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Ivan & Ivana (0+)

USA, 2011, colour, 80 min.
Director: Jeff Daniel Silva
After the Kosovo war devastates a young couple's homeland and their dreams for a normal life, they set out unexpectedly from the Balkans, along a wild journey to rebuild their lives anew in America. Arriving in California amidst the peak of a housing boom that would soon burst, the film reveals their trials and tribulations over five years of turbulent economic, political and personal tides to reveal an unorthodox depiction of the American immigrant experience.

Jeff Daniel Silva

Jeff Daniel Silva

is a filmmaker and artist based in Somerville, Massachusetts. His films and installations have been exhibited at festivals, galleries and in museums in the United States, South America, Canada, Europe and Australia; including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA - NY), the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), The Betty Rymer Gallery (Chicago, Il), The Valdivia International Film Festival (Chile), the DokumentArt Film Festival (Germany), and DocHouse Brussels (Belgium). Jeff was an instructor at Harvard University from 2006-2009, where he taught and helped develop the Gurricuium, along with Lucien Taylor, for The Sensory Ethnography Lab, a practice-based program of visual anthropology exploring the interstices of art, anthropology and documentary film. Currently, Jeff is a professor of film at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA).

FILMOGRAPHY

BALKAN RHAPSODIES: 78 MEASURES OF WAR, 2008.
USA, 2011, colour, 80 min.
Director: Jeff Daniel Silva
After the Kosovo war devastates a young couple's homeland and their dreams for a normal life, they set out unexpectedly from the Balkans, along a wild journey to rebuild their lives anew in America. Arriving in California amidst the peak of a housing boom that would soon burst, the film reveals their trials and tribulations over five years of turbulent economic, political and personal tides to reveal an unorthodox depiction of the American immigrant experience.