A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of Chantal Akerman, the filmmaker remembers a few moments that illustrate Chantal's personality. Forty years of friendship condensed into four minutes...

But Elsewhere Is Always Better

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.

Son chant

A fragmented tribute to Ukranian-Brazilian novelist and fashion journalist Clarice Lispector that interrogates the idea of 'in-betweenness', the intermission, a hiatus.

Hiatus

A Russian can say, “I hear the smell…”  A maestro has a vision of what a symphony should sound like.  In a silent film how can one make the spectator see the sound?  A vivid and noisy assemblage of archival and contemporary imagery meditating on the past and presence of film audio.