SUICIDE - excerpt

SUICIDE - Excerpt

70:00/2003

suicide is a feature-length fiction of a woman's voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living.

Shot to resemble a personal diary film, and starring Silver herself as the fictional filmmaker heroine, suicide is edgy, dark and funny; an audacious act of flirting with the revelatory autobiographical. It is a wild ride, as the heroine, slipping ever further into the shadow areas between the real and the imagined....

Special Jury Prize

Moscow International Film Festival, Media Forum

shot, written, directed, edited by

Shelly Silver

produced by

House Productions

Oshikuma Films

amanda

Shelly Silver

editing advisors

Mary Patierno

Kathy High

Yvonne Volkart

Ed Bowes

sound mix

Bill Seery, Mercer Street Sound

funded by

The New York State Council on the Arts

The Jerome Foundation

The New York Foundation for the Arts

Anonymous was a Woman Foundation

Selected Screenings & Exhibitions

The Berlin International Film Festival, International Forum for New Cinema

The Moscow International Film Festival

Cine-Essay/Cine Esayo, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

Electromediascope: Allegories of the Real, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO

New York Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, NY

Singapore International Film Festival

The World Is A Safer Place, Globe Gallery, Newcastle, England

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Black Milk, Marvelli Gallery, NYC

Osnabruck Media Arts Festival, Germany

Ecran d'art, Argos, Brussels, Belgium