ela kazdal

Ela is an artist and filmmaker based in London and a video editor at MUBI. She has presented her films at Salt and Beyoglu Cinema in Istanbul (TR), Æden and Wolf Kino in Berlin (DE), Everyman Cinema, Firstsite, Fabrica, Royal College of Art (UK) The Film-maker’s Cooperative in New York (US) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL).  

















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open-air screening at benta
15 August 2025, 20:30

Ela Kazdal presents films by Demon Lovers Inc., Pedro Gossler and Chino Moya that offer varying perspectives on life and labour in the Anthropocene epoch. Set across different timelines and aesthetics, the films unravel contemporary anxieties, a soft spot for optimisation and efficiency, coupled with carcinogens and ruin. Demon Lovers Inc.’s ‘LIFE’ is an ASMR monologue, whispered over a cascade of AI-generated, VHS-filtered found footage. A study in dissociation, spiritual flatness, and ambient grief. In ‘Eternit’, Pedro investigates Asbestos on a split-screen - a once pervasive material made available in houses and infrastructures, but now banned in most countries. Asbestos turns into a protagonist connecting a patchwork of stories on architecture, culture, immortality and time. Chino’s ‘Three Fluctuations’ looks at humanity’s future from an overworked, precarious present. It’s set in a post-corporeal world in which an evolved network of synthetic entities, in a stroke of cosmic nostalgia, re-create the world of humans after they’ve vanished.

DemonLovers Inc. @daemonlovers (est. 2024) is the collaborative practice of visual artists and filmmaking partners Dayana Matasheva and Edson Niebla, based in Montréal and soon in New York. Centered on video, their work approaches the internet as a desire machine, framing algorithms not as systems of logic but as rituals of projection, control, and fantasy. Recent presentations include Sight & Sound (Eastern Bloc, Montréal, 2024) and group exhibitions in Milan, Berlin, and Hamburg (2025).

Chino Moya (b. 1976 Madrid) lives and works in London. In 2021, Moya released his debut feature film “Undergods,” funded by the British Film Institute and Ridley Scott’s Black Dog Films. Premiering in cinemas in the US and the UK, it was selected as Film of the Week by The Guardian. Recent shows include his solo show ‘Meta-Mythical Optimisation’ at Seventeen Gallery in London and ‘Digital Witness’ named after his work at LACMA.

Pedro Gossler (b.1993) is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, NL applying photography, video and animation to research the use of memory and archive in post-internet times. His work has been presented at the International Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro and recently won the prizes for best documentary at Sheffield Int Doc Fest and Most Innovative film at Visions du Réel. His film ‘Fanfictional Politics’ is currently available to watch on DIS.