ela kazdal

Ela is an artist and filmmaker based in London and a video editor at MUBI. She has presented her films at Salt Beyoğlu in Istanbul (TR), Æden 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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The association of camera and pistol is an interesting one.

I thought of images that hurt me. Certain, vague images. Places and objects I’ve seen countless times but wouldn’t be able to describe. I’ve looked at them a thousand times and still cannot describe the exact colour - I told myself that if I saw you again, I would have a good look. They are bluish on the outer circle, there is yellow and green mixed in.

I showed him a still from the car crash scene of Blue (1993) by Krzysztof Kieślowski, UV-printed onto a broken wing mirror I found during my lunch break in Soho. I asked him to guess what it was. A picture of us.

I ended up sparing a few because I couldn’t destroy something that was once sacred.


ESOTSMTFOOM (‘eternal sunshine of the spotless mind‘ the fuck out of myself)



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