Malga Kubiak

Malga KUBIAK (1950, Poland) is an avant-garde filmmaker, writer and artist. After studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, she moved abroad, living in London, Copenhagen’s Christiania, Sweden and the United States. She studied performance under Yoshio Nakajima and later attended Valand Konstskola and the Video School in Sweden. Since 1984, she has created more than forty films, often provocative and censored, exploring queer and underground icons. Her works have screened at Anthology Film Archives and independent venues internationally. In 2015, she received the Polar Bear Award from the Scandinavian LGBTQ organisation Tupilak, and her films PPPasolini (2015) and PPPasolini Epilog (2015) won the Audience Award at the Warsaw LGBT Film Festival.

Filmography

(selection ) Andy Warhol To Se Vrati (2016), Raoul’s Boys of Budapest (2018), Raoul Wallenberg: Tragic Hero or Agent 103? (2018), Bloody Shadows (2018), Epokalipsa (2019), The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal (2020), Secret Sweet – Tribute to Carl Andersen 1958–2012 (2020), At the Back of the Screen (2020), D’Vinci Testa Rosa Now (2022, co-dir), Lucia Joyce & Flappers (2023), FETISH (2026)