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).
When a girl loves her shoes, she always make them fit.
I have worn shoes my friend, my toes were like this - because they didn’t have my size.
Every time I went to a store and I loved those shoes, they said,
- What size are you ma’am?
- No, you don’t understand. What size do you have?”
I’ll make them work,
I’ll make them fit.
I will walk the shoe.
I walk the shoe, the shoe don’t walk me.
I’ve worked shoes with my feet like this, and sometimes like this to hold onto them.
From 6 to 10,
give it to me,
I love them,
here we go.
when a girl loves her shoes, she always makes them fit
2025
42×24×28 cm
Silicone, lace, button, string.
When a girl loves her shoes
4 min 53 sec.
sound collaboration with Iñaki Ramírez Romero