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 View from Across2024    |    Melted CRT monitor, DVD player, plywood plinth, expired Agfa Moviechrome Super 8 film transferred to video, CCTV footage of Salacak, Istanbul in a 6-minute-loop.
The View from Across is a video installation with a burnt monitor sitting on top of a wooden plinth with a wrought iron grill pattern taken from a door in Salacak, Istanbul. The monitor loops the eerie CCTV footage of Salacak and a scan of an expired Super 8 film, shot on top of a ferry crossing between Asia and Europe.