Ela Kazdal (b. 2001, Istanbul) is an artist based in London. Developing her practice from a background in cinema, she works with film, video, print and sculpture - with a focus on personal and collective archives. Working primarily with 8mm, 16mm and 35mm film in the past, she is concerned with how images translate between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. Kazdal relates to various meanings of ‘film,’ being both the two-dimensional projection of moving image and inherently an object. This distinction of film challenges her to build upon its (im)material properties, at times resulting in analog-digital hybrids. She has presented her films at Everyman Cinema in London, Æden in Berlin, Salt Beyoğlu in Istanbul as part of the 4th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival and in the UK tour of Platform Asia’s ‘Germinate’ screenings at Firstsite, Fabrica Gallery and Royal College of Art.