MIRELLA MOSCHELLA
PORTFORLIO 2022
PHOTO:
SHORT FILMS
Ciao Tromph
Rome, Italy 2022
Photographer / Filmmaker (work in progress).
A graffiti writer died eleven years ago, and every year since then, his family and friends gather to make a community day in his honor. This event offers a free wall for graffiti writers from all crews, backgrounds, and experience levels. Dance workshops and sketches painting activities are also available for kids. In the last edition, around two hundred graffiti artists, twenty hip-hop dance performers, and two music bands were involved.
Millo Mural Project
Palestine / Jordan 2022
Photographer / Filmmaker (work in
Part 1 - Photos
progress)
I traveled besides Millo, a recognized Italian street artist, to the Middle East (Ramallah and Amman) and joined the experience of painting the biggest mural until today in Palestine and another one, even bigger, inAmman.
As a result, this project has more than five terabytes of footage we needed to hide when crossing the Israeli borders that control the entrance and exit of Palestinean territory. Millo invited me to join this experience to create photographic and video documentation of it. The short documentary is the project I want to develop during the residency at Jan Van Eyck.
PhotographicArchive: https://www.dropbox.com/home/MILLO%20PICS
Double lives: female in hip hop culture
Auckland, New Zealand 2021
Filmmaker
In 2019, the organizers of a new project for females involved in Hip Hop culture invited me to be the filmmaker. This initiative, created by the New Zealander graffiti writer “Fluro,” aims to create a digital platform where women from all over the world can support each other. Since Graffiti, and Hip Hop in general, is a male-dominated field, the collective reinforcement could make a difference.After a couple of years of planning and open calls, we created this video in 2021.
Video 01:34 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk8ywzpKp9A&feature=youtu. be&ab_channel=mira_a_mire
Newtown Hall by Kerb
Wellington, New Zealand, 2021
Photographer / Filmmaker
Kerb is the local legend of graffiti in Wellington. When one of his murals was covered by mistake by the Council, the community responded.
Teaser 0:47 sec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNqHCbIKLps
Short Documentary 09:50 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jshOrBUhddo
South Sea Spray
Bluff, New Zealand, 2021 StreetArt Festival
Filmmaker
This street art festival gathered the most prominent street artists in New Zealand and brought them to the southwest town of the country: a quiet area where locals struggle to call attention to visitors. This short documentary shared the artists' perspectives about this experience and the local community's response.
Teaser 0:49 sec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMpgSQdo__A
Short Documentary
17:21 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9_jsxFBJ14&t=2s
Cinzah
Wellington, New Zealand, 2021
In this film the Kiwi artist Cinzah talks about his work, the city, and the experience of being a public artist from New Zealand. Short Documentary 05:31 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgQuqvOA0U
Photographer / Filmmaker
The Most Dedicated: an Aotearoa Graffiti Story
Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 2021 ArtShowatDowseMuseum
Filmmaker
The most recognized graffiti crew from New Zealand celebrated their twentieth anniversary with a legendary exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum, The Dowse. The show recreated the crew's beginnings, including a Dairy, a Writer's Flat, and a train car painted inside the gallery.
Videos: StreetArt Festival 04:14 min Museum Exhibition 01:00 min The Flat; 01:00 min
Street Prints
Tauranga / Palmerston North, New Zealand, 2020 StreetArtFestival
TMD Murals, Lower Hutt - Mural Project
Lower Hutt, New Zealand 2020
Filmmaker / Photographer
The New Zealand-Australian-German art crew “The Most Dedicated” introduced themselves to the Lower Hutt community a year before their show at the Dowse Museum, a contemporary art institution located in this community. With a couple of big murals, and mentoring programs for the local youth, the artists engaged with this community that embraced their work. Video 03:47min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mCZBjnxStE&t=4s
Glam Lima, Peru 2019
Short documentary Filmmaker A profile short documentary about the female “Top-bomber” graffiti writer: GLAM. The video narrated by the young writer is also a portrait about the peruvian capital and the experiences behind graffiti. Teaser: 0:43 sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TYMbRW8ukU Short Documentary 07:46 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5tBdrMvjPg&t=6s
Ñatinta La Paz, Bolivia 2018
Street art festival
Filmmaker
This street art festival, celebrated in the main public cemetery in La Paz, is a unique gem. Not just because of the particularity of the venue but also because it happens during the week of the deads: a vast cultural celebration in Bolivia and different indigenous cultures all overAmerica.
Short documentary 06:02 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZDSActZOHk
Muralizando el Bosque Seco de Serrán Piura, Perú 2017 Mural project and short film Organizer / Filmmaker / Photographer
The community of Serrán, Piura needed to bring attention to weather changes, and water struggles in their locality. They called me and ask if we can bring a group of artists to paint murals there, as a way of voicing their concerns. What they didn’t expect, is that the project would bring together the biggest names in the Peruvian street art scene; Elliot Tupac, Decertor, Pesimo, and others. It was a moving experience for both locals and artists.
Short Documentary 07:54 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhLzegeiKtY&t=37s
Latido Americano Paraguay
Asuncion, Paraguay 2016
Director/filmmaker
Short Films featuring different SouthAmerican street artist participating in the street art festival “LatidoAmericano.” in its Paraguayan Edition.
Videos: GLEO 0:44 sec BINHO 0:36 sec ENTES 0:39 sec
Entes & Pesimo in Wynwood
Miami, United States, 2016
Filmmaker In their first time at Wynwood, Miami, a crew of South American street artists from Perú, Ecuador and Paraguay, resourcefully get to paint a big wall in the middle of town, showing their skills during one of the most important weeksforstreetartsintheworld.
Video 03:03 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jUbW6wwV54
PROJECTS
Here & Out
Wellington, New Zealand 2022 Exhibition, festival.
Initiator / Curator / Filmmaker
Here & Out is the result of reflections on the journeys of nine female street artists from five different countries during the Covid 19 pandemic outbreak.After a series of conversations on our situation, we put together an exhibition at Toi Poneke Art Center and organized public interventions in its surrounding area. Artists with more than a decade of experience leaving murals on the streets of Perú, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Belgium, Hong Kong, The United States, Aotearoa, and many more, came together for this multiformat event.
Videos: Intro 02:25 min: Recap 01:29 min: Caratoes Sculpture Making of 0:58 sec. Fluro & Miriama’s Collab Mural 01:06 min GLEO & Gina Kiels Digital Collab
Other Links: 360 Exhibition Panel Discussions Link Tree
Craftivism Collective
Wellington, New Zealand 2020-2022
Facilitator /Artist
This feminist craft-activism collective was formed by me and shared with other Latino migrants living in Wellington, New Zealand. Our main project was to spread Latino culture in Wellington through public art, such as performances and fabric-based art installations, in our mother language: Spanish.
Newtown Fest Performance:
Video 00:51 sec: https://www.instagram.com/p/CN034wbJP4m/
Fabric bombing: Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNqa3CNhRNa/
Workshops
Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXZvLiZPIZl/
Martha Cooper ; La Historia en Imágenes
Lima, Peru 2019 Exhibition at the ContemporaryArt Museum of Lima
Short documentary
Initiator / Curator / Filmmaker
Together with muralist Meki, we invited Martha Cooper, the legendary Hip Hop, street art, and graffiti photographer to visit Lima on October 2019 and showcase a selection of her archive. During her days in our city, we visited and photographed some of the best hidden ‘spots’ for graffiti artists in Lima. This short documentary is a visual synthesis of those days with Martha.
Teaser 00:47 sec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3f2FfPzcXA
Short documentary 12:54 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBncHIvCUws&t=65s
Stills
First independent publication about my Graffiti and Street art photographies. The images were taken in Peru, from 2011 to 2019. The Fanzine was presented in different independent publications fairs such as “Manifesto” (Lima 2019), “Wellington Zine Fest” (Wellington, 2019).
Lima Mural Festival
Lima, Perú 2018 Mural art festival Initiator / Producer / Filmmaker / Photographer
Lima is a concrete city full of canvases. We limeños call it “Lima la Gris” (Lima the grey). Under this context, two street artists and I decided to do something about it. We created the Lima Mural organization to support the street art movement in Lima and have as the center of all our activities an international street art festival: “Lima Mural Festival.” In its first edition, we invited over 30 artists (national and international) and painted small, medium, and big-scale murals around the Miraflores neighborhood.
Videos:
Lima Mural Manifesto 01:53 min Alex Senna Video 01:43 min Eric Skotnes 01:46 min
I am a Peruvian independent interdisciplinary filmmaker and artist. My practice involves graffiti and street art documentation, research through film, photography, and embroidery, as well as festival organizing and production. I got involved in the urban art scene in Peru in 2011, intrigued by how street artists and writers expressed themselves in public space with the knowledge that their art would be covered or demolished the next week. In this context, the documentation of it is vital. This was a field in which my skills were needed, which gave me access to a fascinating underground world.
Other short films: 2017 Lima, Peru Latido Americano Peru 2018 SEF Mural Pueblo Libre - Short Film 2019 Muros Abiertos (Open Walls) 2020 Mexico DF, Mexico Ciudad Mujeres (Women City) - Street Art Festival 2021 Auckland, New Zealand Dawn Raid Movie Contact: www.miraamire.com / mire@miraamire.com
