Marta Rodriguez Maleck

History

Marta Rodriguez Maleck is a filmmaker and artist who works in audio, video, and installation, engaging people in participatory methods of storytelling that encourage communal accountability, healing, and understanding. By creating environments conducive to self-reflection, she explores the roles we play in our interactions with one another and where the intersections of our identities and prejudices lie. Rodriguez Maleck has shown publicly and institutionally at the New Orleans Museum of Art and Canal Place Mall in New Orleans, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Pensacola Museum of Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Baby Blue Gallery, and Anas Galley in Chicago, AnyTime Dept in Cincinnati, and Ground Floor Gallery in Brooklyn. Marta hosts a bi-monthly podcast on Montez Press Radio in New York called 'Reports from New Orleans.' Rodriguez Maleck lives and works in New Orleans.

Movies

Nonstop
Nonstop
Director
The interconnected daily journeys of bus riders and operators on the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority bus lines illuminate why the black community here has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. While the bus operators fight for proper PPE, hazard pay, and sick time off they continue to provide a necessary, but dangerous service to frontline workers, the sick, and the homeless population through a pandemic.
The Only Thing Left to Do Is Start
The Only Thing Left to Do Is Start
Editor
Sam Langberg began training for the ironman triathlon 4 months before the COVID-19 pandemic would turn his typical day as an ER doctor on its head. Even though his race was canceled two months into the New Orleans quarantine, he decided to embark on the 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile run – solo. This documentary short follows Sam’s day long journey, shifting through his memories of struggles in the hospital, and ultimately, showing his ability to endure.
The Only Thing Left to Do Is Start
The Only Thing Left to Do Is Start
Producer
Sam Langberg began training for the ironman triathlon 4 months before the COVID-19 pandemic would turn his typical day as an ER doctor on its head. Even though his race was canceled two months into the New Orleans quarantine, he decided to embark on the 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile run – solo. This documentary short follows Sam’s day long journey, shifting through his memories of struggles in the hospital, and ultimately, showing his ability to endure.
The Only Thing Left to Do Is Start
The Only Thing Left to Do Is Start
Director
Sam Langberg began training for the ironman triathlon 4 months before the COVID-19 pandemic would turn his typical day as an ER doctor on its head. Even though his race was canceled two months into the New Orleans quarantine, he decided to embark on the 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile run – solo. This documentary short follows Sam’s day long journey, shifting through his memories of struggles in the hospital, and ultimately, showing his ability to endure.
The Bottom: A Noise Opera
The Bottom: A Noise Opera
Dancer #2
Follow the noise diva, Oblivia, through a day in the nightlife: a drunken spiral on the Vegas Strip, followed by a sensational pop moment in the Chisos Mountains, and finally getting lost at sea with only a giant yellow inflatable duck.