SHANNON SILVA: SELECTED FILMS

Click on images below for film stills and screening/award history

MKA: Buy Buy Love, Buy Buy Happiness (WIP)

Using expert interviews, historical research, animated reenactments and found footage, this feature length documentary will look closely, and critically, at the tween markets evolution and the role of Dualstar (Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's company) in the markets explosion.

29 Places I Once Called Home (2006)

A 20-minute, experimental, documentary, which explores the multi-layered connections between poverty, frequent relocation, substance abuse, family violence and memory instability.

And Happiness Everywhere (2004), 7 min.

Shot on Super 8 and 16mm film, this four-month, intimate journal considers my conflicting emotions about being a newly married, thirty-something woman trying to negotiate between being an artist, being a wife, and, potentially, becoming a mother

To the Dead Girl, Thank You (2004), 3 min.

A direct address video letter to the filmmaker's deceased great aunt.  The video questions the importance of family resemblance, individual identity and having a sense of belonging.

The Unbelievable Act of Totally Disappearing (2003), 5 min.

Using animation, hand-manipulated film techniques and original home movie footage from the day I was first brought home from the hospital, this 16mm film explores physical, temporal and emotional family distance in the age of technology.