Howard Silver
Arts Into Production
New York, NY, USA
917-885-8729
www.artsintoproduction.net
My approach to each project is exciting, enlightening story-telling; using the creative energy inherent in video at its best –with style, intelligence and sometimes humor.
Work Experience
Bloomberg MUSE
Producer / Writer
Producer, Writer, Shooter, Bloomberg Television weekly series on the arts and food, Produced over 120 segments. I was responsible for evolving MUSE’s style and look, creating efficiencies and enhanced production and post-production values across Bloomberg’s roster of field productions.
May 2006
- February 2009
New York, New York, United States
Arts Into Production
Producer, Director, Shooter, Editor
Producing short documentaries for Creative Time and Fly 16x9 on the arts and new ideas.
To date have produced 11 documentaries, including:
THE X-SPECIES ADVENTURES Producer, Writer, Shooter, Editor, half-hour pilot for food and the environment series with environmental scientist and artist, Natalie Jeremijenko.
UNDERSTANDING PINA: THE LEGACY OF PINA BAUSCH Director, Shooter, Editor, 38 minute documentary co-directed with Kathryn Sullivan on the life and work of choreographer Pina Bausch through interviews with her dancers from the Seventies through the Nineties.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT Director, Shooter, Editor, short video for FLY 16X9 profiling the artist preparing for her MOMA retrospective and her Institute For Long-Duration Performance Art in Hudson, NY.
To date have produced 11 documentaries, including:
THE X-SPECIES ADVENTURES Producer, Writer, Shooter, Editor, half-hour pilot for food and the environment series with environmental scientist and artist, Natalie Jeremijenko.
UNDERSTANDING PINA: THE LEGACY OF PINA BAUSCH Director, Shooter, Editor, 38 minute documentary co-directed with Kathryn Sullivan on the life and work of choreographer Pina Bausch through interviews with her dancers from the Seventies through the Nineties.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT Director, Shooter, Editor, short video for FLY 16X9 profiling the artist preparing for her MOMA retrospective and her Institute For Long-Duration Performance Art in Hudson, NY.
March 2009
-
New York, New York, United States
Education
New York University
BFA Film & Television
New York, New York, United States
University Of Minnesota
Art History major
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Awards
NATAS
EMMY for Arts Programming for City Arts
2001
NATAS
EMMY - Outstanding Editing for Pee Wee's Playhouse
1987
NY Press Club
NY YORK PRESS CLUB Award for Cultural Programming for Bloomberg MUSE
2008
LA Press Club
LA PRESS CLUB Award for Cultural Programming for Bloomberg MUSE
2009
American Institute Of Architecture (AIA)
Citation for Excellence in Urban Design for Westside Waterfront Video
1990
Skills
Apple Final Cut Studio,
Audio Production,
Avid Media Composer,
Adobe Audition,
Avid Symphony,
FCPX,
Lighting,
Various Broadcast Video Cameras,