André Silva is a filmmaker, animator, and educator based in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. His work moves between environmental documentary, essay film, animation, and experimental media, exploring relationships between ecology, technology, consciousness, and the more-than-human world.
Working across both observational and highly constructed forms, Silva’s films range from immersive environmental encounters to speculative animated worlds shaped by mythological, technological, and cosmological ideas. Combining documentary observation, animation, hybrid narrative structures, generative imagery, fragmented text, and experimental image-making techniques, his projects often explore how environments, systems, and media technologies shape human perception and our understanding of reality.
In parallel with his filmmaking, Silva develops “Expanded Environmentalism,” an interdisciplinary framework connecting ecology, moving-image practice, speculative thinking, and pedagogy. Through teaching, public writing, and long-form creative research, he explores environmental encounter, emergent technologies, anomalous experience, and the evolving relationship between humans and larger ecological and technological systems.
His films have screened nationally and internationally at festivals including SXSW, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Atlanta Film Festival. He is a recipient of the North Carolina Artist Fellowship.
