<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Please join us for an evening with Shelly Silver at </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The Thing @ White Slab Palace</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">77 Delancey Street at Allen St</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Tuesday April 26th, 8-10 pm</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">program:</font></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">37 Stories About Leaving Home</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (52 min, 1996)<br></font><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">5 lessons & 9 questions about Chinatown</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (10 min, 2009)<br></font></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">What I'm Looking For</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (15 min, 2004)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">(and maybe a surprise!)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Under Silver's direction, video becomes a tool to ponder life's meaning, to create parables about the conundrums of existence. Her videotapes prod, query and confront the way we construct our world and ourselves. (Sally Berger) </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Don't miss this program!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Best,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Heidrun </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><p style="display: inline !important; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=5lessonsv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; ">37 Stories About Leaving Home</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">(</span></font></font></b></p></span></b><b><p style="display: inline !important; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=5lessonsv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">1996, 52 min, color, sound</font></a>)</span></font></p></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><i><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=5lessonsv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">37 Stories About Leaving Home</font></font></a></i><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=5lessonsv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> provides a rare and personal view into the lives of Japanese women. This beautifully constructed and complex video weaves stories told by a group of Japanese grandmothers, mothers and daughters, ranging in age from 15 to 83. The stories recount each woman's personal journey from child to adulthood—their experiences of leaving home. It points to the enormous societal changes that have occurred in Japan over the last few generations, showing how these women are both influencing and coping with these changes in their own different, individual and creative ways.<br><br></font></font></a><i><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=5lessonsv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">"Subtle and insightful... highlighting the competing demands of tradition and personal freedom. Silver presents a remarkable portrait of a culture about to experience seismic social change." (</font></font></a></i><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=5lessonsv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Steven Bode, Film and Video Umbrella, London)<br><br></font></font></a><i><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=5lessonsv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">"A beautiful film." (</font></font></a></i><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=5lessonsv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Margarethe von Trotta)</font></font></a></span></b></span></b><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><img id="968da19b-b749-478c-b521-7d4637854fbe" height="123" width="180" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:475E99AB-650B-44FD-9201-7EC7E4C33FC6@myhome.westell.com"><img id="3f673919-d376-4a74-b0ec-b75131a776a1" height="123" width="180" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:4D973654-FC01-496E-805E-0D15F6A73074@myhome.westell.com"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">In </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">37 Stories about Leaving Home</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (1996), Silver's view becomes intimate and lyrical, as she creates a portrait of a group of mothers, daughters and grandmothers living in the Tokyo area. These women encompassing three generations, recount childhood memories, dreams and the small daily moments that make up their lives, to build a picture of the strong and complex relations existing between mothers and daughters. Silver, in typical fashion, layers the narrative by weaving in fiction with the documentary material in the form of a traditional, but shocking Japanese folktale of a mother and daughter caught in the grasp of an awful Oni, an ogre who is half-human, half-monster. (Sally Berger)<br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><div><p><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=lookingv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; ">What I'm Looking For</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">(</span></font></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">15 minutes, 2004)</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">A woman sets out to photograph moments of intimacy. On an Internet dating site she writes: 'I'm looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves...' </font></p><p><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">What I'm Looking For</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, a 15-minute high definition video, documents this adventure; the connections formed at this intersection between virtual and actual public space. The video is a rumination on the nature of photography and the persistence of vision. It is a short tale of desire and control.</font></p></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font><img id="2fa8ee02-0fd7-43a4-80ce-5fcbb40e340c" height="101" width="180" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:EFC0F6E3-EF59-4B1E-BB36-30513FD24D8B@myhome.westell.com"><img id="82789b8f-0ca9-448c-9368-ffdb577d26d5" height="101" width="180" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7A84A86B-83B6-47D8-ACCB-875D0F04300F@myhome.westell.com"><img id="5c3b381d-d4f2-4f49-ba7d-461e8c53e779" height="101" width="180" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:A0A39560-A807-4F97-96CA-762B02ACDEEE@myhome.westell.com"></div></div><div><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/view.php?id=video&id2=5lessonsv" class="titlelink" style="text-decoration: none; ">5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown</a> </font></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">(10 minutes, 2009)</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration, exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 13 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons, Chinatown.... </font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering THE PLACE. Years, decades go by and you continue, unseeing, possibly unseen.<br><br>A building comes down, and before the next one is up you ask yourself 'what used to be there?' You are only vaguely aware of the district's shifting patterns and the sense that, since the 19th century, wave after wave of inhabitants have moved through and transformed these alleyways, tenements, stoops and shops.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><img id="16ad03b2-d176-4286-88c6-df49707cca94" height="135" width="240" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:ED9D1D0F-86BF-40EC-9F1B-AD12EC667186@myhome.westell.com"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">more info: </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.shellysilver.com/">www.shellysilver.com</a></font></font></div></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div></body></html>