Vivian Ostrovsky (born on November 17th 1945 in New York, United States) is an experimental filmmaker and curator. Despite being born in New York, Ostrovsky spent most of her childhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and did her secondary studies there. She then pursued her studies in psychology and film at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She began working for Ciné-Femmes, a group which fought for feminism and its recognition. In 1980, she became a filmmaker and abandoned her career as an activist. She organized a number of festivals, one of them being Jerusalem. Ostrovsky’s films explore the theme of transit and she situates herself after French filmmaker and critic, Yann Beauvais between the “journal film” and the “collage film”.

Filmography

• 2025Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love — Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Director of Photography
• 2023Anna Bella Geiger — Director
• 2021Son chant — Self - Narrator (voice), Director
• 2019Unsound — Director
• 2018Hiatus — Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Director of Photography
• 2017DizzyMess — Director
• 2016But Elsewhere Is Always Better — Self (voice), Director, Writer
• 2015Losing the Thread — Director, Sound Editor
• 2013CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES — Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2011Wherever Was Never There — Director
• 2009Tatitude — Director, Editor, Sound, Director of Photography
• 2009The Title Was Shot — Director, Editor, Sound Editor
• 2008Don't Ring — Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2008Fone Fur Follies — Editor, Cinematography, Director, Sound Editor
• 2008P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels — Director, Sound Editor
• 2007Telepattes — Director, Sound Editor, Cinematography
• 2005Ice/Sea — Director, Editor, Sound
• 2003Nikita Kino — Self - Narrator (voice), Writer, Editor, Director, Sound Editor, Director of Photography
• 1999Work and Progress — Cinematography, Director, Editor, Sound Editor
• 1998Passages
• 1997American International Pictures — Editor, Sound, Director
• 1996Public Domain — Director, Editor
• 1995Uta Makura (Pillow Poems) — Director
• 1993Kleist
• 1992M.M. in Motion — Director, Editor, Sound Editor, Director of Photography
• 1991Été
• 1988Eat — Director, Editor, Sound Editor
• 1988Mansfield K.
• 1987*** — Director
• 1985U.S.S.A. — Director, Sound Editor, Director of Photography
• 1984Allers-Venues — Director, Sound Editor
• 1984Laure
• 1984Portraits / Mirrors
• 1983Copacabana Beach — Director, Editor, Sound Editor
• 1982Movie — Editor, Sound Editor, Director
• 1980Carolyn II — Cinematography
• 1980Top Ten Designers in Paris — Director
• Plunge — Director

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2026V.O por F.P — Self
• 2001Cinexpérimentaux #3: Vivian Ostrovsky — Herself