The Title Was Shot
Vivian Ostrovsky
2009
Color and B&W
Shooting format: Mini-DV
Language: English, French
Distribution: Light Cone
Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE program
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 whimsical 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.
The film was awarded the SILVER MIKELDI FOR DOCUMENTARY at Bilbao International Film Festival, Spain.
Director: Vivian Ostrovsky
Editing: Vivian Ostrovsky, Ruti Gadish, Claude Mercier
Sound: Vivian Ostrovsky, Claude Mercier
Vivian OSTROVSKY (1945, USA) was born in New York, grew up in Rio de Janeiro and studied in Paris, where she still lives. Her films have been shown in festivals worldwide and she is an acknowledged experimental film maker. Ostrovsky is also involved as a programmer with the Jerusalem Film Festival.