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LA FILMFORUM PRESENTS MALENA SZLAM
April 20, 2018 @ 7:30 pm
April 20th @ 7:30pm
LA FILMFORUM PRESENTS MALENA SZLAM
Los Angeles Filmforum is pleased to present a retrospective of Chilean-born Montréal-based filmmaker Malena Szlam’s film works with the artist in attendance. Working in 35mm, 16mm, Super 8mm, and digital formats Szlam’s silent, poetic, and ethereal compositions explore notions of time, self, the natural world and materiality. Each of her films are meticulously assembled using a menagerie of techniques to physically alter the film elements resulting in dreamlike, collaged, flickering images leaving viewers with a sense of wonderment, displacement and an expanded sense of time. Szlam’s careful construction of her works serves to ground and guide viewers on a serene journey through these brief and powerful cinematic experiences.
This is Szlam’s first retrospective in Los Angeles. Her work includes performance, installation, and single channel film exhibitions. Her work has been featured in numerous international showcases, such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Hong Kong Film Festival, the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (Montréal) and the YYZ Gallery (Toronto). Szlam is recipient of the LIFT – Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s Roberto Ariganello Artist Residency Award 2018.
Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members.
MORE INFO: www.lafilmforum.org , 323-377-7238.