Malaz Usta is a filmmaker, a designer and a visual artist, working with film, graphics, animation, editing, and sound. He was born in Damascus, Syria. He studied TV, and Cinema in Istanbul, and he obtained his Master’s of film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy. His works, which have been screened at major film festivals like IFFR, Ji.hlava, and Movies that Matter, deal with different issues of displacement, alienation, and ideas of belonging, identity, memory, and home. In his ongoing artistic research, he explores the poetics of exile, waiting and uncertainty through his use of personal diary, poetry, home video footage, 3D modeling, video archive, animation, and game engines. Through his works, Malaz tries to convey deeper understanding, explore emotions, and generate empathy by being personal, vulnerable, and engaging with the spectator other.