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A Strange New Beauty, une intrusion perturbante dans les maisons luxueuses de la Silicon Valley. À l’aide d’une bande son agressive et d’un cadre éclaté par des vignettes et des inscriptions sur un écran noir, Silver révèle une violence sourde derrière la beauté clinquante et le calme trompeur des lieux. Aucune présence humaine dans le film, mais les riches demeures semblent renfermer une mémoire d’évènements inquiétants, porter les traces d’une sauvagerie en hors champ. Dans un même mouvement contradictoire, A Strange New Beauty joue des clichés invitant à la poursuite du bonheur, et déboulonne brutalement le mensonge du rêve américain. Charlotte Selb, Revue 24 Images

Shelly Silver is a New York based artist working with the still and moving image. Her work explores contested territories between public and private, narrative and documentary, and increasingly in recent years the watcher and the watched. She has exhibited worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Yokohama Museum, the London ICA, and the London, the Singapore, New York, Moscow, and Berlin Film Festivals. Silver has received fellowships and grants from organizations such as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. Her films have been broadcast by BBC/England, PBS/USA, Arte/Germany, France, Planete/Europe, RTE/Ireland, SWR/Germany, and Atenor/Spain, among others. She has been a fellow at the DAAD Artists Program in Berlin, the Japan/US Artist Program In Tokyo, Cité des Arts in Paris, and at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Silver is Associate Professor and Director of the Moving Image, Visual Arts Program, Columbia University.