Mavi Phillips makes bold, unique, powerful visual and sensual experiences that push the boundaries of society and reality to relay information in unexpected ways. A multi-talented creative, Phillips's work focuses on sociopolitical topics and the female perspective through a vast range of mediums, from freelance commercial work, independent documentaries, narrative films, and artist videos, often mixing multiple genres, to cinema events and curations, to conceptual performance art and painting.

Several years dedicate to producing her own projects, she has produced these films in France, Morocco, Hungary, Italy, and the USA. Currently based in Brooklyn, she’s an autonomous filmmaker who writes, directs, edits, and produces her own films and collaborates on commissioned content. Phillips is dedicated to challenging society’s depiction of women through powerful, visceral visual experiences that seeks to break down society’s barriers and to empower viewers with the freedom to be themselves.

She obtained her BFA from Parsons in New York, and received a certificate for Directing and screenwriting from EICAR in Paris, France. Her performance photography has been published in books and online, and she is currently developing a traveling exhibition. Her photo and video work has been published and screened in publications and venues across several countries. A recently commissioned photo project was published online and in print with New York Times, and her most recent short had its USA premiere at SF Indie in February.

Her international connections have led her to be a part of two female-driven collectives based in Europe, Female Narratives, based in London its an international integrated creative agency that operates using a collective of female freelancers to connect brands to real women and real stories. She has shown work with Photographing the Female, a global platform that uses the transformational power of visual storytelling to explore what it means to be female today. She hopes to be able to use her international connections and creative community to help build stronger client work that’s able to branch out into the larger movement of female empowerment through storytelling.

REPRESENTATION: Female Narratives (London)

FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS: Corbra Cinema (Brooklyn, NY), Transmitter Gallery (screening of The Mirror That Fell To EarthBrooklyn, NY), Field Projects Gallery (screening of ‘La Petite Mort, New York, NY) SF Indie (Screening of ‘Pluck’, San Fransico, CA), Barcelona Short Film Festival (Screening of ‘Pluck,’ Spain),  Orgone Cineclub (Floral and Fauna, Screening, New York), Cannes Short Corner (‘La Petite Mort’), Caravan Short Film Festival (‘La Petite Mort,’ Italy), White Box (Screening, New York)

INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS: SVA publication (Interview and exhibition of work, New York, NY), New York Times (Beach Session Photo Published), FotoFilmic (Performance Photos, Photo Competition + Online Publication, Canada), Celeste Prize Shortlist (Europe Art Competition) Kaltbult Magazine , Metal Magazine (Interview, Spain), Wait Okay (New York)

EXHIBITIONS: Negative Space (Brooklyn), Proto (New Jersey), Beacon Gallery (Boston), Oval Space (London) Merce Muse ( Publication + Exhibition, Paris)