Malena Szlam is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in 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.
Solo presentations include "Inexistent Time" presented by Los Angeles Filmforum and "Infra—" at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art.
Source: https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-12523-malena-szlam
