dear all:
very last minute invite. i'll be heading west this weekend for a screening at
REDCAT. it would be great to see any los angeles frameworks folks there!
best,
shelly
Monday, April 14, 2014, 8:30 pm
Shelly Silver: Intimate Visions and Public Spaces
“By staking her right to documentary material as well as fictional writing,
Shelly Silver sizes up the likelihood of an imaginary point of view reaching a
truth more subtle than autobiographical truth.” —Cinéma du Réel
Jack H. Skirball Series
This screening of two works by Shelly Silver begins with What I’m Looking For
(2004, digital video, 15 min.), the second in her trilogy of fictional essay
films shot in public spaces, which explores the relationship between a female
photographer and subjects
met on the Internet. The program continues with
Touch (2013, digital video, 68 min.), in which a gay man recounts, mostly in
Mandarin, his return to New York’s Chinatown after 50 years in order to care
for his dying mother. Like the narrator—a librarian, cataloguer and
recorder—the city has changed and yet the past still haunts familiar streets.
The character is an invention of the filmmaker, but as her narrator confides,
“words make the impossible imaginable, therefore possible.” Currently chair of
Columbia’s Visual Arts Program, Silver has utilized video, film and still
photography to investigate contested territories between public and private,
narrative and documentary, the watcher and the watched.
Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences.
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1400186916919275/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
http://www.redcat.org/event/shelly-silver
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