Film director Silvianna Goldsmith: biography, career, and

Hearts, Chains and Flowers

Silvianna Goldsmith

Filmed from a choreographed eternal B and D triangle, old found erotic footage, optically printed and rear screen rephotograhped with a Matte Box, and hand painted. According to Stekel, in all of us is the will to power and the will to power and the will to submission; every pleasure is close to pain, and in all love there is some hate. To be able to stretch our boundaries and explore our shadow side, here with a bit of black humor, this is part of our new freedoms.–S. G.

Hearts, Chains and Flowers

1995

Lil' Picard: Art is a Party, The New Party is Art

Silvianna Goldsmith

Delightfully funny picture of Lil's 75th birthday party. All the "art world" is there. As the evening (and the film) go on, it gets faster and drunker.

Lil' Picard: Art is a Party, The New Party is Art

1975

Orpheus Underground

Silvianna Goldsmith

Orpheus (the artist) searches for Eurydice (immortality) in New York (his own underworld). Densely textured, pervaded by feeling of baroque imagery.

Orpheus Underground

1975

Nightclub, Memories of Havana in Queens

Silvianna Goldsmith

Three Latin dancers in a nightclub in Queens make up, and do a samba, a merengue and an afro-cuban dance. Filmed both tongue-in-cheek with humor and satire at the kitsch aspects, and also seriously as a tribute to the culture's ancient sensuality.

Nightclub, Memories of Havana in Queens

1975