Malena Szlam | ReleaseNexus

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.

Producing credits

Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya poster — Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
Director
September 7 2024

MAIPO poster — MAIPO
Director
February 16 2022

Merapi poster — Merapi
Director
July 14 2021

Morphology of a Dream poster — Morphology of a Dream
Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
October 28 2018

Altiplano poster — Altiplano
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer, Sound
April 27 2018

Lunar Almanac poster — Lunar Almanac
Director
October 4 2013

Rhythm Trail poster — Rhythm Trail
Director
January 1 2011

Anagrams of Light poster — Anagrams of Light
Director
January 1 2011

Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow poster — Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow
Director
January 1 2010

Chronogram of Inexistent Time poster — Chronogram of Inexistent Time
Director
January 1 2008

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