About:

Fern Silva (b. 1982, Hartford, CT) has created a body of film, video, and projection work that has been screened and performed at various festivals, galleries, museums and cinematheques including Berlinale, Rotterdam, New York, Ann Arbor, and Images Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, Wexner Center for the Arts, San Francisco Cinematheque, Roulette Gallery, LA Film Forum, MOCAD, White Box Gallery and MOMA P.S.1. His work emerges out of travel, presenting temporal and spatial transitions as conduits into the realms of the personal and ephemeral. Rather than focusing on one single perspective, his work moves through disparate moments to show commonality between beings and structures while exploring the effects of geography, climate and environment on social relations, communication, and the metaphysical. He's drawn to subjects that defy a national identity or obscurity through myth, folklore, mysticism, or particular rituals. In an effort to avoid conventional aspects of documentary, he reinforces imagination through embracing suggestions of possible narratives. Driven by curiosity and memory, his work reflects the tensions between mystification of the observational and experiential and the realization of moments in time as a form of unification.  He was listed as one of the top 25 Filmmakers for the 21st Century in Film Comment Magazine’s Avant-Garde Filmmakers Poll and is the recipient of the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film from the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival. He studied Art and Filmmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

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