“In a faceless apartment in Tatekawa, Tokyo, an American woman hires a Japanese woman to translate interviews about Japan’s declining birthrate.”, that is the beginning of Shelly Silver’s movie and the beginning of a story about love and lust, about the aim to understand outherness and about an unacceptability of some relations and a majority disapproval of different stories.

Shelly Silver is a New York based artist working with the still and moving image. She has exhibited worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou and many others. She is Associate Professor and Director of Moving Image, Visual Arts Program, School of the Arts, Columbia University.

Following the screening of her latest movie – “a tiny place that is hard to touch”, Silver will hold a short talk and you are invited to ask and discuss with her.