Altiplano
Fusing earth with sky, day with night, heartbeat with mountain, and mineral with iridescent cloud, Altiplano reveals a vibrating landscape in which a bright blue sun threatens to eclipse a blood-red moon.
- Chile, Argentina, Canada
- 2018, 16 min
- Director: Malena Szlam
- Director of photography: Malena Szlam
- Editor: Malena Szlam
- Producer: Oona Mosna, Malena Szlam
Malena Szlam
Born in Chile, Malena Szlam is an artist and filmmaker working at the intersection of cinema, installation, and performance. Malena's work has been shown at various festivals and museums including Rotterdam, Toronto, New York, Edinburgh, Media City, 25 FPS, Mar del Plata, and Hong Kong film festivals, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, and the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Oslo). Her latest film, Altiplano, premiered as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's Wavelengths and was chosen as one of TIFF's Top Ten Canadian Short Films of 2018.