Shelly Silver Trailers
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Most Popular Shelly Silver Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
Touch Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
A man returns, after fifty years, to Chinatown to care for his dying mother. He is a librarian, a cataloguer and recorder, a gay man, a watcher, an impersonator.
We Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
A short, graphically dynamic work contrasting contradictory views of perception and interpretation, by way of society's assumptions vis-a-vis phallocentrism and fetishism.
37 Stories About Leaving Home Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Explores the relationships among grandmothers, mothers and daughters in a changing Japanese society.
Chinatown Film Project Trailer (2009)
01 July 2009
Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories.
A Tiny Place That Is Hard to Touch Trailer (2019)
01 February 2019
Science fiction and desire collide when an American researcher meets a Japanese translator. Clouds drift beyond the towering high rise blocks; down below, nature suffocates in a Tokyo river.
Turn Trailer (2018)
04 July 2018
In 1959, Jean Seberg stares into Raoul Coutard’s 35mm camera lens and then turns – the closing frame of Godard’s Breathless is the back of her head.
In Complete World Trailer (2008)
24 September 2008
in complete world is a feature-length documentary made up of street interviews done throughout NYC. Mixing political questions (Are we responsible for the government we get?) with more broadly existential ones (Do you feel you have control over your life?), the film centers on the tension between individual and collective responsibility.
5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown Trailer (2009)
01 October 2009
You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering The Place.
This Film Trailer (2018)
01 February 2018
Filming is alchemy; preserving, seeing, devouring, cutting. Chopping the flow of images with a push of a button.
Suicide Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
A woman's voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living.
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy Trailer (1993)
20 January 1993
This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a "second conspiracy" to cover up the truth, including attempts to ruin his own reputation.
Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
OUT OF DARKNESS: THE MINE WORKERS' STORY is a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, USA).
A Strange New Beauty Trailer (2017)
29 March 2017
A disturbing intrusion into the luxurious homes of Silicon Valley. Using an aggressive soundtrack and a full frame often fractured into small rectangles covered by text, Silver reveals a deafening violence behind the glittering beauty and deceptively calm of this suburban landscape.
Flesh Histories Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
A diverse program of films and videos by various artists who challenge conventional representations of gender, family and sexuality, curated by Tom Kalin for Drift Distribution.
1 Trailer (2001)
14 July 2001
A group of cops laugh and talk, while scanning the street for suspicious activity. An extreme close-up of a sensuously exposed neck; a soft pink fleshy ear turns to reveal an inquisitive hostile eye.
Girls / Museum Trailer (2020)
26 October 2020
Art is in the eye of the beholder, they say. Shelly Silver’s beholders range in age from seven to nineteen years.
Getting In Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Starting with the deceptively soothing pastel hues of a sunny afternoon in San Francisco, getting in stages a collision between two rarely questioned phenomenon, heterosexual sex and real estate.
The Lamps Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was an unsung member of the Dada Movement. The Baroness was a poet, artist, vaudeville performer, runaway, rabble rouser, crossdresser, and all around public provocateur.
Former East/Former West Trailer (1994)
26 July 1994
Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it means to be German at this particular moment in history.
