5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown at the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival July 23rd - 30th http://www.sff.ba/film/show/id/1287 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown at the Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad 6/16-6.21, 2010 the director will be present http://www.kortfilmfestivalen.no/en/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown at the Chicago Underground Film Festival http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/node/740 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown wins the "Dialogpreis" 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown wins the Dialogpreis at the European Media Arts Festival 2010 from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of intercultural exchange !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shelly Silver - Blog Musings on moving image, words, sounds, art, life. It's living, for now, on the website for 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown. http://www.5lessonsmovie.com/blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PhotoFilm Tate Modern Film Curated by Gustav Hamos, Katja Pratschke and Thomas Tode. with Jean Eustache, Hollis Frampton, Dryden Goodwin, Chris Marker, Nagisa Oshima, Sean Snyder, Shelly Silver, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda... http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/photofilmseasonseries.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonder Women from the EMST collection Curated By: Stamatis Schizakis with Sadie Benning, Mona Hatoum, Sophie Calle, Shelly Silver, Carolee Schneemann, Rebecca Horn, Dara Birnbaum, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler and Joan Jonas. 25/02/2010 - 07/03/2010 National Museum of Contemporary Art 17 - 19 Vas. Georgiou Β & Rigilis Str. Athens, Greece http://www.emst.gr/EN/exhibitions/emst_exhibitions/main.aspx?ID=162 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown International Premiere Berlin International Film Festival Shorts Competition Saturday 13.02. 16h CinemaxX 6 Saturday 13.02. 18h Arsenal Cinema, Film Talk w/the Directors Sunday 14.02. 22h CinemaxX 3 Monday 14.03. 20h Hebbel Theater I, Be Kind, Rewind Screening Wednesday 17.02. 17:45h Colosseum Friday 19.02. 16h CinemaxX 6 Berlinale Catalogue !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Former East/Former West - Berlin Off/On Wall Exile Alexandrinenstr. 4 Berlin Germany November 4th - December 5th opening: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:00pm In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Exile Ausstellungsraum presents two projects focusing on the ramifications of the physical and emotional divisions between East and West created by the Berlin Wall. Consisting of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it meant to be German at that particular moment in history. For forty-five years, residents of the divided city lived radically different lives, both in terms of ideology and everyday experience. Silver questions the very notion of a shared language, focusing on changing definitions of words for political and economic systems - democracy, freedom, capitalism, socialism - as well as words used to describe nations and identity - nationality, Germany, history, foreigners, home. In Silver's 1994 project, Former East/Former West, the Berlin Wall has become an internalized psychological divide between the residents of the former East and West based on fundamental misconceptions, stereotypes, hopes and fears. Speck's installation project Berlin Off/On Wall consists of a video, photographs and documents spanning more than 30 years. The video, filmed in 1978, shows a protest/performance by Berlin Painter Per Luke in collaboration with Video Artist Wieland Speck. In the video we see a man climbing onto the Wall and play the harp while being watched by security forces and spectators from both sides of the concrete divide. Decades later, Speck discovered photographs of said performance taken by Eastern border security forces in the archives of the former East German Staatssicherheit (Stasi). An extensive Stasi file, poetically entitled The Harp Player, was created in the aftermath of the protest/performance. The physicality of the Wall as an epitome of Cold War politics makes the conflict overt; both sides have no other choice than to watch one another through their circumscribed lens. The juxtaposition of both projects commemorates the fundamental complexity of the transformation of a concrete external reality to an internalized mindset that is still relevant today. Exile Gallery FlashArt Review Artforum Pick !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New Beijing Film Festival in complete world 3pm - 7pm Cable 8: West of Wanda Plaza 6595111 http://www.cable8.cn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Crisis of Equality steirischerherbst festival of new art, 2009, Graz, Austria 12% activism 47% media criticism 23% crisis 18% contradiction Are we living in an age of equality, of social mobility, diverse possibilities and options, but also, consequently, in a system of infinite interrelations? But then what models should one follow? The oft-cited war of civilisations contrasts with rhetoric of tolerant multiculturalism that in some cases degenerate into parodies of pluralism. So are we really divided by certain values and lifestyles that are not equally valid for everyone? But where are these values produced and circulated, now that the grand narratives have come to an end and mass medias social control of modernity has demised? The Crisis of Equality presents examples of video works since 1967 in which the role of violence, the relationship of social movements and media, the role of information and messages, of participation and pop culture become the focal topics and thus the discourses that decide as to the validity of ideas, values and lifestyles. Curators Maria Morata & Reinhard Braun with Richard Serra, Antonio Muntadas/Marshall Reese, Shelly Silver, Martha Rosler, Dan Graham, Helke Sander/Harun Farocki... Mon 28/09, 7.30 pm Mon 05/10, 7.30 pm Mon 12/10, 7.30 pm http://www.steirischerherbst.at/2009/english/calendar/calendar.php?eid=54 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In Person: Shelly Silver Masterclass & Screening | extra muros 29 - 30 October 2009 Screening room HISK & Sphinx Cinema Ghent, Belgium In Person: Shelly Silver is a co-production between argos and Kask, in collaboration with Hisk. http://www.argosarts.org/distribution-calendar/2009/e6c3f63ef9334a8fae0a4b6f8e0faa09 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown The Chinatown Film Project, will be showing here and there in NYC this fall: Tuesday, September 29, 7p @ Apple Store, Soho Screening: Five Lessons and Nine Questions About Chinatown and Night Scene, New York Q&A: Jem Cohen and Shelly Silver Thursday, October 1, 7p @ Apple Store, Soho Screening - Chinatown Film Project (all fims) Q&A: Richard Wong and Karin Chien Monday, September 28, 7p @Tribeca Cinemas Screening - Chinatown Film Project (all films) Q&A: Sam Pollard and Rose Troche http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/chinatown_film_project_tribeca_all_access_tribeca_cinemas RSVP: http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/taa/program_highlights/57774507.html The Chinatown Film Project Miguel Arteta, Patty Chang, Jem Cohen, Cary Fukunaga, So Yong Kim & Bradley Rust Gray, Amir Naderi, Sam Pollard, Shelly Silver, Rose Troche, Wayne Wang & Richard Wong The films will be playing continuously, through January, at The Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, NYC http://www.mocanyc.org/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heart in Heart EMST/National Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece June 11th - October 11th On June 11, The National Museum of Contemporary Art will inaugurate heart in heart, a large scale exhibition in which 23 artists participate with paintings, sculpture, installations, drawings, photographs, videos and web art from EMST collection. Most of the works are presented for the first time. Occupying the entire exhibition space of the Museum in the Athens Conservatory building, the exhibition will last for four months. Featured artists in the exhibition include: Carl Andre, Kutlug Ataman, Bill Viola, Nan Goldin, Ilya Kabakov, Pedro Cabrita-Reis, Yael Kanarek, Nikos Kessanlis, Kimsooja, Yorgos Lazongas, John Baldessari, Per Barclay, Pantelis Xagoraris, Nina Papaconstantinou, Steve Roden, Lucas Samaras, Shelly Silver, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, George Hadjimichalis, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Rebecca Horn and Chryssa. The exhibition presupposes a prevalent museological strategy today, which invites us to rethink the collection – a museum’s heart – as a constantly shifting field of new relationships among works, or, to quote the contemporary thinker Homi Bhabha, in terms of “transitionality” and translation. Through such a dynamic perception, works and their histories constantly change, new narratives and meanings emerge, past and present are reconstructed, one within the other. The exhibition attempts to penetrate into secrets and hidden codes, personal diaries and intimate confessions, love letters and stories, fears, desires and emotions through contemporary and earlier works which conceal, converse and conflict with each other, store memories and touches, enabling the establishment of clandestine links among them as well as of a narrative which conceals and at the same time reveals through the images and the words of others. Anna Kafetsi http://www.emst.gr/exhibitions-entry.asp?lang_id=ENG&msi1=EXHIBITIONS&mssi1=EXHIBITIONS-upcoming&exh_id=49 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in complete world at Biennale libre de l'Image en Mouvement - Blim ! Sunday September 6th, 8:30 pm CAC-Voltaire Salle Henri-Langlois Rue du G�n�ral-Dufour 16 1204 Gen�ve http://www.saint-gervais.ch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in complete world at le petit versailles Saturday July 25th 8 pm DAWN DRAKE and ZapOte - Funk Latin Afro-beat band 9 pm The Garden - Jason Stefaniak, 5:00 in complete world- Shelly Silver, 53:00 LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education. Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Le Petit Versailles 346 East Houston St. < Avenue B & C> petitversailles@earthlink.net http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com 212 529 8815 Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shelly Silver and Phillip Scheffner in conversation Friday, July 10 7:30pm - 9:00pm The Building Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a Berlin, Germany Shelly Silver will engage in a discussion with Philip Scheffner - an artist/videomaker from Berlin. They will be talking about strategies, necessities and desires in light of the current state of the world, and they will also screen excerpts from their most recent works. "I�ve been thinking recently (and not only after visiting the Venice Biennale) how much of the artwork I see expresses what I�d call a �late� or �decadent� phase of conceptualism, wondering why so many artists are opting at the moment for this strategy. Perhaps this is not surprising as it matches the fairly decadent time that seems to be just now coming to an end. What I�d like to focus on this Friday--with my long-time friend, the artist and filmmaker Phillip Scheffner is work that takes another strategy, one that is more common to literature (I spent this Christmas with Roberto Bola�o�s 2666). This approach is layered and at times messy, calling for getting one�s hands dirty, searching out, muddling through, facing up to pesky details and unwanted contradictions that force one, midstream even, to switch paradigms or teams. This strategy may necessitate speaking, or, as necessary, stuttering. I want to talk about complexity � an approach I am currently interested in, knowing it is not without its own false seductions, dangers, traps. We plan to show some old and new work by ourselves and others including excerpts from our most recent films in complete world and The Halfmoon Files, and, if I can extract it from my computer, a work-in-progress." --Shelly Silver http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1493806475&ref=profile#/event.php?eid=127960752574&ref=mf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dialogs with Films � Four Decades of The Forum for New Cinema/Berlinale July 1 - 4 Arsenal Potsdamer Platz Berlin http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/de/arsenal/programmtext-anzeige/article/1629/304.html?cHash=c4caf6c7e9 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Video Vortex May 22nd - 23rd Split Croatia http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/video-vortex-split/program !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in complete world Spanish Premiere Documenta Madrid Saturday May 2nd at 17.00h, Princesa Cinema 7 Monday May 4th at 19.30h at Princesa Cinema 7 http://www.documentamadrid.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in complete world Argentina Premiere MARFICI/Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata May 2nd - 9th http://www.marfici.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times curated by Eric C. Shiner, The Warhol's Milton Fine Curator of Art the warhol 11 Sandusky Street Pittsburgh, PA The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times is a large group exhibition of contemporary artists that seeks to analyze the power of art in troubled times. As the stability of the United States economy continues to erode and as talk of a prolonged economic malaise spreads, everyone from the ruling elite to the man in the street worries with ever-increasing frequency about what might happen should this country and perhaps the world beyond spiral into economic collapse. The End confronts this hard-edged topic head-on. with: Lida Abdul, Beth Campbell, Luis Camnitzer, Daniel Canogar, Castromori (Hiroshi McDonald Mori + Stefano Castronovo), Davis/Langlois, David Deutsch, Mary Beth Edelson, Karen Finley, Roland Flexner, Daniel and Geo Fuchs, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Lukas Maximilian Huller, Rashid Johnson, Cary Liebowitz, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Jonathan Meese, Trevor Paglen, Hirsch Perlman, Raymond Pettibon, Jane Philbrick, Martha Rosler, Diane Samuels, Shelly Silver, Susanne Slavick, Althea Thauberger, Mitra Trabizian, Banks Violette, Hugh Walton, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Wool, and Aaron Young. February 7th - May 3rd http://www.warhol.org/calendar/events_detail.php?eventID=1415&dateYear=2009&dateMonth=2&dateDate=7 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Psychogeographies FRAME Project Room April 22, 4pm A psychogeographical analysis starts from the exposure of relations, relating a genuine, material environment to an imaginary or possible environment. Each work investigates questions of documentary versus fiction, private versus public, and the real versus the imagined. FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange Cable Factory Talberginkatu 1 C 96 Helsinki, Finland http://www.frame-fund.fi/en/news/2009/129-psychogeographies-screening-at-frame-project-room !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No Place To Hide curated by Kassandra Wellendorf Skive Kunstmuseum Havnevej 14 Skive, Denmark with: Ane Mette Ruge, David Rokeby, Erik Olofsen, Henriette Heise, Jacob T�kker, Jens Kull, Kassandra Wellendorf, Mikkel Meyer, Mogens Jacobsen, Rolf Steensig, Shelly Silver February 2nd - April 13th opening February 7th, 4 - 6 pm http://www.skivekunstmuseum.dk/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! exceptional happenings 3-channel video installation part of Yaddo: Making American Culture The New York Public Library 5th Avenue and 42nd Street Gottesman Exhibition Hall curated by Micki McGee October 24th - February 15th !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! c sides Festival Tel Aviv February 11 - 14 http://csides.net/2009/wordpress/?cat=6 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 20 years later.... Thursday January 29nd, 7:30 PM the building Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a 10249 Berlin DE T: 030 28 04 79 73 On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the 1989 events, and in anticipation of the looming mega fiestas organised by official Berlin, this program takes a look back through two very different filmic approaches. Heard and seen from the Berlin of today, the answers to Shelly Silver's questions in Former East, Former West (1994) show the differences in two languages, both called German. The images bring to life those alien feelings and irritation that dominated people's minds, when faced with a situation that wasn't supposed to happen. Manfred Jelinski's Ich hasse den 9.November (I hate the 9th of November) forms the reaction of the first surprised, then overstrained West-Berlin creative to a comic documentary. Selected by Florian Zeyfang, Special Guest: Annette Maechtel, assistant director/editor of Former East, Former West. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec January 30th Cin�ma V�rit� Revisited: Commonalities and Differences 20:00 Presentation by Dr. Maximilian C. Forte, Professor at Concordia University. 20:30 Chronicle of a Summer Jean Rouch, 10 minute excerpt, 1961, France. in complete world Shelly Silver, 53 minutes, 2008, United States Concordia University J.A. DeSeve Cinema Concordia University 1400 De Maisonneuve Boulevard West Montreal http://www.fifeq.ca/en/festival/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PIE BIBLE Book Launch Monday December 15th, 8pm Kunstverein Muenchen �Pie Bible� produced by the artistic duo M+M based on the fictitious book in the film American Pie. M+M asked selected artists to reveal personal experiences, ingenious techniques and fantasies that lead to secret areas of the world of sensual lust and erotic abysses, because according to society�s general impression, artists are regarded as experts when it comes to sexual experiences and initiation rites. Emmanuelle Antille � Marc Aschenbrenner � Tina Bara � Benjamin Bergmann � Olaf Breuning � Chicks on Speed � � Anna Gaskell � Nori toshi Hirakawa � Monika Leitner/Khalid Nuhu Mohammadu � Katarina Maciunas � Jonathan Meese � Cesare Pietroiusti � Miguel Rothschild � Shelly Silver � Gerd and Uwe Tobias... What I know about Penises, by Shelly Silver !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PUBLICPRIVATE: SPACES Kino Arsenal, Berlin. 4.12.08- 19-1.09 curated by Maria Morata Opening: 4.12.08, 21h PUBLICPRIVATE: SPACES explores the intersections, frictions and divergences between public space and private space. Through experimental film, video works and recordings of artistic interventions the project shows different artistic attitudes and stances towards individual and collective behavior in the public and private sphere with J�zef Robakowski Peter Tscherkassky Chantal Akerman Isabelle Prim Klara Lid�n Guy Ben-Ner Shelly Silver Maya Deren Anita Thacher Pipilotti Rist, John Smith Dan Graham et al. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid in complete world Thursday December 4th, 15:00 Jeu de Paume http://art-action.org/en_index.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! En hommage � Andr� Iten the extraordinary director and curator of Centre pour l'image contemporaine, St-Gervais, Gen�ve Rui Nogueira, Jean-Pierre Merlo, Bernard Zumthor vous invitent � une projection d'�uvres vid�os issues du Fonds Andr� Iten le mercredi 3 d�cembre � 19h30 Tuesday December 3rd, 7:30 pm CAC-Voltaire salle Michel Simon vid�os de Bill Viola, Artavazd Pelachian, Christian Marclay, Pierrick Sorin, Gianni Motti, Val�rie Pavia, Shelly Silver et Donatella Bernardi. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in complete world european premiere International Documentary Festival Amsterdam/IDFA Silver Wolf Competition Friday Nov. 21, 17:00 Compagnie (industry) Saturday Nov. 22, 10:00 Tuschinski 3 Sunday Nov. 23rd, 23:00 Munt 11 Wednesday Nov. 26, 18:15 Tuschinski 6 Friday Nov. 28, 20:45 Munt 13 Paradocumentaries Panel November 26th from 13h-15h http://idfa.nl/en/festival/schedule/film.aspx?id=c668bd13-266a-4a7a-aa16-f962ae5f6271 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HABITAT AND UTOPIA BINZ39 10:00 PM Thursday November 20th Seven quests for happiness, intimacy and perfection in contemporary urban settings. From futuristic fantasies to hard social realism and from intimate and sometimes somewhat sad encounters between complete strangers to world wide happiness. with films from Bernhard Marsch, Shelly Silver, Michael Gibson & The Jacksons, AL+AL, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Mike Mills & Air Followed by a discussion moderated by Dagmar Reichert, cultural scientist, with Franziska Koch, artist, Isa St�rm, architect, Patrick Huber, director of Kunstraum Walcheturm & Videoex Festival Stiftung BINZ39 133 Sihlquai 8005 Z�rich 044 271 18 71 levy-binz39@bluewin.ch http://www.binz39.ch/kommende-veranstaltungen-im-oktober-und-november-2008.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Visible and the Invisible Cinema Sim Narratives and projections itau cultural avenida paulista 149 sao paulo, brazil curated by Berta Sichel November 21 - 23 The Visible and the Invisible, brings together 17 works that represent the most recent cinematographical productio by contemporary artists. Curated by Berta Sichel, director of media at the National Museum, Reina Sofia in Madrid. Works from such directors as Chantal Ackerman, Jenny Perlin, Fiona Tan, Hito Steyerl, Ursula Biemann, Jackie Reem Salloum, Antonio Muntadas and Shelly Silver will be shown in this exhibition. http://www.itaucultural.org.br/index.cfm?cd_pagina=2831 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BACK STOP Berlin//Brunnenstrasse 64 10:00 PM Saturday November 1st Shelly Silver//Jayce Salloum//Georg Zey//Fredie Beckmans//Susanne Kutter//Seraphina Lenz//Natalia Mali + Heiner Muehlenbock//Karen Oostenbrink//U.A. U-Voltastrasse4 und U-Bernauer Strasse !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interstitial Zones Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present and Dialectics of Seeing argos Werfstraat 13 rue du Chantier B-1000 Brussels Belgium Opening 18.10.08 / 18:00 - 21:00 18.10.08 - 4.01.09 / Tuesday - Sunday / 12:00 - 19:00 An artist�s work should not be viewed solely in terms of creation; it is also an act of resistance. But what does it mean to resist? Most of all, it means to have the strength to de-create what exists, to de-create reality, to be stronger than what is already there.� Giorgio Agamben In the media, historic events obey the laws of the media. They are simplified and misrepresented in single dimension. The false economics of current events and info-entertainment that govern the news grind reality up. Reality no longer has anywhere to flee. We see either clich�s (the repetition and proliferation of the same thing, over and over) or we see nothing at all (discrimination against context and background, or censure). In both cases, there is a form of blindness whereby the world can no longer be looked at and the viewer is shipwrecked. The media knows only the here and now, that which is fleeting and bears no inner memory. The media shows facts over which we have no power. Interstitial Zones wishes to make a stand against the politics of invisibility with which the media confront us on a daily basis. How can we possibly speak of �images� when the surfeit of �information� is such as it is? How might we again retrieve the rational from the emotional, the sensational? How do we touch on new political conditions if they continue, by definition, to be a blind spot for the media? Curated by Paul Willemsen with contributions by Fran�ois Bucher, Guy Debord, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Christoph Draeger, Claire Fontaine, Joan Fontcuberta, Jean-Luc Godard, Armin Linke, Gianni Motti, Melik Ohanian, Shelly Silver, Speculative Archive, Aldo Tambelli and Klaus vom Bruch et alia. http://www.argosarts.org/articles.do?id=452 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cityscapes, mind maps 6:30 PM October 22nd with Beatrice Gibson, Peter Downsborough, Ken Kobland, Shelly Silver, Herman Asselberghs Bank Gallery 217 Florida Road Morningside, Durban South Africa http://www.bankgallery.co.za/exhibition.php?sid=14 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Conversations on the Contemporary Artists and the Election 6:30 PM Monday October 1st Join filmmakers Emily Kunstler, Dara Greenwald, Brian Spinks, and Shelly Silver for a night of screenings, argument, and conversation, moderated by artist Mary Billyou art in general 79 walked street new york city 212 219 0473 http://www.artingeneral.org/events/899 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Near Sighted, Far Out in complete world 7:00 PM Friday September 26th at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center 596 Brodway (@ Houston), Suite 602 NYC with performance by Tommy Mintz, Video by Lilly McElroy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VIDEO DUMBO OPENING NIGHT in complete world 7:30 PM Friday September 26th followed by The Presidential Debate (in 3-D) and other aural and visual delights Galapagos Art Space 16 Main Street Brooklyn, NY http://www.videodumbo.org/08-opening-night-s.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PREMIERE!!!! in complete world part of the series Conversations with Contemporary Artists Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Screening and Discussion http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9753&ref=calendar 5:00 - 6:00 Screening introduced by filmmaker http://www.moma.org/calendar/films.php?id=10598&ref=calendar The Museum of Modern Art 4 W. 54th Street The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building The Celeste Bartos Theater - 3 Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, moderates the discussion. in complete world is a feature-length documentary made up of street interviews done throughout NYC. Mixing political questions (�Are we responsible for the government we get?�) with more broadly existential ones (�Do you feel you have control over your life?'), the film centers on the tension between individual and collective responsibility. in complete world can be seen as a user's manual for citizenship in the 21st century, as well as a glimpse into the opinions and self-perceptions of a diverse group of Americans. It is a testament to the people of NYC in this new millennium, who freely offer up thoughtful, provocative and at times tender revelations to a complete stranger, just because she asked. TICKETS ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) are available online or at the Museum at the lobby information desk or the Film desk. (reservations recommended!) Conversations with Contemporary Artists is a series where leading contemporary artists discuss their work, the creative process, and issues in contemporary art. http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9753&ref=calendar !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! response: in complete world part of Come Out & Play 6 days of projects organized by Azeb Worku Sibane, Vicky Shick, Daniel Seiple, Sheree Rose, Radhika Subramaniam, and Shelly Silver at apexart 291 Church Street (between Walker and White) NYC tel. +212 431 5270 Saturday June 14th 11am - 6pm: Daytime activities 6:30pm - 8pm: Film screening On the 14th of June, in this presidential election year, Shelly Silver proposes a day of questions and answers centered around individual and collective responsibility*, or, more specifically, where we find ourselves as American citizens in this place (NYC) at this time (2008). These are the issues taken up by a large group of New Yorkers in Silver's soon-to-be-finished film in complete world *The definition of the term responsibility is: answerable (to another, for something), from the Latin responsus: 'to respond.' Starting with the word 'responsibility' leads quickly to the necessity for discourse. 11:00 am � 6 pm: The day's activities will include screenings, questions, and a chance to respond, as visitors will be asked to write and post answers to a series of questions, including those listed above. 6:30 pm � 8:30 pm: The evening's activity will include a preview screening of, and discussion around in complete world with a soon-to-be-disclosed moderator. Stay tuned. http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/comeout/silver.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SELF-CONFESSION VS. EXPLOITATION curated by Florian W�st IMPAKT FESTIVAL Filmtheater 'Hoogt, Hoogt 4 & Theater Kikker, Ganzenmarkt 4, Utrecht Privacy issues, confrontational self-portraits, camera scrutiny and the internet as public diary Under the pressures of a highly individualized world, the engagement with the Self represents a never ending source for cultural production, from the literary diary of the 19th century to personal video clips on the internet that facilitate a new immediacy to make one's intimate life public. Against this background,"Self-confession vs. Exploitation" examines the ambivalent relationship between privacy and intrusion, the integrity of the subject and the discerning gaze of the camera. with Friedl Kubelka, Joyce Wieland, Andy Warhol, Warren Sonbert, George Kuchar, Michael Brynntrup, Lisa Steele, Sadie Benning, Isabelle Prim, Jozef Robakowski... http://www.impakt.nl !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MASoMENOScine Proyecciones curated by Berta Sichel SUICIDE May 6th, 8:00 pm Centro Andaluz de Arte Conemporaneo Seville, Spain !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nationalism is Sausage Harun Farocki - Leben BRD Shelly Silver - Former East Former West May 1st, 8:30 pm WORM Rotterdam, Amsterdam Two films and two critical dissections of modern life in Germany, or at least the Germany of the early 1990s, before and after reunification. Farocki�s �How to Survive in the FRG� reveals a Germany where nothing occurs without rehearsal and preparation, whereas Shelly Silver�s Former East Former West, filmed two years post re-unification questions the whole concept of nationhood and shared language, responses from her interviewees revealing something which could not have been prepared for. http://www.wormweb.nl/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! High Risk Citizen organized by Mary Billyou & Eva D�az Art in General 6th Floor Gallery 79 Walker Street New York, New York 10013 opening Thursday April 17, 6-8pm show runs 04.17.08 � 05.03.08 High Risk Citizen explores forms of political resistance and public engagement today, as considered by contemporary artists working in film and video. The works in the exhibition move between depressed responses to the ways in which collective, political efficaciousness has been curtailed, and euphoric re-imaginings of sites of robust social and civic culture. with Peggy Ahwesh; Max Almy; Bryan Boyce; Harun Farocki; Glass Bead Collective; Benjamin Gerdes; Neil Goldberg; Sabine Gruffat; Leopold Kessler; Les LeVeque; Jeanne Liotta; Van McElwee; The Neistat Brothers; NYC Ya Basta; Mary Patten; Martha Rosler; Keith Sanborn; Shelly Silver; Brian Spinks, EDaniel Tucker; The Yes Men; Susan Youssef and others. http://www.artingeneral.org/events/874 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Only Possible City curated by Michael Crane, Edward Kihn & Ryan Garrett Friday April 4th, 6:30 pm Anthology Film Archives with John Menick, Matthew Buckingham, Gerald Byrne, Harun Farocki, Manuel De Landa, Redmond Entwistle, Tran Van Thuy part of The New York Underground Film Festival http://theonlypossiblecity.info/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Real Fiction curated by Nicole Rebmann Friday March 7th, 2008 with Abigail Child, John Smith, Aki Nakazaway, Anna Berger, Simon Ellis, etc. Kunst Muenster Speicher II, Hafenweg 28 Muenster, Germany www.muenster.de/stadt/ausstellungshalle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Viva Fotofilm! curated by Gusztav Hamos, Katja Pratschke, Thomas Tode part of Minden Mozi! February 23rd - 25th Ludwig Muzeum Budapest, Hungary www.lumu.hu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Night School Martha Rosler Art & Social Life; The Case for Video Art February 28th, 29th, March 1, 2 The New Museum, NYC with Eleanor Antin, Max Almy, Dara Birnbaum, Christine Choy, Cecelia Condit and many many others http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/5160 http://www.newmuseum.org !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Human Resources curated by Sara Reisman part of LMCC's Out of Site January 8th - February 3rd @SEAPORT! 133 Beekman Street (entrance on Front Street) artists Manuel Acevedo, Jane Benson, Michael Cataldi, Lishan Chang, Carola Dertnig, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Terence Gower, Yoko Inoue, Hoom Kim, Catarina Leitao, Diane Meyer, Shelly Silver, Shinique Smith Tuesday - Thursday, Sunday 12pm - 5pm Friday & Saturday 12pm - 7pm http://www.lmcc.net/art/residencies/tenyear/resources/index.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Retrospective: Shelly Silver MARFICI/Cine Independiente Mar del Plata, Argentina November 2 - 11th, 2007 http://www.festivalmdp.org/2007/informacion.php?subaction=showfull&id=1190319289&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2& http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2007/11/562073.php http://www.puntonoticias.com/noticias_de_mar_del_plata.asp?codigo=5123>http://www.puntonoticias.com/noticias_de_mar_del_plata.asp?codigo=5123 http://planocenital.blogspot.com/2007/11/marfici-retrospectiva-de-shelly-silver.html>http://planocenital.blogspot.com/2007/11/marfici-retrospectiva-de-shelly-silver.html http://www.litoral.com.ar/index.php/diarios/2007/11/08/escenariosysociedad/SOCI-03.html>http://www.litoral.com.ar/index.php/diarios/2007/11/08/escenariosysociedad/SOCI-03.html http://www.blogsandocs.com/docs/?p=178&pp=1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Focus: Shelly Silver BIM/Biennial of the Moving Image St. Gervais, Geneva Switzerland October 12-20th, 2007 http://www.12bim.ch/focus.php?id=26 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Viva Fotofilm Symposium und Filmreihe an der HFF "Konrad Wolf" June 6th - 9th Presentation by Shelly Silver Thursday June 7th, 12pm Discussion, 5pm Hochschule f�r Film und Fernsehen Potsdam-Babelsberg Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11 Kinosaal, Raum 1104 14482 Potsdam Brandenburg Germany with Gusztav Hamos, Thomas Tode, Katja Pratschke, Christa Bluemlinger, Katharina Sieverding, Siegfried Zielinski... Additional films by Agnes Varda, Sergei Eisenstein, Chris Marker, Hollis Frampton, John Smith, Nagisa Oshima, Sabine Hoepfners... http://www.hff-potsdam.de/_deutsch/aktuelles/tagungen-und-symposien.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cine esayo Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain April 11th - May 10th with Angela Melitopoulos, Barbara Hammer, Jean-Luc Godard, Deborah Stratman, Albertina Carri... Conference with Shelly Silver Wednesday May 9th, 8pm Santa Isabel 52, Madrid http://www.museoreinasofia.es !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! evolution de l'art a collaboration between SPACE, Bratislava, Slovakia (Juraj Carny, Diana Majdakova and Lydia Pribisova) and Cesare Pietroiusti. Evolution de l�Art is a gallery for contemporary art which only sells artworks that are immaterial, with no physical residue. It does not release certificates of authenticity, nor statements or receipts. EdlA will represent, on a non-exclusive basis, artists whose artwork is, at least in the case of some specific projects, alien from any physical-material component. EdlA offers the possibility of becoming contemporary art collectors to the widest possible audience. Therefore the gallery will offer artworks at a range of very different prices, including some that can be purchased for a few Euros. Purchases can be made at the headquarters of the gallery (Lazaretska 9, Bratislava) or through the website www.evolutiondelart.org. with Ayreen Anastas, John Menick, Michael Rakowitz, Wolfgang Staehle, Giancarlo Norese, Mira Podmanicka, Roman Vasseur , Nina Hoechtl... Please visit and buy the immaterial: http://crazycurators.org/edla/artists/s_silver.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLUS QUE PARFAIT at The Yokohama Museum of Art February, 2007 Panorama de l'Art vid�o curated by Stephen Sarrazin The Yokohama Museum of Art 3-4-, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, 220-0012 JAPAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dear Mosquito of My Heart at The CCA Tel Aviv March 13th, 2007 8 pm The Center for Contemporary Art/CCA Kalisher Street #5 Tel Aviv with Michel Auder, Alix Pearlstein, Michelle Handelman, Abbey Williams... An evening of video and performance exploring notions of love, commitment, intimacy, desire and the need for a close bond with someone. Curated by Danna Taggar http://www.cca.org.il/events.asp !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No United States at Kunsthalle Wien 01. Februar - 28. Februar 2007 Eine Kooperation mit der Ursula Blickle Stiftung und der Universit�t f�r Angewandte Kunst Wien. "It�s easy enough to locate a country physically, but how to locate it aesthetically, politically, intellectually or emotionally? If you believe in polls, 36% of Americans are worried about global warming and 63% are absolutely certain of the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. On a more quantifiable level, 85% of Americans don�t own passports and 12.5% Americans are below the poverty line. Some of these trends are global � the assets of the richest 447 people on the planet equal the assets of the poorest 2.5 billion people, 52% of the world population." When I started putting together this program, I knew there was no way to �capture� a balanced or complete picture of the United States. Instead I chose videos based on the way they reverberated with and expanded on recent events, moods and histories, jamming personal with political, inside and outside, a surface agitation with a deeper frenzy. Rather than expressing unity, they each in fact point to various breakdowns, whether within the image itself, or in the realms of individual or collective belief." "Als ich anfing, dieses Programm zusammenzustellen, wusste ich, dass es unm�glich ist, ein ausgewogenes oder vollst�ndiges Bild der Vereinigten Staaten �fassen� zu k�nnen. Stattdessen w�hlte ich die Videos danach aus, wie sie die dortigen j�ngsten Ereignisse, Stimmungen und Geschichten reflektierten und diese weiter ausf�hrten, mischte Pers�nliches mit Politischem, Innen und Au�en, eine oberfl�chliche Unruhe mit einem tieferen Gef�hl der Panik. Vielmehr als Geschlossenheit zu demonstrieren, weisen alle Videos die unterschiedlichsten Br�che auf - im Bild selbst oder im Bereich des individuellen oder kollektiven Glaubens." Teilnehmende K�nstlerInnen Peggy Ahwesh, Paul Chan, Les Leveque, Takeshi Murata, Shelly Silver, Jenny Perlin, Brian Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky Kuratorin: Shelly Silver more details: http://www.kunsthallewien.at/de/events/events.shtml?year=2007 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vid�oformes a la galerie du Haut-Pav� Curated by Gabriel Soucheyre with J�rome Lefdup, Simone Michelin, Triny Prada, Shelly Silver, Pascale Weber.... du 6 au 17 f�vrier vernissage le mardi 6 f�vrier de 18h a 21h30 GALERIE DU HAUT-PAVE 3 queai Montebello, Paris more details: http://www.haut-pave.org !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stateless Cinema Hails and Regales the Chiefs, President's Day at the Black Cat Monday, Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. Black Cat (The Backstage) 1811 14th St. NW Washington, DC 20009 202.667.7960 Join Stateless Cinema for our first-ever screening as we pay strange homage to the current leader of the free world and a few of his esteemed predecessors. Only $7! (all proceeds go to the artists whose work is being shown) Featuring: RE:THE_OPERATION by Paul Chan; Bush Beatin� by Kristen Anchor (artist in person); From Bush To Hitler In 20 Copies by Brian Milbrand & Tom Holt; Small Lies, Big Truth by Shelly Silver; La Corona and Decision 80 by Jim Finn; Mondo Ford by Ricardo Fratelli & Anastacia Nublitoni more info: http://www.blackcatdc.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fotofilm at Arsenal Kino Berlin Curated by Katja Pratschke, Guszt�v H�mos & Thomas Tode 11/24/06-11/26/06 with Alan Resnais, Chris Marker, Hubert Fichtes & Leonore Maus, Katja Prtaschkes & Gusztav Hamos, Agnes Varda, Jean-Pierre Jeunets, Sergei Eisentstein, Raul Ruiz, John Smith.... Symposium with: Hartmut Bitomsky, Ludger Derenthal, Gusztav Hamos, Christa Bluemenlinger, Thomas Tode, Katja Pratschke, Raymond Bellour, Hubertus von Amerlunzen more details: http://www.fdk-berlin.de/de/arsenal/programm.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Civic Performance at Staller Center An exhibition of artists' projects in a variety of media that examine the relationships between individuals and their communities Staller Center Stony Brook University Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY November 4th - December 9th, 2006 curated by Grady Gerbracht Harell Fletcher, Pedro Lasch, Pia Lindman, John Malpede & the Los Angeles Povery Department, Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry, Angel Nevarrez & Alex Rivera, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Krzysztof Wodiczko !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vor den Spiegeln at Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt curated by Kathrin Brinkmann & Marie-H�l�ne Gutberlet with: Derek Jarman, Bjorn Melhus, Ken Jacobs, Michel Gondry, Christophe Girardet, Matthias Mueller, Miranda Pennell, etc. November 19th, 8:30 pm Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm Waldschmidtstr. 4 Frankfurt/Main Reservierungen unter Tel. 069 - 40 58 95 20 www.mousonturm.de !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Land Is My Land at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien with: Hatice Ayten, Eren Onsoz, Aysun Bademsoy, etc. October 28th - December 3rd, 2006 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Mariannenplatz 2 10997 berlin u-bahn kottbusser tor Tel.:030/90298-1455 t�glich: 12 - 19 uhr !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sex, Death & Everything in Between at Listen With Your Eyes with: Jay Rosenblatt, Hope Tucker, Josh Weinstein, etc. Sat., Nov. 11, 8 pm Rosendale Cafe 434 Main St., Rosendale, NY $8 at the door more details: http://listenwithyoureyes.org/Microcinemas/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at Cucalorus Film Festival November 8 - 11, 2006 Wilmington, North Carolina more details: http://www.cucalorus.org/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at FLEX FEST - Florida Experimental Film Festival November 2-5, 2006 more details: http://www.flexfest.org/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at Taiwan International Documentary Festivall October 27- November 5, 2006 more details: http://www.tidf.org.tw/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at Women Make Waves, Taipei, Taiwan October 13- October 27th more details: http://www.wmw.com.tw/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at Frauen Film Festival October, 2006 Cologne, Germany more details: http://www.frauenfilmfestival.eu/english.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! desiredescape.net website launch! I�m very pleased to announce the launch of the website: http://www.desiredescape.net an experiment in community building and storytelling. Andrea, the creator of the website, is the fictional heroine of my upcoming film project �desiredescape.net.� She starts the website as a means of escaping her life in a conservative Upstate New York town. In her own words: �I want this to be a website for all of us who wish to escape some part of our lives (our job, famly, relationship, political or economic situation, city, country world), where we can share stories about our current lives, as well as our plans, hopes and strategies for our desired escape.� The stories Andrea receives will influence the trajectory of her story, and the images, sounds and videos uploaded to the site will be incorporated into the final film. So if you need to escape (or have successfully escaped already) please visit and contribute often! And if you�ve never wanted to escape, but are nevertheless curious about those of us who do, please visit too. Also, if you have any suggestions about how the site is functioning (or not) please let me know. We�re still ironing out the kinks, expanding usability and are actively looking for feedback. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at Videoex 2006, Zurich, Switzerland May 18th - 28th more details soon: http://www.videoex.ch/index.php?step=index !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at El Museo Tamayo Arte Contempor�neo, a trav�s de Panor�mica archivo video_dumbo, videoarte contempor�neo de Nueva York curado por Caspar Stracke y Gabriela Monroy Auditorio del Museo Tamayo Arte Contempor�neo Paseo de la Reforma y Ghandi s/n Bosque de Chapultepec, 11580 M�xico, D.F. Mi�rcoles 3 de mayo de 2006 a las 19:30 horas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen May 4th - 9th, 2006 more details: http://www.kurzfilmtage.de !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fotofilme - Symposium und Filmretrospektive April 28th - 30th Dokumentarfilminitiative im Fimbuero Aula der Kunsthochschule f�r Medien Filzengraben 2 K�ln, Germany more info at: http://www.dokumentarfilminitiative.de/contnav/index_archiv.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at Images Festival, Toronto, Canada Tuesday April 18th, 7:00 pm more info at: http://www.imagesfestival.com/index-home.php !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shelly Silver at Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand 2006 Festival March14th � 18th Presentation moderated by Stephen Sarrazin Saturday March 18th http://ww2.nat.fr/videoformes/Festival/2006/VIDEO/VIDEO_THEMATIQUES_06.html What I�m Looking For Manifestation Videoformes Exposition at Ranquet (h�tel de Fonfreyde) March 15th � April 2nd 34 rue des Gras http://ww2.nat.fr/videoformes/Festival/2006/EXPOS/EXPOS_RANQUET-FONFREYDE_06.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For at Viper Festival, Basel, Switzerland March 19th, 2:00 pm Stadtkino Basel http://www.viper.ch/2006/content/main.php?id=SCG8KS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Retrospective 12+Contemporary Experimental Images Presented by: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Art World Magazine January 20- February 15th, 2006 Venue: 2nd floor Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art With Martin Sastre, Carlos A. Morelli, Shelly Silver, Lynne Sachs, Scott Stark, Peter Rose, Lisa Hammer, Bill Brand, Katy Martin, Jeanne Liotta , Ken Kobland and Van McElmee http://www.duolunart.com/exhibitions_&_events/upcoming_e_huigu.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For on Exploding Television: Sex and Sadness on Thursday January 26 @ 19.00, 02.00 and 09.00 hrs. Central European Time; and on Friday January 27 to Sunday February 5 @ 16.00, 24.00 and 08.00 hrs Central European Time; on the digital channel of the Satellite of Love's website: www.explodingtelevision.net Sex and Sadness offers eleven video art programs that explore the basic notions of desire and conflict that form the backbone of everyday life. including: Michael Snow, Miranda July, Christian Jankowski, Doug Fishbone, Francis Al�s, Bjorn Melhus, John Bock, Emanuelle Antille, Pipilotti Rist�. Curated by Jan Schuijren organized by: Witte de With center for contemporary art International Film Festival Rotterdam !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I�m Looking For in Aufl�sung (I) - High Definition January 14th - February 12th at the NGBK Neue Gesellschaft f�r bildende Kunst e.V Oranienstra�e 25 - 10999 Berlin 030-616 513 0 curated by RealismusStudio http://www.ngbk.de/typo3/index.php?id=103 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/02/01/a0252.1/text http://www.transmediale.de/page/detail/detail.0.projects.455.3.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shelly Silver: Make a Wish a six-night retrospective at Kino Arsenal, Berlin January 5th-January 16th http://www.fdk-berlin.de/de/arsenal/programmtext-anzeige.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=439&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=194&cHash=fceb228c95 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/01/09/a0300.1/text !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ecran d'art, Shelly Silver videos & films at Argos What I'm Looking For, suicide, 1, small lies, Big Truth January 12th, 2006, 21:30 Cinema Arenberg, Koninginnegalerij 26, 1000 Brussels http://www.argosarts.org/articles.do?id=275 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands Honorable Mention shared with Jenny Perlin's Review http://www.impakt.nl/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l'image comtemporaine Saint-Gervais Gen�ve Winner: Grand Prix de la Ville de Gen�ve http://www.11bim.ch/index.php?id=82 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at IDFA/International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam http://www.idfa.nl/idfa_en_filmdescription.asp?filmid=21115 http://www.idfa.nl/idfa_en_filmsbysection.asp?part=ParaDocs:%20Let#boven !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at INVIDEO 2005, Milan more info soon: http://www.mostrainvideo.com/2005/invideo%202005-e.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona Monday 14th November at 20.30 Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona http://alternativa.cccb.org/2005/index_eng1.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin Friday November 18th, 5 pm Jeu de Paume, Paris http://www.art-action.org/en_prog_05_paris.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at KunstFilm Biennale Koln/Art Film Bienniale Cologne October 19 � 24 More details to come: http://www.kunstfilmbiennale.de/info2005.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Festival Nouveau Cin�ma de Montreal October 13th � 23rd More details to come: http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/2005 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Video Dumbo Festival 2005 October 14 � 16 More details to come: www.dumboartscenter.org !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Mill Valley Film Festival October 6�16 the Cin�Arts @ Sequoia Theatre 142 Throckmorton Theatre (Mill Valley) the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center (San Rafael) More details to come: www.mvff.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at MadCat Women's International Film Festival Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California Thursday October 6th http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at HD Fest NYC Saturday October 1st, 2:00 PM The Goldcrest Post Screening Room 799 West Washington Street www.hdfest.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Woodstock Film Festival Winner: HONORABLE MENTION for Best Experimental Short Jurors: Gill Holland, Director Morgan J. Freeman and Debra Granik Woodstock Town Hall Saturday October 1st, 12:30PM (ZIZEK! will be shown following WILF) Upstate Films II Sunday October 2nd, 1:00PM (ZIZEK! will be shown following WILF) http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/festival2005/details.php?id=12983 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! suicide in The World is a Safer Place Opening Thursday September 22nd curated by Francis Gomila The Globe Gallery Newcastle, England www.globegallery.org !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Conversations at the Edge an evening with Shelly Silver presented by the Art Institute of Chicago Thursday September 15th, 6 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Theater http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2005/september/edge.html#anchor4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 in "A Knock at the Door..." Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Avenue NYC Monday September 12th, 8:00 PM curated by Seth Cameron, Creative Director of the LMCC, the show will also take place at The Southstreet Seaport Museum and The Cooper Union Art Gallery http://www.lmcc.net/knock/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Video Lisboa FORUM LISBOA 07 A 11 SETEMBRO Thursday September 8th, 21:30/9:30 PM http:://www.videolisboa.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Seoul Film Festival September 1 � 8 More details to come: http://www.senef.net/eng/film/moving3_01.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Rooftop Films New York Non-Fiction Friday August 12th, 8:30 PM The lawn at Automotive High School 50 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. http://rooftopfilms.com/show_081205.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at 12th Chicago Underground Film Festival Monday August 22 at 5:45 PM. at the Music Box Theater 3733 N. Southport Ave. 1 (773) 871-6604 http://www.cuff.org !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival Saturday June 18 at 9:30 PM in Shorts Program 4 AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Road http://www.silverdocs.com/2005 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at The Newport International Film Festival Saturday June 11 at 6:30 PM Newport Art Museum Newport, Rhode Island http://www.newportfilmfestival.com/2005/program.asp !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at LisboaPhoto 2005 Estados da Imagem, Instantes e Intervalos State of the Image, Instants and Inervals curated by S�rgio Mah & Raymond Bellour Centro Cultural de Bel�m 5/25/05-8/21/05 with Chantal Akerman Jean-Louis Boissier Dara Birnbaum David Claerbout James Coleman Pedro Costa Masaki Fujihata Gianikian/Lucchi Thierry Kuntzel Shelly Silver Michael Snow Jeff Wall http://www.lisboaphoto.pt/# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For West Coast Premiere at PDX Film Festival Friday April 22nd, 9:30 PM Guild Theater Portland, Oregon http://www.peripheralproduce.com/pdxff.php !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at European Media Art Festival Osnabr�ck in the program Related Souls Friday April 22nd at 10:00 pm Lagerhalle Osnabr�ck, Germany http://www.emaf.de/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Former East/Former West in achtung berlin Friday, April 15 at 4pm at the Hackesche H�fe Filmtheater. Hackesche H�fe, Hof 1 Rosenthaler Str. 40/41 Berlin www.achtungberlin.de www.hackesche-hoefe.org !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For at Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente Saturday April 17th, 10pm with Lynn Hershman's Teknolust http://www.bafici.gov.ar/ingles/programacion_cine_de_artistasi.php !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For French Premiere at Cin�ma du R�el, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in the program D�tours March 12th at 12.15 March 13th at 14.30 http://www.bpi.fr/uploadfile/reel2005hc.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shelly Silver presented by UM School of Art & Design as part of the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Lecture Series March 17, 2005 at 5:00 p.m. Michigan Theater http://michtheater.org/schedule_descriptions.php and as part of The Ann Arbor Film Festival Wednesday, March 16, 3:00 pm Michigan Theater http://www.aafilmfest.org/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For European Premiere at The Berlin International Film Festival International Forum of New Cinema installation: february 16 - march 14, opening: february 16, 11:00 kino arsenal, potsdamer platz 2, berlin discussion: february 16, 11:00, 4kitchens, arsenal screening: february 11, 23.00, arsenal screening: feburary 17, 22:30, cinemaxX 3 http://www.fdk-berlin.de/forum/en/program/video_installations/what_im_looking_for/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Former East/Former West in �berreichweiten Zur Wahrnehmung der DDR in der aktuellen Kunst Perceptions of the DDR in contemporary art 17. Februar - 24. M�rz 2005 mit David Adam, Bettina Allamoda, Peter Bauer, Amanda Dunsmore, Nina Fischer / Maroan el Sani, Jean-Luc Godard, Katharina Hohmann / Stefan Dornbusch, Peter Kees, Anne K�nig / Axel Do�mann / Jan Wenzel, Wiebke Loeper, Cornelius Mangold, Maix Mayer, Peggy Meinfelder, Michaela Meli�n, Marcel Oph�ls, Jens Rudolph, Felix Ruffert, Pavel Schnabel, Shelly Silver, Sibylle Windisch / Nicole Wolf videoabend Videoarbeiten von Shelly Silver Mittwoch, 23. M�rz, 20 Uhr http://www.motorenhalle.de/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For World Premiere Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street NYC November 22nd, 6:30 pm shown with Triage, 2004, a double projection by Michael Snow and Carl Brown (introduced by Shelly Silver, Michael Snow & Carl Brown) Saturday, January 8th, 5:00 pm (the filmmaker will be present) Saturday January 22nd, 2:00 pm as part of Premieres A woman photographs moments of intimacy in public space. She approaches people on the street and, as so much of the social has moved to the web, through an ad on an Internet dating service: �I am looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves�� What I�m Looking For narrates this adventure at the intersection between public space and the internet, still and moving images, control and desire. http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2004/premieres.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PKW, Singapore R(A) Rated Artistic/Artists Take On Cinema Shelly Silver Special Wednesday Nights At 7:00 pm November 3rd suicide �audacious, juicy, destabilizing, suicide follows the exploding desires of a fictional heroine as she searches for a fresh start, or at least some decent sex�.� November 10th small lies, Big Truth �In turn funny, disturbing and glisteningly sensual, small lies, Big Truth is about love, power and the joys and banality of sex in the late 20th century.� November 17th The Houses That Are Left �A story of mortality, friendship, revenge and murder, as two friends come together to figure out how to live, while being besieged by hostile messages from the dead�.� Plastique Kinetic Worms 61 & 63 Kerbau Road Singapore 219185 Tel: 6292 7783 Email: admin@pkworms.org.sg http://www.pkworms.org.sg/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Paris Premiere suicide Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin #8 Thursday, October 28th Grande Halle de la Villette - 211, avenue Jean Jaur�s - 75019 Paris - M�tro : Porte de la Villette http://www.art-action.org !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Black Milk June 30 � July 31, 2004 Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 30, 6-8pm MARVELLI GALLERY 526 WEST 26TH STREET, 2ND FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10001 T: 212-627 3363 F:212-627 3363 Marvelli Gallery is pleased to present Black Milk, a group exhibition that brings together young contemporary artists whose work touches on issues related to suicide. The multimedia exhibition will include work by Charles Cohen, Ian Cooper, Elizabeth Gray & Molly Smith, Rachel Howe, Jasmine Kastel, Molly Larkey, Rahshia Linendoll, Tim Maxwell, McCallum & Tarry, Alex McQuilkin, Adam Pendleton, Mike Quinn, Shelly Silver and Angela Strassheim. Black Milk, curated by Monica Espinel, will be on view from June 30 - July 31, 2004. For further information please contact Monica Espinel at 212 627 3363 or info@marvelligallery.com. http://www.marvelligallery.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPECIAL JURY PRIZE suicide Media Forum, Moscow International Film Festival subverts the norms of both travelogue and video diary A. O. Scott, The New York Times Audacious, juicy, destabilizing, suicide follows the exploding desires of a fictional filmmaker, taking us on a wild international ride through malls, and airports, as she searches for a fresh start, a leap into the void, or at least some decent sex.... http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/index-e.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAZIL PREMIERE suicide a fiction film by Shelly Silver 70:00/2003 June 16th, 7:30 pm Mostra Video Itau Cultural Junho Belo Horizonte Palacio das Artes - Cine Humberto Mauro www.papaciodasartes.com.br June 24th, 7:00 pm Rio de Janeiro Paco Imperial - Sala Estacao Paco www.pacoimperial.com.br www.pacoimperial.com.br !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Former East/Former West in "�berreichweiten" ACC Galerie Weimar May 15 - June 20, 2004 with: Pavel Schnabel "Brothers and Sisters" Marcel Oph�ls "November Days" Herwig Kipping "The Land behind the Rainbow" Jean-Luc Godard "Allemagne neuf z�ro" ACC Galerie Weimar Burgplatz 1+2 D-99423 Weimar Germany phone: 01149.179.6674255 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shpatzirin* *the yiddish term for a stroll without destination celebrating jewish culture & the avant-garde Thursday June 3, @ dark Former East/Former West Seward Park, corner of East Broadway & Essex Street !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MATERNAL METAPHORS: Artists/Mothers/Artwork April 30 - May 23, 2004 The Rochester Contemporary (RoCo) http://www.rochestercontemporary.org/matmeta.html Exhibiting Artists: Monica Bock, Myrel Chernick, Renee Cox, Judy Gelles, Judy Glantzman, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Mary Kelly, Ellen McMahon, Gail Rebhan, Aura Rosenberg, Shelly Silver, Beth Warshofsky, Sarah Webb and Marion Wilson. Opening Reception: Friday April 30 from 5-8pm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! suicide Sunday April 25th European Media Arts Festival Osnabruck, Germany http://www.emaf.de/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm Looking For a work-in-progress (video & photos) at LMCC/Workspace: The Woolworth Building Open Studios Saturday March 20th & Sunday March 21st 12-6 pm For security reasons, an RSVP is essential to the open studio. Online anytime: http://www.Lmcc.net/rsvp no later than 4 p.m., March 17th. or contact info@shellysilver.com The Woolworth Building 233 Broadway New York, NY between Park Place and Barclay Street, 33rd Floor Subway and Bus Directions: N/R to City Hall 2/3 to Park Place A/C to Chambers M1 and M6 to Broadway and City Hall !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EUROPEAN PREMIERE! suicide a fiction film by Shelly Silver 70:00/2003 subverts the norms of both travelogue and video diary A. O. Scott, The New York Times at the berlin international film festival international forum of new cinema monday february 9th, 8:00 pm kino arsenal potsdamer strasse 2 Audacious, juicy, destabilizing, suicide follows the exploding desires of a fictional filmmaker, taking us on a wild international ride through malls, and airports, as she searches for a fresh start, a leap into the void, or at least some decent sex.... http://www.berlinale.de/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 37 Stories About Leaving Home 52:00, 1996 Monday October 13th, 6:00 pm at MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre Monday October 13th, 6:00 pm 127 East 23 Street (at Lexington Avenue)/New York, NY 10010 212-777-4900 An intimate portrait of a group of Japanese women talking about their lives, families and society. Mixing childhood memories, frank statements, epic events and quotidian details; the film bears witness to the strength of these women and the difficulty of their choices, as they navigate between personal needs and familial and societal pressures. The interviews are framed by a traditional Japanese folktale; a magical and somewhat shocking narrative of a mother's search for her abducted daughter, kidnapped by a monster on the eve of her wedding. playing with: Nobody's Business 1996. Directed by Alan Berliner, part of the program Standby: No Technical Difficulties' celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Standby Program (check out the whole program running from October 9-18, 2003 at http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/index.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!