[4] Consisting of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, this documentary is a portrait of citizen attitudes about what it means to be German at that particular moment in history.
[6] In this work Silver pairs audio of narrators (four couples) reading the testimonials of Monica Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton as published in the Starr Report with found footage of zoo animals.
[7] This feature-length fictional film follows a filmmaker through malls, airports, and train stations in Central America, Asia, and Europe as she searches for a reason to live.
[11] The Lamps (2015) by Shelly Silver explores the rebellious spirit of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a provocative artist linked to the Dada movement and potentially the true creator of Fountain.
The film recounts her audacious visit to Naples’ Archaeological Museum, where she breaks into a secret room of erotic Pompeian artifacts, highlighting her subversive engagement with art and history.
Like her ambivalent plans, as beautiful as they are sharp, the visual poem composed by Shelly Silver shows the fragility of beings in the very expression of their vitality, the pulse and the possibility of its cessation.
(Charlotte Garson)[14] “At once a social inquiry, a critical essay in art history and a poised, even sculptural study of people, paintings and space, Girls/Museum is thought-provoking, engaging and visually striking” -Jonathan Romney[15] “As a watcher, you are involved and encouraged to think or think along without the documentation having an instructive effect.