Jeff Silva is a filmmaker, teacher and film programmer. Jeff works across medias and genres but his work shares a kinship with new modes of ethnographic documentary, exploring the quotidian aspects of his subjects lives, often over long spans of time. His most recently completed projects include Linefork (2016), Ivan & Ivana (2011), and Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War (2008) have been exhibited at festivals, and museums internationally, including: MoMA's Documentary Fortnight, The Viennale, BAFICI, Visions du Réel, Valdivia, and Flahertiana. A long-time affiliate of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University, Jeff helped develop the curriculum and methodology of the program at its inception, while a teaching fellow aside founder and director Lucien Taylor. Jeff has also been programming documentary and experimental cinema for the past 16 years at BALAGAN, an the offbeat and alternative screening series which he co-founded in 2000 in Boston with Alla kovgan.