ela kazdal


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Ela Kazdal is an artist and filmmaker based in London. She is a video editor at MUBI.

She has presented her films at Salt Beyoğlu in Istanbul, Æden in Berlin, Everyman Cinema,  Firstsite, Fabrica Gallery, Royal College of Art in the UK and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in the Netherlands.

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upcoming

Onion City Experimental Film Festival
screening of ‘if you seek amy’
· 3-6 April 2025, Chicago, US

 Swiss Cottage Library Gallery
· 16 April 2025, London, UK

The 12th Annual New Year / New Work Film Festival
screening of ‘thread, chain, beads and tacks’
· 18 April 2025, NY, US
Vitruta x DF
· 8 May 2025, London, UK

 Filmverkstaden
solo exhibition
· 24 May - 22 June 2025, Vaasa, Finland
Working without a camera, Kazdal unsettles the frame and rejects its function as a boundary between inner and outer spaces. Across the works on display, film asserts its tactile, three-dimensional presence—fractured traces of the visual emerge as the filmstrip and other objects undergo reworking, obscuring, and decay.
Xposure Queer Film Festival
screening of ‘if you seek amy’
· June 2025, Berlin, DE
past

thread, chain, beads and tacks
World Premiere
Cosmic Rays
· March 2025, North Carolina, US

if you seek amy
World Premiere
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
· 1, 2 and 3rd of February 2025 Rotterdam, NL
Aurora Instinct
Group show curated by Display Fever
· 9 Jan - 1 Feb 2025 at Hypha Studios Camberwell, London, UK

3x3 Short Film Programme
· 12 October 2024 at Beyoğlu Cinema, Istanbul, TR

Art Talk with Enes Alba
· 31 July 2024 at Bilsart Istanbul, TR

Light Beams Under a Bridge
· September 2023,  London, UK

Cinema CSM Festival
· 9-11 May 2023 at Central Saint Martins, London, UK

A Night of Opera and Film - Earthquake Fundraiser
· May 2023, London, UK

4th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
· November 2022, Istanbul, TR

The Creation of the World, the Now, the End
· June 2022, Berlin, DE