Private Project

Transmission

Reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic in words, improvisation and collected audio compositions by pianist and composer Sila Shaman in collaboration with infectious disease epidemiologist Jeffrey Shaman.
Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/529142764/a2a122df37

  • Sila Shaman
    Director
  • Sila Shaman
    Producer
  • Jeffrey Shaman
    Producer
  • Sila Shaman
    Composer
  • Sila Shaman
    Editor
  • Sila Shaman
    Writer
  • Jeffrey Shaman
    Writer
  • Sila Shaman
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Jeffrey Shaman
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    38 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 10, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    DIgital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Sila Shaman

Sila Shaman is a composer and pianist whose work spans a variety of genres including music for film & TV, theater, dance, jazz, concert and experimental music. Her recent work has been described as “adroit tinkering and re-shaping of improvised source material into full fledged, highly polished works of art”. Her score for the documentary Sisters in Freedom received 2019 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards for both Musical Composition and Audio. As a jazz pianist and composer she has released multiple recordings on SteepleChase and Louie Records of which A New Abode was an album-of-the-week pick by NPR. Her latest duo album with multi-instrumentalist Dave Storrs, Brief West Coast Tour, was listed as one of the top releases of 2020 by All About Jazz. Originally from Turkey she currently lives and works in New York City.
www.silashaman.com

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Director Statement

Like many others, I spent 2020 mostly at home with my family, in our case our apartment in New York City, trying to make sense of all the sudden changes the pandemic brought our lives. As a composer and a performer it was only natural for me to explore things through sound and imagery. I started recording, filming, and asked friends around the globe to share audio and video recordings they made during the shut down. This collection is the basis of Transmission, a visual and aural examination of the pandemic through composition, improvisation and narration that delves into the science of COVID-19 in collaboration with my husband Jeffrey Shaman, a disease epidemiologist who models the spread of the virus.