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 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’s Fringe Gallery
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

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

 ‘Shelf Life’ at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery
· 16 April 2025, London, UK
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