Lunar Almanac

Malena Szlam / Canada, Chile / 2013 / Central European Premiere / 4 min.

synopsis

Lunar observations shoted frame-by-frame and long exposures on hand processed 16mm Ektachrome film create a chronicle of the lunar phases. Th rough their layering, the filmmaker emphasizes that the observer, burdened by memory and changing frames of view, moves along a non-linear time-planes.

DETAIL:
A nearly abstract figure of rounded shapes in a dark space is disturbed by clouds and brances, non-geometric signs of the physical surroundings.

biography

Visual artist Malena Szlam Salazar (1979) was born in Chile, but today lives and works in Montreal, Canada. Her art, which straddles the line between experimental film and media installations, has been shown at many international festivals and galleries. In her work, she focuses primarily on an exploration of the depiction of time in still and moving pictures. Her film Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow (2010) was shown previously in Jihlava IDFF’s Fascinations section.