Jeff Daniel Silva

Jeff (Daniel) Silva is a Boston filmmaker and film programmer. His most recently completed projects, Ivan & Ivana (2011) and Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War (2008), have been exhibited at film festivals and museums internationally, including MoMA's Documentary Fortnight, The Viennale, Visions du Reel, Valdivia, Flahertiana, and DocAviv.[1] Silva has been programming cinema for 14 years at the Balagan film series, which he co-founded in 2000.[2] It is an offbeat and alternative screening series. In 2006 to 2009 he taught at Harvard University and developed the Sensory Ethnography Lab curriculum with Lucien Castaing-Taylor. The SEL is a "practice-based program of visual anthropology exploring the interstices of art, anthropology and documentary film."[3] Currently, Silva is a professor of film at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) in Boston.[4]

Filmography

Personal life

Silva currently resides in Somerville, Massachusetts and is working on three feature documentary projects.

References

  1. ↑ Sui Wonders, Jeannie (3 April 2014). "Portrait of an Artist: Jeff Silva". The Harvard Crimson.
  2. ↑ "Balagan Film Series".
  3. ↑ "Sensory Ethnography Lab". Harvard University.
  4. ↑ "Jeff Daniel Silva". Documentary Educational Resources. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
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