Silent Works is a series of artist’s films developed since 2016 and shown in different contexts and countries since. These works are composed with fragments of footage taken from Francisco Tomsich’s own video diaries in dialogue with specific traditions of experimental documentary film, video art and early cinema. They are primarily aimed to be projected on a large scale, often in groups, glitched, remixed and in conversation with objects, installations and the space where they are shown. Their silent character has been the point of departure of complex operations involving the creation of sound ecosystems, as in the work of The Silent Movies duo, integrated by Borut Savski and Francisco Tomsich. Five pieces from the Silent Works series are available for online screening at the most comprehensive archive of video art from Slovenia, DIVA: Lepa Scena, The Futures, A Winter’s Tale And A Summer’s Tale (2020), A Day In Murska Sobota (2019) and Trembling Studies (2018).

The Silent Works series of video essays, meditations, poems and installations deal with the public: public space, the limits of what is public, public behavior, unintended performative acts, marginal conducts, symptomatic gaps and black holes of urban planning, intervention on the public sphere, anti-, non-, post-, un-, monuments, anarchitecture, the exposure of structural totalitarianism inscribed in contemporary control of the public sphere, the pervasive eye of consumerism.