Directing
Community Rating
7.9
TMDB estimate
Born
October 1, 1982 (age 43)
Born in
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Fern Silva (1982, USA/Portugal) is an artist who began working as an editor and cameraperson in NYC. His early films centered on his relationship to Portugal and have since expanded, underlining the influence of industry on culture and the environment. For over a decade, his 16mm films have been screened widely in festivals, museums, and cinematheques including the Media City, Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, London, Melbourne, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals, MOMA PS1, New Museum, Anthology Film Archive, and the Harvard Film Archive. They've been awarded prizes from the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Gus Van Sant Award), 25FPS Festival (Grand Prix), and the Agora Post-Production Award from the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. His work has been featured in publications including Cinema Scope, Filmmaker Magazine, and Film Comment. He's taught filmmaking at various institutions including the University of Illinois at Chicago, Bard College, and Bennington College and has received support from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He studied film at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College and is a fellow at the Film Study Center at Harvard University.
Rebounds
as Director
TBA
—Just a Soul Responding
as Cinematography
TBA
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Rock Bottom Riser
as Camera Operator, Screenplay, Producer, Director, Editor
2021
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Lore
as Thanks
2020
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The Grand Bizarre
as Sound Supervisor
2018
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Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
as Director
2017
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The Watchmen
as Director
2017
—Pants on Fire
as Producer
2015
—Scales in the Spectrum of Space
as Director
2015
—Tender Feet
as Director
2014
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Wayward Fronds
as Director
2014
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Liahona
as Director of Photography
2013
—Concrete Parlay
as Editor, Director
2012
—In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails
as Director
2011
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Forged Ways
as Camera Operator
2011
—Peril of the Antilles
as Producer, Sound Editor, Editor, Director
2011
—Passage Upon the Plume
as Editor, Sound Editor, Producer, Director
2011
—Imposing Disbelief
as Tom the Anchorman
2010
—Servants of Mercy
as Director
2010
—Sahara Mosaic
as Director
2009
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