Jeff Silva

Curricula vitae

 

 

Awards and Fellowships

 

2007 Harvard Film Studies Center fellowship support for ÒForeign DistrictÓ 16mm film

2005 MIT Council for the Arts fellowship support for ÒBalkan RhapsodyÓ documentary

2004 Boston Phoenix ÒBest of 2004Ó 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 ÒBest film series of the yearÓ 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 ÒBest film series of the yearÓ 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

 

Adjunct Professor, Emerson College, History of Documentary (2006 - Current)

 

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, VES and Anthropology Dept. (2006 - Current)

 

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

 

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

 

Adjunct Professor, Tufts University, Ex College (2003)

 

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

 

Graduate Student Advisor, Lesley University (2003-present)

 

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)

 

Concept, Director, Cinematographer & Editor

Balkan Rhapsodies #1-78: Observations, Encounters & Afterthoughts - Serbia & Kosovo 60min (2007)

 

Concept, Director, Cinematographer & Editor

Footnotes 1min (2007)

 

Concept, Director, Cinematographer & Editor

Ashes, AshesÉ 4min (2005)

 

Director, Cinematographer & Editor

Dressed to Kill 5min (2003/4)

 

Director, Cinematographer & Editor (Installation) – Collaboration with Wendy Jacob

Line 5min loop (2006)

 

Concept, Director, Cinematographer & Editor (Installation)

Second Ending 5min loop (2006)

 

Director of Photography – Collaboration with Alla Kovgan

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

 

Concept, Co-Producer, Cinematographer & Co-editor

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

 

Concept, Director, Cinematographer & Editor

Ebbing 7min (2000) Collaboration with Nicola Hawkins

 

Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Ojos Viajeros (Wandering Eyes) 30min (1998)

 

 

 

Selected Screenings & Performances

 

á       Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands -July 2007

á       Anthology Film Archive May 2007

á       Harvard Film Archive ÒFor Life Against the WarÓ program March 2007

á       Mexico City, Festival Internacional
de Cine Contempor‡neo, February 2007

á       Lincoln Center- Walter Reade Theatre , January 2007

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

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

á       Independent Film Festival of Boston, April 2005

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

á       Indonesia Dance on Camera Festival, December 2004

á       Betty Rymer Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago 2004

á       Dance Camera West, Cal Arts June 2004

á       Liquid Bodies Moving Image Festival, Toronto, CA 2004

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

á       Greek International Film Festival 2003

á       BAC! 03 Barcelona Contemporary Art Festival, Spain 2003

á       Napolidanza Festival April 2003

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

á       St. Petersburg, Russia December 2001

á       New England Film & Video Festival 2001

á       Low-Fi Video Festival, Belgrade, Yugoslavia  2000

á       Guadalajara, Mexico Chroma Festival 2000

á       Bar Harbor Film Festival, Maine 1999

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

á       Mobius Gallery, Boston, September 1999)

 

Professional Associations & Memberships

 

á       Filmmakers Collaborative, Waltham, MA (2001-present)

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

á       Pixonik Labs- Founding Member (1999-2001)

á       Collateral Damage Collaborative – Founding Member (1999-present)

 

 

Conferences, Lectures, Papers and Panels

 

á       Artist talk: ÒThe Aesthetics of Ambiguity and the Empowered EyeÓ - Beyond Text Conference at the Royal Anthropological Institute- Manchester, UK – June 2007

á       Visiting Artist Film III class SMFA, January 2007

á       Visiting Artist SMFA, October 2006

á       Participant ÒRobert Flaherty film SeminarÓ, June 2006

á       Lecturer ÒVideo PodcastingÓ MIT Tech Partners Conference June 1, 2006

á       Lecturer ÒContemporary Alternative CinemaÓ, MIT, January 2005

á       Guest Presenter & Panelist ÒMashup ForumÓ July14, 2005 Somerville, MA

á       Participant ÒRobert Flaherty film SeminarÓ, June 2005

á       Panelist ÒFilm Distribution and the Microcinema MovementÓ SMFA March 2004

á       Presenter & Programmer ÒSpecial program for the Boston Jewish Film FestivalÓ Coolidge Corner Theatre, November 2004

á       Participant ÒRobert Flaherty film SeminarÓ, June 2003

á       Presenter & Programmer, ÒDigital ShortsÓ Association of Moving Image Archivist AMIA, November 2003

á       Presenter & Programmer, ÒSpaces & PlacesÓ Somerville Theatre, July 2003

á       Presenter & Programmer, ÒFilmmaker Open StudiosÓ Coolidge Corner Theatre, April 2003

á       Presenter & Programmer, ÒFood For Thought: Cinematic obsession with FoodÓ Somerville Theatre, July 2002

á       Participant ÒRobert Flaherty film SeminarÓ, June 2002

á       Presenter & Programmer, ÒFilmmaker Open StudiosÓ Coolidge Corner Theatre, April 2002

á       Panelist ÒFilm ProgrammingÓ Oni Gallery February 20002

á       Presenter & Programmer, ÒExperiments in FormÓ Boston Underground Film Festival, Feb. 2001

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

á       Panelist, ÒGoing DigitalÓ Alliance for Community Media Conference (ACMC), UMASS Boston, March 2000

 

Juror

 

á       SMFA Film Festival, 2006

á       Somerville Arts Council LCC Grant awards, 2005

á       Black Maria Film Festival pre-screen judge

á       Somerville Arts Council LCC Grant awards, 2003

á       MIT Film Festival, 2003

 

 

Education

 

MFA                Vermont College (Montpelier, VT)

B. S.                Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
Park School of Communications, Cinema & Photography

Minor in Anthropology

 

 

Other Information

 

Countries Traveled:

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

 

Languages:               English and Spanish

 

Web Links:                http://www.coolidge.org/balagan/

http://www.filmmakerscollab.org/filmmakers.htm

http://web.mac.com/silvajeff