Catalogue des films de « Shelly Silver »
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis | 2015
Details of human and animal bodies in a peri- urban environment - dancing and motionless, living and dead. Like her ambiv- alent shots, beautiful yet trenchant, the visual poem composed by Shelly Silver reveals the frailty of living beings that...
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis | 2013
Chinatown, New York. A man is watching. In a voice-over in Chinese, he recalls his past in the district where he was born and which he left fifty years ago. Windows, sidewalks, fire escapes, the stars of locally shot autobiographical films whom...
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis | 2013
"The Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven née Plötz, was an unsung member of the Dada Movement. "The Lamps" details a trip to the Naples Archeological Museum where she breaks into "Il Gabinetto Segreto", a secret room filled with erotic objects from...
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis | 2013
"The poet Frances Richard asked a group of filmmakers to create works inspired by her book "Anarch". Made over a few snowy days in Berlin, the film uses this book and place to create an anxious love letter to a city and an undisclosed person." (S....
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis | 2009
On a black screen, words and images segue to the sound of synthetic voices giving a high-speed lesson on the history of Chinatown, immigrant experience and political memory. Hijacking a certain type of educational discourse, the film questions...
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis | 2008
Street interviews in New York: what does it mean to be a citizen of a city or country? Where does individual responsibility begin and end? The interviewer’s questions - Are you satisfied? Does equal opportunity exist in the Unitied States? - are...
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis | 2004
A woman asks strangers whom she meets on the Internet to reveal something of themselves in public, in front of her camera. What is real and invented are inseparable: the narrator may be fictional, but the images of the experience she relates most...
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis, Japon | 2003
Tragi-comic peregrinations around public spaces in Asia, Europe and Latin America following the impulses of a desperately troubled narrator. Suicide is a sort of film within a film, where Shelly Silver embodies her own caricature: a director in...
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis | 1996
Japanese women aged from fifteen to eighty candidly recount the stories of their lives as women - daughters, mothers, wives. A traditional folk tale of a mother looking for her daughter kidnapped by a monster and the diversity of filmed or found...
Auteur-Réalisateur, Image, Montage | États-Unis | 1994
Two years after reunification, an encounter with some Berlin residents: what do the words "homeland", "capitalism", "democracy" mean to each of them? Through these simple yet delicate questions, Shelly Silver holds a mirror up to a...