Madeleine Bazil is a visual artist, writer, and producer interested in memory, intimacy, and the ways we navigate environments—real and imagined.

Her directorial debut, Grandpa Ernest Speaks, has screened in film festivals globally and has been described as a ‘nuanced poetic representation of an intensely subjective experience’. With Holding Thumbs Productions, she is in development on a feature documentary about South African feminist writer and activist Olive Schreiner. Her poetry appears in New Contrast, Stanzas, The Seventh Wave, West Branch Magazine, Sonora Review, Identity Theory, and elsewhere, and she has contributed essays and arts criticism to e.g. Pleiades, ArtThrob, and Split Lip Magazine. Her reportage bylines include It’s Freezing in LA! and Icarus Complex Magazine. As Digital Producer for Icarus Complex, she produces visual storytelling exploring climate change’s systemic roots and solutions. Her creative practice has been supported by Joya AiR and Union Docs. Madeleine holds an MA in Documentary Arts from the University of Cape Town and an MA in English Literature from Scotland’s University of St Andrews. 

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