Filmmaker and visual artist. Malaury Eloi Paisley lives and works in Guadeloupe. After studying art history, museology and fine arts in Paris and Montreal (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III and UQAM), she attended the Ateliers Varan cinema workshop in Guadeloupe in 2016. She directed her first short film Chanzy Blues (30 min). And in 2019, she attended an international masterclass at EICTV ( Escuela Internacional de Cine y de Televisión) in Cuba, on aesthetic approaches to documentary with Brazilian director Marcos Pimentel. And since 2017, she has been involved in the curation and programming of auteur cinema on her island as a programmer with Varan Caraïbe alongside filmmaker Sylvaine Dampierre. She was awarded the Déclic grant from the Fondation de France in 2018 and the Brouillon d' un rêve grant from SCAM ( Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia) in 2019. In 2023, she is one of the winning artists for the Ondes Program residency at the Cité Internationale des arts in Paris. L'Homme-Vertige:Tales of a city (93 min), her first feature film, shot in the city of Pointe-à-Pitre between 2016 and 2023, was selected for the 74th Berlinale and nominated for the Documentary Award. Her film was shown in institutions like Centre Pompidou, BAM ( Brooklyn Academy of Music) and HKW in Berlin. And has won many awards across the Caribbean, Morocco and more recently The Golden Stallion of Yennenga and The Paul Robeson Prize for the diaspora at the Pan African cinema film festival in Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in 2025. Her work has been featured in Variety (US), The New Yorker, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Cineninja (Brazil) and was mentionned in the British Institute “The best films of 2024” list. L'Homme-Vertige was acquired in 2025 by the CNAP (Centre national des arts plastiques) in France, as part of their contemporary art films collection. And La Lucarne ARTE TV CHANNEL in 2025. She was part of the first season of the Tropical Papers residency program in 2025: Atelier de savoirs partagés by the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation. As a film curator and guest filmmaker, she was given the opportunity of a “Carte Blanche” as part of Festival du Film indépendant de Bordeaux (FIFIB) in October 2025. And was also invited by the festival to develop her last film project, Memoirs & Fictions of an Island. Before its Vanishing, a trilogy of hybrid feature films in LE C.L.O.S residency in Bordeaux. In 2026, she is a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, supporting the development of her research-based and transdisciplinary practice.