Director
Malena Szlam
Chile · 10 films
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. She is a member of Double Negative, an artist collective dedicated to the production and exhibition of experimental cinema.
Best known for
Filmography 10
Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
2024 · Director, Editor
MAIPO
2022 · Director
Merapi
2021 · Director
Altiplano
2018 · Director, Cinematography
Morphology of a Dream
2014 · Director, Editor
Lunar Almanac
2013 · Director
Rhythm Trail
2011 · Director
Anagrams of Light
2011 · Director
Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow
2010 · Director
Chronogram of Inexistent Time
2008 · Director