Raised in New England, brought up on riot grrrl, magnetized to Chicago, and obsessed with color, Malic Amalya started making videos at a cable access television station before being seduced by 16mm filmmaking. He holds a BA from Hampshire College and is currently earning his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work blends both experimental and narrative styles to explore fluxuations in perception, memory, identity, and relationships. His work has screened throughout North America, including the TIE Cinema Exposition in Montreal, the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, the Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the Around the Coyote Gallery in Chicago. When he does not have a camera up to his eye he can often be found riding his bicycle through the snowy streets or drinking tea with his rabbit Beatrice.

INFLUENCES
static electricity, color combinations, voyeurism, other people's home movies, long vermont roads, memoirs, girlhood, queer culture and radical genders, feminist film theory, the santa fe sky, bikini kill, chipped paint on old buildings, his grandmother's hummel collection, power plants and telephone wires, astrology, looking out car windows on road trips across the midwest, biking home alone in the middle of the night, femme friendships, elementary school crushes on boys with rat tails, repetetive thinking, winter landscapes without snow, oil paint and the smell of turpentine, miscommunication and missed connections, his roommate jessi and his cousin peter, heartbreak and roadkill.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

Killer Janitors. in collaboration with Kasten Searles. video. 30 minutes. 1996

Bearded Ladies, He-She's, and Other Monstrosities. video. 3 minutes. 1998

Room 206. super 8 film. 2 minutes. 2005

Photographic Memories. digital video. 2 minutes. 2005

Through The Woods. digital video. 12 minutes. 2006

Training Tapes. digital video. 4 minutes. 2006

Eddie, Pam, Gary, Sue. 16mm film. 4 minutes. 2007

Gossamer Walls. in collaboration with Peter Miller. 16mm film. 3 minutes. 2007

Window Dancing. 16mm film. work in progress

Boots For Tula. 16mm film. work in progress