Jeff Daniel Silva

Jeff Daniel Silva is an artist, teacher & curator based in Boston. Jeff studied Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College and received an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. He currently teaches at Harvard University & Emerson College in experimental, documentary and ethnographic film studies and production. Jeff is also the co-founder and co-curator of the acclaimed Balagan Experimental Film Series at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Over the past ten years Jeff has developed a diverse body of work from multi-channel installations to short films and experimental documentaries that have screened internationally at festivals and in galleries. His projects tend to challenge boundaries and conventions, whether it be spatial, temporal, cinematic, aesthetic, ethical, cultural, personal or political. His usage of the moving-image in his work is a vehicle for exploring political ambiguity, paradox and corporeality.

Films:
Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War (2008)

Related Links
official website

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