Fern SILVA

(1982- )
Nationality: american

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 across the globe. His work emerges out of travel, documenting movement through the world as a conduit into the realms of the personal and ephemeral, and 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. Rather than focusing on one aspect, he moves through moments to show commonality amongst beings and structures. 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 from the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival. He studied filmmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College and is currently based in New York.

2 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

	IN THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT, DARKNESS PREVAILS 2010 / 16 mm / coul-n&b / son / 13' 30 / 31 €
	SAHARA MOSAIC 2009 / 16 mm / coul-n&b / son / 10' 00 / 31 €