WED MAY 25 • 9:30 PM • INTL PROGRAM 1
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In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails Fern Silva
USA, video, 13.5 min, 2010
“Creation and destruction, as seen in the tiny turtles crawling their way to the sea, or heard in the crackling of a Geiger counter as a masked man sprays plants with pesticides. Revelers in Bahia parade through the streets, a gnatsized Mercury passes across the surface of the sun, and men slowly make their way up the giant steps of an ancient temple. The film resides in a well of deep time, history swallowed by the life of the planet.” — Genevieve Yue, Reverse Shot Fern Silva studied at the Massachussets College of Art and Bard College. He has made more than a dozen films since 2005 which have screened at venues including the IFF Rotterdam, the “Views from the Avant-Garde” program at the New York Film Festival, the Images Festival (Toronto), the World Film Festival of Bangkok and at MoMA PS1. This is his first appearance at Media City. He lives in Brooklyn.