Visceral and cacophonous, Malic Amalya’s films traverse gritty landscapes of abandoned buildings, blast zones, and back rooms. Situated between non-linear avant-garde traditions, the oppositional and self-reflective aesthetic considerations of queercore, and an intersectional feminist politic, he creates single channel and expanded cinema performances across 16mm and Super 8 film, digital and analog video, and 35mm slides. His creative framework is informed by prison abolition, decolonization, anti-racism, gender self-determination, disability justice, anti-capitalism, and climate justice.
Since 2014, Amalya has been collaborating with Nathan Hill under the name Vitreous Chamber. Amalya’s films have screened in film festivals and queer bars across the world. Festival screenings include Festival Les Merveilles (Paris), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Light Field Film Festival (San Francisco), MIX Copenhagen, the Scottish Queer Film Festival, Cinema of the Dam’d (Amsterdam), EXiS Festival (Seoul), Onion City (Chicago), the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, MIX NYC, and the TIE Cinema Exposition (Milwaukee & Montreal). Visuals for dance nights at queer bars include “Buttcocks” at Club SchwuZ in Berlin, Germany, “Trqpiteca” at Danny’s in Chicago, and “Other Stranger” at The Stud in San Francisco.
Malic Amalya is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and Film Production at Emerson College. He holds an an MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois, Chicago; a MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute; and a BA from Hampshire College.
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