OFF funding initiatives
Since the 1970s the Ostrovsky Family Fund has been involved in supporting different cultural projects mainly focusing on the production, display, programming, preservation, archiving and educational distribution of the experimental moving image. Such underwritings include:
Major operational and capital support
The Jerusalem Film Center – (since 1974) – for further information see the OFF book
Film Forum New York – (since the 1980s)
Acquisition of offices, ongoing operational support and the Documentary Fund. Vivian Ostrovsky is a board member.
Electronic Arts Intermix – New York (since 2019)
Support for long-term digital preservation and storage system for media archive to insure the accessibility of collections in perpetuity and a board member.
Anthology Film Archives – New York (2026)
In 2026, OFF provided major support to fuel the fundraising campaign dedicated to this project. Board member since 2026.
Preservation and digitization of archives
BFVPP – (Brazilian Film and Video Preservation Project) was launched in 2015 to support the preservation of films and videos produced by Brazilian women artists between 1960 and 1985. The project is also committed to recovering the memory surrounding this production through a series of interviews with artists and collaborators, and to fostering critical reflection on it by commissioning original essays on artists and their films or videos. BFVPP further seeks to serve as a platform bringing together researchers and curators working on Brazilian artists’ moving-image production.
Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir Paris, France (since 2011) – preservation of films.
Noa Eshkol Foundation – Holon – support for the digitizing, re-cataloguing, preservation and restoration of the Noa Eshkol archive.
CCA Tel Aviv – support for the expansion of the Center’s digital archive.
The Israeli Center for Digital Art – Holon – restructuring of the Center’s digital archive.
Museum of Art, Ein Harod in collaboration with the David Perlov family – support for digitizing and cataloguing David Perlov’s work.
Educational programs
City College of New York, Film department , USA – Ostrovsky Family Fund Award in honor of Chantal Akerman ( since 2019).
An award in support of thesis film projects for second-year MFA students. This encourages students to study Chantal Akerman’s work. This initiative is underwritten for three years, renewable.
HEB2 – an audio-visual research and training project in the city of Hebron (2010).
Reels on Wheels – a mobile cinema project for film and video cine-clubs and workshops in peripheral communities in Israel (2010-2012).
The Law in these Parts (documentary, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel, 2011) – initial educational distribution support.
The Carioca Fund (Brazil Foundation) – support for a program providing access to education for under-privileged children in Brazil (since 2011).
The Foundation Center – New York, USA – a donation for an inclusive source for information on philanthropy worldwide (2011).
Exhibition production and experimental film / video art programming grants
Videobrasil – video award grant (initiated in 2017).
The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv – VideoZone Festival (2006, 2008, 2010); retrospectives of Paul Sharits (2007) and Hollis Frampton (2008); OFF Series – monthly screenings for experimental cinema (since 2009); exhibition and lectures by Marina Abramovic (2009); exhibition production: Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol (2011) and the production of Lockhart’s video Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation System; Gary Hill (2012), Alona Rodeh: Above and Beyond (2013), Michal Helfman: Change, Nira Pereg: All of This Can Be Reconstructed Elsewhere (2013), Christian Jankowski: Heavy Weight History (2014), Tamar Harpaz: Kitchen Sink Drama (2014); Ohad Meromi: Resort (2015); Cao Fei: Haze and Fog (2016); Ragnar Kjartansson: Architecture and Morality (2016); Lives Between – group exhibition (2017); Laurent Montaron, Replica (2018); Stumbling Through the Uncanny Valley: Sculpture and Self in the Age of Computer Generated Imagery (2019); Rona Yefman solo show (2020).
Tel Aviv Museum of Art – Absalon (2013); Guest/Host (2013); Showtime (2013); Alina Szapocznikow: Body Traces (2014); Anri Sala: No Names, No Title (2014); Public Movement: National Collection (2015); Roee Rosen: A Group Exhibition (2016); Elmgreen & Dragset: Powerless Structures (2016); Fiona Tan: Geography of Time (2017); Hollywood and Other Myths – group exhibition (2018); Keren Russo: Myths for the Near Future (2019); John Gerrard: Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) (2020).
Israel Museum, Jerusalem – Valie Export: Jerusalem Premiere (2009); Yehudit Sasportas: Seven Winters (2013).
In 2015, celebrated moving image artist, Julian Rosefeldt, created an opus, Manifesto, as both an episodic feature film and also a 13-channel video installation, starring Cate Blanchett. OFF supported the Israeli debut of both, respectively at the Jerusalem Film Center (2016) and Israel Museum (2019).
Exterritory Project – initial support for the launch of the flotilla art event (2010).
East End Seaport Museum – restoration of Anita Thacher’s installation Illuminated Station (2011).
Bass Museum of Art, Miami – support for the production of the exhibition Unnatural (2012).
Museum of Art, Ein Harod – David Perlov: Drawings, Photographs, Films (2014).
Grants for individual artists for new works & Artist books
Among the recipients: Einat Amir, Ron Amir, Ariela Azoulay, Yair Barak, Yael Bartana, Hilla Ben Ari, Orit Ben Shitrit, Eitan Buganim, Ofri Cnaani, Deville Cohen, Scandar Copti, Maya Dunietz, Ira Edouardovna, Effi & Amir, Yael Efrati, Nir Evron, Exterritory Project, Dani Gal, Noa Giniger, Guy Goldstein, Assaf Gruber, Noa Gur, Tzion Abraham Hazan, Tamar Harpaz, Michal Helfman, Tamar Hirschfeld, Thalia Hoffman, Oree Holban, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Adam Kaplan and Gilad Baram, Tali Keren, Dana Levy, Michael Liani, Rotem Linial, Itay Marom, Karam Natour, Ann Oren, Ruth Patir, Nira Pereg, Avner Pinchover, Gilad Ratman, Elham Rokni, Karen Russo, Ruti Sela, Nurit Sharett, Keren Shavit, Lior Shvil, Efrat Shvily, Naama Tsabar, Yonatan Vinitsky, Hinda Weiss, Amir Yatziv, Gil Yefman, Nevet Yitzhak, Maya Zack, Tamir Zadok, Dor Zlekha Levy and others.
Artist books
Nira Pereg: Kept Alive (2010)
Extremum – Reflections on the Works of Yasmeen Godder (2014)
Nevet Yitzhak: Video Work (2017)
Acquisitions support
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – New York – In 2018, OFF underwrote acquisition and restoration for
Anita Thacher’s Anteroom, 1982, for the Guggenheim Museum
A joint acquisition in 2012 between the Tate, Centre Pompidou and the Israel Museum of Christian Marclay’s 24-hour-long installation opus, The Clock, 2010.
Acquisition of On Foreign Made Soles, a multi-channel video installation by Ira Eduardovna (2016).