Jeff Silva

– casa wabi 2018

Community Project

Clase cine documental, sensorial y etnográfico – Universidad Internacional del Pacífico, Puerto Escondido.
The objective of the project was to introduce attendees to the sensory documentary film made by the resident, based on the model of the chair that he teaches in universities around the world. They were shown extracts of films made by the resident and by members of his workshop. In the session held at Casa Wabi, the attendees were asked to show fragments of documentary pieces they had previously made to have a workshop where the resident and the other participants criticized the work shown. Exercises of perception of space and sounds were made throughout the facilities of the foundation so that they could learn how to play with the perception of the spectator through image and sound.

Log-Piece

  • Sonosíncresis (2018) Registro sonoro de la residencia 29’41”

  • Sonosíncresis (2018) Registro sonoro de la residencia 29’41”

Sonosíncresis (2018)
Registro sonoro de la residencia
29’41”

USA

based between Boston and Marseille

Jeff Silva is an artist, filmmaker, and teacher based between Boston and Marseille. Jeff works across medias, genres, and forms but his work shares a close kinship with traditions of experimental film and new modes of ethnographic documentary, exploring the quotidian and geographic aspects of his subjects lives, often over long spans of time. His work is often focused on themes of displacement and fragility, humanistically documenting populations, individuals, systems and ecologies at risk. His most recently completed projects include Linefork (2017), Ivan & Ivana (2011), and Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War (2008) have been exhibited at festivals, and museums internationally, including: MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, The Viennale, BAFICI, Visions du Réel, Valdivia, and Flahertiana. A long-¬‐time affiliate of the SEL (Sensory Ethnography Lab) at Harvard University. Jeff has also been programming documentary and experimental cinema for nearly two decades. In 2000, he co-¬‐founded BALAGAN, an the offbeat and alternative micro-¬‐cinema screening series in Boston that continues to present marginalized films to the community.
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