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.