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The Houses That Are Left

The Houses That Are Left

film/video
us
1990
60'

Shelly Silver’s most ambitious work to date. A story of mortality, adultery, friendship, revenge, murder, demographics, society and the supernatural, it is an approach to narrative in which the task of sorting out the truth from the fiction, and the organizing of traditionally discarded material, leads to an expanded form in which the dead can speak to the living and people on the street can talk to fictional characters. In Silver’s words “to tell a story, any story, one always bumps into other stories and information along the way, and how can one make a truthful document while thoroughly ignoring them?"

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