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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The association of camera and pistol is an interesting one.

I thought of images that hurt me. Certain, vague images. Places and objects I’ve seen countless times but wouldn’t be able to describe. I’ve looked at them a thousand times and still cannot describe the exact colour - I told myself that if I saw you again, I would have a good look. They are bluish on the outer circle, there is yellow and green mixed in.

I showed him a still from the car crash scene of Blue (1993) by Krzysztof Kieślowski, UV-printed onto a broken wing mirror I found during my lunch break in Soho. I asked him to guess what it was. A picture of us.

I ended up sparing a few because I couldn’t destroy something that was once sacred.


ESOTSMTFOOM (‘eternal sunshine of the spotless mind‘ the fuck out of myself)



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