Films by Shelly Silver

2020, 71 min
by Shelly Silver

Art is in the eye of the beholder, they say. Shelly Silver’s beholders range in age from seven to nineteen years. They focus their attention on artworks in the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. Their spontaneous interpretations of the works allow for resonances: both, the paintings as well as their young reviewers, reveal different things about themselves, depending on the point of view.“Shit that I’m not a boy”, a teenager exclaims as she stands in front of the painting of a rich young man who lived