See Memory: On enriching self-narrative
VIVIANE SILVERA, MFA
A film and discussion held in person at the Institute and live, online, presented by The Artist Study Group.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 2023
from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern
Join us in person at the Institute Library at 20 West 74th Street
The Artist Study Group presents a screening and discussion of See Memory, a 15-minute animated film made from 30,000 hand-painted images about the mind.
Through the film’s visual and narrative journey, artist, director and narrator Viviane Silvera explores the dynamics and subtleties of the imagination, remembering, trauma, emotional experience and therapeutic presence. The film gives voice to the experience of story-telling; understanding disrupted, fragmented, repetitive, or retrieved memories through a unifying lens of art and science.
Having rigorously trained in the visual and plastic arts, Silvera has exhibited her work internationally and nationally. Her documentary, See Memory premiered at the Imagine Science Film Festival and since its release has screened at the Helix Center, The Friedman Brain Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She graduated with a BS in Political Science and Psychology from Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Arts, Silvera is the founder of On Art, which makes New York’s intimate art world accessible through public and private tours. She is currently at work on a film series, Feel Memory, which combines hand painted animation with live action, archival and first-person narrationto tell the stories of people who are trapped by traumatic memory and freed by imagination.
We look forward to a lively discussion of the film’s evocative multi-sensory portrait of the conscious and unconscious mind in a language that is saturated with visual and auditory images, metaphor and poetry.
Note that if you plan to attend either in person or via Zoom, you should RSVP to: fvdillon@gmail.com
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, The Artist Study Group
