decided to mix some excerpts of Chantal's films, including Jeanne Dielman, Je, Tu, Il, Elle, Saute ma ville and others, with her own super 8 footages that illustrate Chantal’s personality. The film seeks to blend brightness and darkness, open spaces with enclosed ones, and places familiar to both filmmakers, together. This letter that Chantal never received condenses forty years of friendship into four minutes of film.

    Director

    Vivian Ostrovsky

    Vivian Ostrovsky is an experimental filmmaker. Her films have been shown at major film festivals (Berlin, Rotterdam, London, Tribeca, Viennale), and have been acquired for the collections of major art museums. She is a curator for the Jerusalem Film Festival’s Carte Blanche section which shows avant-garde and other non-mainstream films. She is on the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem Film Center, New York’s Film Forum, and the Light Cone in Paris.

    Vivian Ostrovsky

    • 2016 But elsewhere is always better《他方總是更好》

    • 2011 Wherever was never there

    • 2005 Ice: Sea 2002 Nikita Kino

    Director: Vivian Ostrovsky

    Editor: Ruti Gadish

    Music: Sonia Wieder Atherton

     

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