ABOUT
Ela Kazdal (b. 2001, Istanbul) is an artist and filmmaker based in London. She reflects on her personal narratives through various film formats and video, with a focus on editing and experimenting with cameraless filmmaking techniques.
She has screened her films across venues such as; the Royal College of Art, Everyman Cinema Kings Cross in London, Fabrica Gallery in Brighton, Æden in Berlin and Salt Beyoğlu in Istanbul as part of the 4th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
In a more or less conscious way, Ela takes the forms from the existing social bonds that she is a part of, and cautiously re-stitches the relational fabric in her own immediate experience. The moments of sociability and exchange that she produces provide the underlying pattern of her films. Through filmmaking, Ela renegotiates the meaning of kinship and tests its limits according to the viewer’s encounter with her works. Acting within a confined and seemingly-broken structure, Ela expands the possibilities of relationships by engaging them in a covert creative collaboration. In fact, the evaluation of these relationships are never openly revealed, but remains in the background of the work, weaved among reminiscences and past experiences from the artist’s life.
Text by Jael Arezi
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Image Credit: Tom Benson
Ela Kazdal (b. 2001, Istanbul) is an artist and filmmaker based in London. She reflects on her personal narratives through various film formats and video, with a focus on editing and experimenting with cameraless filmmaking techniques.
She has screened her films across venues such as; the Royal College of Art, Everyman Cinema Kings Cross in London, Fabrica Gallery in Brighton, Æden in Berlin and Salt Beyoğlu in Istanbul as part of the 4th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
In a more or less conscious way, Ela takes the forms from the existing social bonds that she is a part of, and cautiously re-stitches the relational fabric in her own immediate experience. The moments of sociability and exchange that she produces provide the underlying pattern of her films. Through filmmaking, Ela renegotiates the meaning of kinship and tests its limits according to the viewer’s encounter with her works. Acting within a confined and seemingly-broken structure, Ela expands the possibilities of relationships by engaging them in a covert creative collaboration. In fact, the evaluation of these relationships are never openly revealed, but remains in the background of the work, weaved among reminiscences and past experiences from the artist’s life.
Text by Jael Arezi
Image Credit: Tom Benson