Malena Szlam is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Her films, installations, and photographs explore embodied perception and the material and affective dimensions of analogue film process. Szlam's work gives form to lyrical approximations of the natural world. Attentive to the geopolitics of natural phenomena, her recent work focuses on geology, earth science, and volcanology.
Szlam's work has been exhibited at festivals and museums, including Toronto International Film Festival, MoMA, New Directors/New Films, Museum of Moving Image, Media City Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, CPH:DOX, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and 25 FPS. Her film ALTIPLANO received numerous awards, including 25 FPS's Grand Prix, Melbourne International Film Festival's Best Experimental Short Film, and TIFF's Canada's Top Ten 2018.
Recent group exhibitions include "femmes volcans forêts torrents", Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; "Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific", Fulcrum Arts (Los Angeles); Expanded Plus: Utopian Phantom, Factory of Contemporary Arts Palbok (South Korea); and The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark).
Solo presentations include "Inexistent Time" presented by Los Angeles Filmforum and "Infra—" at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art.
MERAPI
2021 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 8' 00 / 75 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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ALTIPLANO
2018 / 35mm / color / sound / single screen / 15' 30 / 136 € distribution: 35mm |
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MORFOLOGÍA DE UN SUEÑO - Morphology of a Dream
2015-2018 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 5' 30 / 75 € distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server |
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LUNAR ALMANAC
2013 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 4' 00 / 75 € distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server |
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ANAGRAMS OF LIGHT - Anagramas de luz
2011 / Super 8mm / color / silent / single screen / 3' 00 / 50 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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RHYTHM TRAIL
2010-2011 / Super 8mm / color / silent / single screen / 10' 00 / 50 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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BENEATH YOUR SKIN OF DEEP HOLLOW - Bajo tu lámina de agujero profundo
2010 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 3' 40 / 50 € distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server |
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CHRONOGRAM OF INEXISTENT TIME - Cronograma de un tiempo inexistente
2008 / 35mm / color / silent / single screen / 6' 00 / 50 € distribution: Digital file on server |