Mia is an Australian based photographer + filmmaker.
Her film work explores poetic + surreal ways to expand time, particularly through her slow cinema short films, and slit scan moving images.
Mia’s work has exhibited internationally at the Cannes AVIFF Art Festival, Channels International Biennial of Video Art at the Australian Center for Moving Image, Queensland Film Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival, and Revelation Perth International Film Festival.
Music videos Mia has directed, have been twice nominated for a Queensland Music Award.
Mia’s most recent music video direction explores social and mental health issues, collaborating on two music videos with Northern Rivers recording artist, Moreton.
‘See Yourself’ addresses mental health stigma. The music video was shot entirely on Kodak 200T 16mm film and features a small street cast group of people who volunteered to sit for the camera in a stark upfront audition tape style frame, perfect in their imperfections, vulnerability, and honesty. Given there was limited film stock and roughly 5 minutes with each character, Mia strategically rolled the camera between “takes” – unbeknownst to the characters – with the desire to capture their natural state of vulnerability, rather than a staged performance.
In 2021, Mia’s portraiture was shortlisted for the 2021 Photo Collective Australian Photography Award in the Documentary Category, and subsequently was awarded 3rd place.
Mia has just released her first NFT collection, Bloom, a time-based motion project that features fleurs and fungi, warping to transcend space and time. As the plants transform and mutate over time, the spectacle showcases the history of species and proposes new cosmic futures.
In 2021, Mia was commissioned by ObscuraDAO to take portraits of people in the Web3/NFT space, which intiated the creation of the first Web3 native photography archive.
Before moving to the Northern Rivers, Mia worked for Brisbane International Film Festival as a programmer, a projectionist at the Australian Cinematheque, and with Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art within the in-house digital production team.
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