BIOGRAPHY:



Fern Silva is a Portuguese-American filmmaker, working across documentary, essay, and experimental cinema. Since 2007, his films have explored the relationship between industry, culture, ecology, and historical memory, often drawing from science fiction, folklore, and speculative approaches to place. His work has screened at festivals and institutions including Media City, New York, Rotterdam, Locarno, Berlin, and Toronto International Film Festivals; New Directors/New Films; MoMA PS1; the National Gallery of Art; the New Museum; Harvard Film Archive; and the 14th Shanghai Biennale. His films are held in the collections of Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou. Silva’s films have received awards from Ann Arbor Film Festival, ZINEBI, 25FPS, Cinéma du Réel, Thessaloniki International Film Festival Agora, and a Special Mention at the Berlinale Encounters section. His work has been featured in Cinema Scope, Film Comment, and The New York Times. He has taught at the University of Illinois Chicago, Bennington College, Bard College, and EICTV in Cuba, and has received support from the Jerome Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA, LEF Foundation, MacDowell, the Radcliffe Institute, and the Film Study Center at Harvard University. He studied art and cinema at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College.