VIVIAN OSTROVSKY - PLUNGE

"An intimate – yet humorous – act of cultural resistance, the cinema of Vivian Ostrovsky is a gesture, implying the filmmaker’s entire body – as she travels around the world, carrying the gear, framing with a camera-eye. She digs in archival footage for an immense repertory of cinematic gestures performed by others – and playfully edits them with her own Super-8 shots. Multiculturalism and polyglotism are woven into this poetics of displacement.”

- Bérénice Reynaud

“Like the diary film, the found footage collage film is a major genre of experimental  filmmaking. Ostrovsky is an expert collagist of both image and sound. In almost all her films, she juxtaposes bits of music with images to transform feeling and meaning. Favoring dance beats, she mixes classical and pop music, often combining familiar tunes with concrete sound. As her work developed, her selection of sequences from  films she loves became bolder, even as her own images became richer in texture, color and movement.”

-Amy Taubin