ONDINE VINAO

 

ONDINE VINAO is wearing the Romy No.008. She is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn.

What is the last thing you do at night?
Put on my retainer and wish Jordan sweet dreams

What do you collect?
Quotes and board games

Who are your inspirations?
My grandparents, Stanley Kubrick, Catharine MacKinnon, Motaz - anyone who’s trying to make the world a better place

Do you have a soundtrack to your life?
For a long time it was Purcell’s Cold Song from his King Arthur opera - the score to my upcoming film Two Neighbors is primarily variations on it. Right now it’s the Open Air Parade album by Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician and composer - he’s the “whistler” on many of Morricone’s soundtracks for Sergio Leone films

Where would you find your doppelgänger?
Dead - Arlington National Cemetery, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ grave. Jackie O and I are both from New York, have the same birthday, attended the same high school, and she died the year I was born! Living - Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, home of the first-ever North American manufacturing facility for Haribo

What is dear to your heart?
The community I’ve made, and continue to make, through the filmmaking process

What do you find most exciting in contemporary culture?
Jordan Stone’s TikToks and the “new French extremity” women - Julia Ducournau, Coralie Fargeat. I sense we may have similar nightmares

What are you wearing?
Crocs, Brandy Melville underwear, a Panavision sweatshirt and Jordan’s socks

What is your favorite candy?
Watermelon Sour Patch Kids, Nerds Rope, Trolli Sour Gummy Worms, Warheads

What is your favorite animal?
Goats - but I have a soft spot for the pangolin, as well

What is a rule that should never be broken?
The rules of the (board) game

What is a rule that should always be broken?
Any rule that’s no longer useful to us as a community. Dessert after dinner.

What is most difficult to find in contemporary culture?
Sincerity, bravery, artistic discipline, tradition

What is the best cult classic?
Showgirls

What are you bored by?
Autofiction, irony, cereal

What should we be reading?
Tales of the Master Race by Marcie Hershman - it's a collection of interconnected short stories set in a fictional German town during Nazi rule. Similar to Zone of Interest, but with a wider range of characters, varying in levels of guilt/complicity, and offering more insight into how the residents justify their actions and cope emotionally.

The best arthouse film(s)?
2001: A Space Odyssey
Also - Tarkovsky's Mirror, Come and See, Dogville, Mishima, Woman in the Dunes, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet

Where do you find good design?
In the minds of Lili Lea Abraham (production designer) and Paige Reifler (costume designer) :)

Where is happiness found?
Pictionary, spending time with animals, giving gifts, eating sweets

What do you see outside your window?
A bird feeder that my boyfriend, Jordan, put up

What makes you feel nostalgic?
Movies from my childhood - Opera Imaginaire, The Sword in the Stone, The Great Mouse Detective, The Black Cauldron, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Return to Oz

What do you look forward to?
Monday night Bachelor episodes, being on set, editing, seeing my friends who live far away

What is your favorite slogan?
Croft & Johnson LLP: the truth is up to us.

What is modern?
Moving image - video art, movies, reality television, TikToks

Can you recall a dream?
For years I had a recurring one. A half-girl, half-dolphin who performed at Sea World. Every time I had the dream it would be the same - I’m in the back of the crowd watching her dance on the water’s surface, her top half like a woman, bottom half like dolphin, levitating above the sea like Jesus.

Any last words?
Jews for a free Palestine