print   back Things I Forget to Tell Myself 2:00 minutes, 1989 "In Shelly Silver's Things I Forget To Tell Myself, a fragmented textual statement is interspersed with imagery culled from NYC, much of it cropped by the camera operator's outstretched hand. Buildings, windows, signs, pedestrians, cops and doors constitute a continuum of access and obstruction. The sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous patterns of disclosure and withholding, recognition and inobservance, are scrutinized to reveal the imprints of psychological processes and cultural codes, while testing boundaries between seeing and reading." Michael Nash, Curator, The Long Beach Museum of Art Prix du Jury, Femmes Cathodique Video Festival, Paris, France A fragmented view of a city provides this poetic examination of disclosing and withholding, what is and isn't seen, and once it is seen, how is it read? directed by Shelly Silver camera/obstruction Abby Levine, Shelly Silver, Rick Wright sound Rick Wright production & post production Rebo Studio select screenings & exhibitions Video Text, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Between Word & Image, The Museum of Modern Art & Poets House, NYC; Centre For Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski , Warsaw, Poland; The International Center for Photography, NYC; Subversive Cults/Textual Danger, ICA, London, England; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Order Of Facts, Achim Kubinsky Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany; It's Evening in America, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (Travelling); Television For Real, Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland selected broadcasts White Noise, BBC, England El Arte del Video, Atanor Television, Spain WTN/Lifestyle Television, Canada page top