Shelly Silver, USA Suicide 2003, USA 70’00’’

A fictional American filmmaker ›Amanda‹ is going to Japan to shoot a suicide note on film. Organized around hidden camera footage complimented by the filmmaker's running voiceover commentary on who she would like to have tie her up--and all this buttressed by bursts of Japanese teenipop--the film resembles a Lost In Translation in serious need of Prozac.» (BBC Review, 21 Feb. 04)

born in New York City in 1957. She received a BA and BFA from Cornell University and subsequently attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches at The Cooper Union and in the MFA Program of Photography & Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been shown extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. She has received numerous grants and fellowships for her work.