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 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.