Jeff Daniel Silva

Curricula vitae (updated Sept. 2008)


Education


MFAVermont College of Fine Art (Montpelier, VT)

B. S.Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY) in Cinema & Photography with Minor in Anthropology


Awards and Fellowships


2008 LEF Production Grant for “For the Price of Freedom”
2007 Harvard Film Study Center fellowship support for “Chilangolandia” 16mm film

2005 MIT Council for the Arts fellowship support for “Balkan Rhapsodies” documentary

2004 Boston Phoenix “Best of 2004” for Balagan Film Series

2004 Distinguished for Cinematography, Napoidanza Festival, Italy (ARCUS)

2003 Somerville Arts Council Grant (Artist Fellowship Grant)

2002 Boston Film Critics Society “Best film series of the year” for Balagan

2002 Somerville Arts Council Grant (Video installation Arcus)

2002 Brookline Council for the Arts Grant (Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series)

2002 LEF Foundation Grant (Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series)

2001 Boston Film Critics Society “Best film series of the year” for Balagan

2001 MIT Excellence award for Leading Change

2001 Boston First Night 2002 Grant (Interactive performances with live video)

2000 Somerville Arts Council Grant (16mm film Ebbing)

            2000 Instructor appreciation award CCTV


Professional Career


Visiting Professor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Film Department (Fall 2008)

Advanced Film Prodcution


Adjunct Professor, Emerson College, Department of Visual and Media Arts (2006 - Current)

Documentary History and Theory

“Other” Cinema: Exploring Cultural Representation through Non-Fiction film

16mm Film I


Teaching Assistant Harvard University, Visual & Environmental Studies VES (2006 - Current)

Sensory Ethnography with Lucien Taylor

Image/Sound/Culture with Lucien Taylor


Artist Teacher, Boston Art Institute, MFA thesis advisor (Current)


Producer & Multi-Media Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1998-2006)


Freelance Video Producer, Cinematographer, & Editor (1996-present)


Co-Director & Curator, Balagan Film Series, Coolidge Corner Theatre (2000-present)


Adjunct Professor, Tufts University, Ex College (2003)


Graduate Student Advisor, Lesley University (2003-2006)


Instructor, Boston Film & Video Foundation, BFVF (1998-2002)


Instructor, Cambridge Community Television, CCTV (1998-2003)


Videographer, ICAST Multi-Media Company, CMGI affiliate (2000)

Films, Videos and Moving-Image Installation Projects (selected)


•Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War (2008)

•Chilangolandia: Capital in Movement (2007)

•Ashes, Ashes… 4min (2005)

•Dressed to Kill 5min (2003/4)

•Line 5min loop (2006)

•Second Ending 5min loop (2006)

•Movement (R)evolution: Exploring New Trends in Contemporary African Dance (2005)

•Arcus 4min, Video (2004) Collaboration with Alla Kovgan

•Ebbing 7min (2000) Collaboration with Nicola Hawkins

•Ojos Viajeros (Wandering Eyes) 30min (1998)


Selected Screenings, Exhibits & Performances


  1.     Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY, February 2008

  2.     Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival - Göttingen, Germany - May 2008

  3.     Festival Cinemateca Uruguaya - Montevideo, Uruguay - March 2008

•DocHouse Brussels, Belgium December 2007

•ForumDocBH, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, December 2007

•Valdivia International Film festival - Chile, October 2007

•DokumentART Festival - Neubrandenburg, Germany September 2007

•Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands -July 2007

•Anthology Film Archive May 2007

•Harvard Film Archive “For Life Against the War” program March 2007

•Mexico City, Festival Internacional
de Cine Contemporáneo, February 2007

•Lincoln Center- Walter Reade Theatre , January 2007

•BAC! 05 Barcelona Contemporary Art Festival, Spain, December 2005

•Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, August 2005

•Independent Film Festival of Boston, April 2005

•Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH, August 2005

•Indonesia Dance on Camera Festival, December 2004

•Betty Rymer Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago 2004

•Dance Camera West, Cal Arts June 2004

•Liquid Bodies Moving Image Festival, Toronto, CA 2004

•Paris, France Anthology Film Archives Festival of American Artists March 2003

•Greek International Film Festival 2003

•BAC! 03 Barcelona Contemporary Art Festival, Spain 2003

•Napolidanza Festival April 2003

•Walter Reade Theatre, Dance on camera Festival NY, NY 2003

•St. Petersburg, Russia December 2001

•New England Film & Video Festival 2001

•Low-Fi Video Festival, Belgrade, Yugoslavia  2000

•Guadalajara, Mexico Chroma Festival 2000

•Bar Harbor Film Festival, Maine 1999

Tremont Theatre (Boston, MA, February 2001) With Musicians: Hrvatski, Peter Kovald, Laurence Cook, & Daniel Carter

Galapagos Art and Performance Space (Brooklyn, NY, May 2000) With Musicians: Daniel Carter, The Gold Sparkle Band, and Saturnalia String trio 

Pink Pony (NYC, May 2000) With Musicians: Daniel Carter, & Saturnalia String Trio

Roxy Theatre Benefit for BFVF (Boston, MA 2000) With Musicians: Babaloo,

Old Cambridge Baptist Church (Cambridge MA, March 2000) With Musicians: Andrew Neumann & Tatsuya Nakatani

Bad Girrls Studios (Jamaica Plain, MA, Dec 1998, Nov 1999) With Musicians: Daniel Carter, William Parker, and The Gold Sparkle Band

Zeitgeist Gallery (Cambridge, MA Aug. 1999) With Musicians: Ken Fields, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and David Maxwell

•Mobius Gallery, Boston, September 1999)


Professional Associations & Memberships


Filmmakers Collaborative, Waltham, MA (2001-present)

Documentary Educational Resources - DER (2008)

Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers, AIVF (1995-2006)

Pixonik Labs- Founding Member (1999-2001)

Collateral Damage Collaborative – Founding Member (1999-present)



Conferences, Lectures, Papers and Panels


•Artist talk: DocHouse Brusels- Beursschouwburg- Brussels, Belgium – Dec. 2007

  1.     Artist talk: “The Aesthetics of Ambiguity and the Empowered Eye” - Beyond Text Conference at the Royal Anthropological Institute- Manchester, UK – June 2007

  2.     Visiting Artist Film III class SMFA, January 2007

  3.     Visiting Artist SMFA, October 2006

•Participant “Robert Flaherty film Seminar”, June 2006

•Lecturer “Video Podcasting” MIT Tech Partners Conference June 1, 2006

•Lecturer “Contemporary Alternative Cinema”, MIT, January 2005

•Guest Presenter & Panelist “Mashup Forum” July14, 2005 Somerville, MA

•Participant “Robert Flaherty film Seminar”, June 2005

•Panelist “Film Distribution and the Microcinema Movement” SMFA March 2004

•Presenter & Programmer “Special program for the Boston Jewish Film Festival” Coolidge Corner Theatre, November 2004

•Participant “Robert Flaherty film Seminar”, June 2003

•Presenter & Programmer, “Digital Shorts” Association of Moving Image Archivist AMIA, November 2003

•Presenter & Programmer, “Spaces & Places” Somerville Theatre, July 2003

•Presenter & Programmer, “Filmmaker Open Studios” Coolidge Corner Theatre, April 2003

•Presenter & Programmer, “Food For Thought: Cinematic obsession with Food” Somerville Theatre, July 2002

•Participant “Robert Flaherty film Seminar”, June 2002

•Presenter & Programmer, “Filmmaker Open Studios” Coolidge Corner Theatre, April 2002

•Panelist “Film Programming” Oni Gallery February 20002

•Presenter & Programmer, “Experiments in Form” Boston Underground Film Festival, Feb. 2001

•Team member & Contributor, NAMAC Digital Directions project (National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture), April –June  2000

•Panelist, “Going Digital” Alliance for Community Media Conference (ACMC), UMASS Boston, March 2000


Juror


•Somerville Arts Council LCC Grant awards, 2007

•SMFA Film Festival, 2006

•Somerville Arts Council LCC Grant awards, 2005

•Black Maria Film Festival pre-screen judge

•Somerville Arts Council LCC Grant awards, 2003

•MIT Film Festival, 2003


Countries Traveled:


Belgium, Belize, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Nicaragua, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, United States


Languages:English and Spanish


Web Links:

                          http://www.jeffdanielsilva.com

                                 http://www.balaganfilms.com

                                 http://www.der.org/films/filmmakers/jeff-silva.html