Archipelago of Earthen Bones – To Bunya

synopsis

Malena Szlam (born 1979) is a Chilean filmmaker living in Montreal, Canada. Her audiovisual work is permeated by a sensitivity to the geopolitical and geological layers of the landscapes she explores, and an emphasis on the affective dimension of film processes. Her works have been shown at festivals and exhibitions; in 2024, for example, she participated in the exhibition femmes volcans forêts torrents at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. The Ji.hlava IDFF, which discovered her for the Central European region, has screened her films Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow (2010), Lunar Almanac (2013), and Morphology of a Dream (2018).

film details

director:	Malena Szlam
producer:	John Edmond
photography:	Malena Szlam
editing:	Malena Szlam
sound:	Lawrence English
sound design:	Lawrence English