Films A to Z
THE LAMPS
- Runtime:
- 4 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2015
- Country:
- USA
- Director:
- Production Company:
- Silver, Shelly
- Berlinale Section:
- Forum
“All who want me would like to eat me up. But I am too expansive and am open to all sides, desire this here and that there.” The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven “The Baroness is not a futurist. She is the future.” Marcel Duchamp “The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, née Plötz, was an unsung member of the New York Dada Movement. She was a poet, artist, vaudeville performer, runaway, rabble-rouser, cross-dresser, and all around public provocateur. She actively did not fit into her historical moment, and like most misfits, suffered for it. As with many women artists throughout history, her cultural legacy has been obscured and in some instances appropriated into the oeuvres of better-known male peers. Some researchers believe that the Baroness was the artist behind “Fountain,” the ready-made urinal attributed to Duchamp. The Lamps details her trip to the Naples Archeological Museum in the early 1900s where she breaks into “Il Gabinetto Segretto,“ a secret room filled with erotic objects from Pompeii.” Shelly Silver
BIOGRAFIE Shelly Silver
Shelly Silver, born in 1957, 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 received a BA and BFA from Cornell University and subsequently attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Her work has been exhibited, screened, and broadcast worldwide. A retrospective of her work was presented at Cinéma du Réel, Pompidou Center (2015), as well as at DokLeipzig, Germany (2014). Silver is Associate Professor and Chair of the Visual Arts Program, Columbia University.
FILMOGRAFIE Shelly Silver (selection)
2015 THE LAMPS
2013 . ## TOUCH
2013 frog spider hand horse house
2009 5 lessons & 9 questions about Chinatown
2008 in complete world
2004 What I'm Looking For
2003 suicide
2001 I.
1999 small lies, Big Truth
1996 37 Stories About Leaving Home
1994 April 2nd
1994 Former East/Former West
1991 The Houses That Are Left
1990 We
1989 getting in
1989 Things I Forget to Tell Myself
1987 Meet the People
1984 Are We All Here?
@IMDb Shelly Silver
Interview with Shelly Silver