A programme of new cinema inspired by the hallucinogenic properties of flowers, archival dissonance, and tales of a grumpy entity who talked only because it could not growl.
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MALENA SZLAM is a Chilean filmmaker based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang. Through her practice, Szlam reimagines connections between human beings and the natural world. Attentive to how geopolitics are intertwined with natural phenomena—from moon’s orbital phases to the sweeping high-plateau of central Andes—her films, installations, and photographs explore embodied perception and the affective dimensions of analogue film processes. Her recent projects focus on geology, earth sciences, and volcanology. She has collaborated with composers and scientists, including Lawrence English, Clive Oppenheimer, and Susannah Buchan to create soundscapes that emanate from deep within the earth’s crust, the ocean, and the atmosphere.
Her films have been exhibited at festivals and museums, including TIFF, MoMA, New Directors/New Films Festival, Cinéma du Réel, Edinburgh International Festival, IFFR, CPH:DOX, and Jeonju IFF. Szlam’s 2018 film ALTIPLANO was awarded 25 FPS’s Grand Prix, Melbourne International Film Festival’s Best Experimental Short Film, Curtocircuíto’s Explora, and TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten. Group exhibitions include “femmes volcans forêts torrents” at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and “The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
MERAPI (2021), ALTIPLANO (2018), Morphology of a Dream (2015), Lunar Almanac (2013), Anagrams of Light (2011), Rhythm Trail (2010 – 2011), Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow (2010), Chronogram of Inexistent Time (2008)
A programme of new cinema inspired by the hallucinogenic properties of flowers, archival dissonance, and tales of a grumpy entity who talked only because it could not growl.