Malena Szlam

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Place of Birth Chile

Malena Szlam

Biography

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

Director

2022
MAIPO

as Director

2021
Merapi

as Director

2018
2018
Altiplano

as Director

2013
Lunar Almanac

as Director

2011
Rhythm Trail

as Director

2011
Anagrams of Light

as Director

Editor

2018
Altiplano

as Editor

2018

Camera

2018
Altiplano

as Director of Photography

2018
Morphology of a Dream

as Director of Photography

Producer

2018
2018
Altiplano

as Producer

Sound

2018
Altiplano

as Sound