{"id":2569,"date":"2015-04-12T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/der.org\/community\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2018-04-20T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T16:07:27","slug":"der-podcast-jeff-silva-on-balkan-rhapsodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/der-podcast-jeff-silva-on-balkan-rhapsodies\/","title":{"rendered":"DER Podcast: Jeff Silva on BALKAN RHAPSODIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"padding-top: 50px; margin-top: -50px;\" name=\"silva\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 15px 0 0; display: inline;\" title=\"filmmaker Jeff Silva\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/der.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jeff-silva-podcast.jpg\" alt=\"filmmaker Jeff Silva\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 15px 0 0; display: inline;\" title=\"filmmaker Jeff Silva\" src=\"http:\/\/der.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jeff-silva-podcast.jpg\" alt=\"filmmaker Jeff Silva\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 9px; padding-bottom: 0px; color: #ccc;\">photo by Miguel Bueno<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><em>\u201cThat first time I went there was really heavy. It was emotionally heavy and I felt so confused, and I did feel like I had to do something, but I wasn\u2019t able to process it all very quickly. I wasn\u2019t mature enough as a filmmaker to deal with it, and I wasn\u2019t mature enough as a person I don\u2019t think&#8230; so I kept going back.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Silva<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 25px; clear: both; margin-bottom: -20px;\"><\/div>\n<p>On one of Boston\u2019s first beautiful spring days of 2015, I had the opportunity to meet with artist, filmmaker, and my former professor, Jeff Silva, to discuss his film, <cite><a title=\"Turning Tide Collection page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.der.org\/films\/balkan-rhapsodies.html\">Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War<\/a><\/cite>. Jeff had been working on his latest project in a dark edit room all day, and my visit was a good excuse for a breath of fresh air. We ventured to a park near his house to talk, so please forgive noises from the outside world!<\/p>\n<p>Having studied under Jeff, I know his style of critique and have heard his thoughts about others\u2019 films. We\u2019ve had terrific and thoughtful discussions in class, but this was my chance to pick his brain about one of his own films, and one that had a strong impact on me. Jeff began filming <cite>Balkan Rhapsodies<\/cite> in 1999 and finished in 2008, and after nearly a decade of filming in the Balkans during a time of conflict and uncertainty, I was eager to hear about his experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harris Khan, DER intern<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/206083470&amp;color=8dcef4&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo by Miguel Bueno \u201cThat first time I went there was really heavy. It was emotionally heavy and I felt so confused, and I did feel like I had to do something, but I wasn\u2019t able to process it all very quickly. I wasn\u2019t mature enough as a filmmaker to deal with it, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[146,145,118],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-filmmaker-interviews","tag-jeff-silva","tag-balkan-rhapsodies","tag-der-podcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}