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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Susan Hiller: The Last Silent Movie\nEvent Url: htt
 p://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441343259/Susan_Hiller_The_Last_Silent
 _Movie\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-04-29\nEvent Date End: 2011-08-14\n\nSusan 
 Hiller\, class of 1961\, is one of Smith College's most distinguished arti
 st-alumnae. Since Hiller turned from her academic training as an anthropol
 ogist to become an artist in the 1970s\, she has been based in Europe wher
 e she has established an international career working across a wide variet
 y of media. Her work is currently the subject of a major retrospective at 
 Tate Britain. 'The Last Silent Movie' (2008)\, a film installation with a 
 suite of 24 etchings\, is based on recordings of native speakers of extinc
 t or dying languages discovered by the artist in archives around the world
 . It draws on Hiller's long concerns with absence and loss\, a theme movin
 gly addressed in this work and in her earlier 'J Street Project\,' a film/
 installation that commemorates German Jewish communities eradicated by the
  Nazis during the Second World War. The title of 'The Last Silent Movie' r
 eferences silent movies of the early twentieth century\, in which speakers
  are pictured but not heard\; their words are conveyed through subtitles. 
 In Hiller's film\, the speakers are invisible to us. We hear voices and la
 nguages that no longer exist but that are not silent because\, as the arti
 st has said\, 'Someone is listening.' 'The Last Silent Movie' was recently
  acquired by the Museum and is placed on view in honor of the artist's 50t
 h reunion.\n\nImage Credit: Susan Hiller. Born in the U.S.\, 1940. Lives a
 nd works in London. The Last Silent Movie\,  2007. Portfolio of 24 etching
 s on 270 gsm Moulin de Gu&eacute\; (Rives de Lin) paper with 1 Blu-Ray dis
 c. Edition 3 + 1 AP. Purchased with the Janet Wright Ketcham\, class of 19
 53\, Fund. Running time: 20 minutes\n\nStart time: Tuesday-Saturday 10 AM&
 ndash\;4 PM\nSundays 12&ndash\;4 PM\nSecond Fridays 10 AM&ndash\;8 PM\n\nC
 losed Mondays and major holidays
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SUMMARY:Susan Hiller: The Last Silent Movie
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