DER Filmmaker

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. 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 Available at DER
Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War

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