Short Films

Five Lessons and Nine Questions about Chinatown
Shelly Silver
United States, 2009
HDV | 10min. | BW/Colour | VOSC | VOSI

Production:
Karin Chien ([email protected])

Screenplay:
Shelly Silver
Sound:
Ian Stynes, Great City Productions
 
Sinopsis

10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration, exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 30 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons, Chinatown.

 
Bio / Filmo

Shelly Silver (1957) is a New York-based artist working in film, video and photography. She has exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Asia works as Suicide (2003), What I'm Looking For (2004), screened at l'Alternativa 2004 and In Complete World (2008).

 
Festivals

Berlinale 2010
EMAF Osnabrück 2010
Chicago Underground Film Festival 2010
Norwegian Short Film Festival 2010