[Frameworks] Next week in Providence: FERN SILVA at Magic Lantern (Thursday, April 16)

[Watter, Seth]

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Magic Lantern Presents



WAYWARD FRONDS

The Films of Fern Silva, 2010-2014



Artist in person!



Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 8:00pm

Cable Car Cinema & Café

204 S. Main St., Providence, RI

Admission $5



Fern Silva (b. 1982, USA/Portugal) makes what are ostensibly travelogues,
but these travelogues ain’t your grandparents’ travelogues. Often filming
throughout the Americas, Europe, North Africa and Western Asia, Silva
strings his footage together into poetic amalgams that are marked by a
formalist approach to landscape, a coloristic brilliance, a profound sense
of editing—rhythmic but never rigid—and, most importantly, a puckish wit
all too often lacking in this genre. A moment from *Concrete Parlay* (2012)
sums up Silva’s own practice, albeit negatively: in a darkened theater,
somewhere in the world, the opening montage of Woody Allen’s *Midnight in
Paris* (2011) flickers by, with its cliché, postcard images of tree-lined
avenues and cafes practically nailed together by the lilt of Sidney
Bechet’s saxophone. Silva’s films are entirely about place, but they never
stoop to such naked sightseeing. Rather, he gives us dead horseshoe crabs
on a dusky, garbage-strewn beach; an automated lawnmower outside a pyramid;
a monstrous, silo-like complex bearing the words WELCOME TO CONCRETE; or
the gestural dip of a whale’s tale merging seamlessly into that of a
woman’s arm, as she draws soap-sudded figure eights on the glass expanse of
an urban storefront. The “wayward fronds” with which Silva is obsessed are
not the product of some ahistorical, timeless time; they coexist uneasily
alongside the televisual landscape, the technology of modern travel, the
ecological and political struggles of our age.



Program: approx. 70 mins, followed by Q&A.



*In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails*, 2010, 13 mins, color/sound,
16mm to ProRes



*Peril of the Antilles*, 2011, 6 mins, color/sound, 16mm to ProRes



*Passage Upon the Plume*, 2011, 7 mins, b&w/silent, 16mm



*Concrete Parlay*, 2012, 18 mins, color/sound, 16mm



*Tender Feet*, 2013, 10 mins, color/sound, 16mm



*Wayward Fronds*, 2014, 13 mins, color/sound, 16mm to ProRes



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Magic Lantern is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the
Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies at Brown University.
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