ela kazdal

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

moving image

Square
if you seek amy
thread, chain, beads and tacks
Early Stages of Carrying the Boulder
Looking for Nothing
Concerto of Ambiguities

exhibitions

camera shy
The Luster
Shelf Life
Aurora Instinct
Thirst Trap
Spider Spindle (unfinished)
Jeune et Jolie (Young and Beautiful)
In Days of Heatwave
Light Beams Under a Bridge
Odd Seeds
A Night of Opera and Film
The Creation of the World, The Now, The End

mentions

online

Hors champ, Review by Maude Trottier
21. Yüzyıl Sinemasında Arşivi Yeniden Düşünmek - Serdar Kökçeoğlu, Hasan Cem Çal
Kıraathane Istanbul Edebiyat Evi: watch here

‘if you seek amy’ Labocine ‘Resonance’ August 2025 Issue

A video installation, a London gathering: if you seek amy | vitruta
SHOWnews: London Gallery Weekend
Huxley selects

offline

EVERYONE IS A GIRL: 𝒮𝑒𝒹𝓊𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃, Zine 2, May 2024, London, UK.
Currents, The <3 Issue, June 2024, NY, US

upcoming

archive

Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival,
17 May 2026, Istanbul, TR

Filmfest Dresden
April 2026 in Dresden, DE

Open City Documentary Festival: Film Challenge
19 April 2026 at Rich Mix Cinema, London, UK

videoclub: Lost & Found: Archiving Eternal Fragilities

22 March 2026 at Spore Initiative, Berlin, DE

See Sound Turin
8 March 2026, Turin, IT

In Days of Heatwave (group exhibition)
26 February 2026, Arthub, London

Labocine: PIGMENTO
February 2026

pie: Ela Kazdal presents Pedro Gossler
26 November 2025, Photobook Cafe, London, UK

Engauge Experimental Film Festival

screening of ‘thread, chain, beads and tacks’

8 November 2025, Seattle, US

Drunken Film Fest

screening of ‘if you seek amy’

10 October 2025, Oakland, US

Festival Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal

screening of ‘if you seek amy’

9 and 14 October 2025, Quebec, Canada

Bad Art presents ‘Fandom’
5 September 2025, London Art Services, London, UK

Kiraathane Istanbul Edebiyat Evi
talk on ‘Rethinking Archive in 21st Century Cinema’
screening of ‘if you seek amy’

10 September 2025, Istanbul, TR

Look at the Lights, My Love
11-15 September 2025
Filet Space, London, UK

There’s No Cloud (There Is Always Someone Else’s Computer) by Video Club
talk and screening of ‘if you seek amy’
31 August 2025 at Spore Initiative, Berlin, DE

‘as long as possible’
open air screening (curator)
15 August 2025 at BENTA, Istanbul, TR

Labocine ‘Resonance’ August 2025 Issue
‘if you seek amy’

Goodnight, Captain Midnight!
screening of ‘if you seek amy’
9 August 2025, Holy Trinity Church, London, UK

Wild Iris
screening of ‘thread, chain, beads and tacks’
8 June 2025, St. Peter’s Church, London, UK

if you seek amy
video installation
7 June 2025, vitruta, London, UK
(solo)

Leiden Shorts
screening of ‘if you seek amy’
1 and 3 June 2025, Leiden, NL

‘camera shy’

Fringe Gallery, Filmverkstaden
· 24 May - 22 June 2025, Vaasa, FIN
(solo)

Xposed Queer Film Festival screening of ‘if you seek amy’

· 30 May 2025, Wolf Kino, Berlin, DE

The 12th Annual New Year / New Work Film Festival
screening of ‘thread, chain, beads and tacks’

· 18 April 2025, NY, US

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

· 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