Malena Szlam
Directing
Malena Szlam is an artist-filmmaker working at the intersection of cinema, installation, and performance. Her practice explores the relationship between the natural world, perception, and intuitive process. Her work has been exhibited in numerous festivals and museums, including the Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale, Hong Kong Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, the Bienal de la imagen en movimiento.
Szlam is the recipient of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s (LIFT) Roberto Ariganello Artist Residency Award (2018). Past collaborations include Jerusalem In My Heart (2011-2013), a live audio-visual performance project with Montreal-based musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh that toured Europe, Canada, and Lebanon; and Breaking the Frame (2012), Marielle Nitoslawska’s feature-length profile of Carolee Schneemann, pioneer of feminist performance art and avant-garde cinema.
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She is a member of Double Negative, an artist collective dedicated to the production and exhibition of experimental cinema.
Known for
Altiplano
April 27, 2018
Lunar Almanac
October 4, 2013
Merapi
July 14, 2021
Anagrams of Light
January 1, 2011
Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
September 7, 2024
MAIPO
February 16, 2022
Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow
January 1, 2010
Rhythm Trail
January 1, 2011
Chronogram of Inexistent Time
January 1, 2008
Morphology of a Dream
July 2, 2014
Behind the camera10
- 2024Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya Director, Cinematography, Editor
- 2022MAIPO Director
- 2021Merapi Director
- 2018Altiplano Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer, Sound
- 2014Morphology of a Dream Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
- 2013Lunar Almanac Director
- 2011Anagrams of Light Director
- 2011Rhythm Trail Director
- 2010Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow Director
- 2008