ela kazdal

Ela is an artist and filmmaker based in London and a video editor at MUBI. She has presented her films at Salt and Beyoglu Cinema in Istanbul (TR), Æden and Wolf Kino 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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On the Intimate Technics of Film with Ela Kazdal | Ester Freider

mentions
online A video installation, a London gathering: if you seek amy | vitruta
Huxley selects

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

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

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

TBA
screening of ‘if you seek amy’
5-10 October 2025, Oakland, US

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

TBA
screening of ‘if you seek amy’
6-8 November 2025, Seattle, US.

past

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

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

Xposure Queer Film Festival
· 30 May 2025, Wolf Kino, Berlin, DE

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