About

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Malena Szlam

Overview

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.

Known for

Directing
2024 Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya Directing Director N/A
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2022 MAIPO Directing Director N/A
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2021 Merapi Directing Director N/A
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2018 Morphology of a Dream Directing Director N/A
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2018 Altiplano Directing Director 58
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2013 Lunar Almanac Directing Director 59
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2011 Anagrams of Light Directing Director N/A
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2011 Rhythm Trail Directing Director N/A
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2010 Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow Directing Director N/A
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2008 Chronogram of Inexistent Time Directing Director N/A
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Production
2018 Morphology of a Dream Production Producer N/A
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2018 Altiplano Production Producer 58
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Sound
2018 Altiplano Sound Sound 58
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Camera
2018 Morphology of a Dream Camera Director of Photography N/A
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2018 Altiplano Camera Director of Photography 58
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Editing
2018 Morphology of a Dream Editing Editor N/A
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2018 Altiplano Editing Editor 58
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