Biography
Mavi Phillips is a performance artist, photographer, filmmaker, and curator who creates cathartic surrealist journeys. Born in Portland, Maine in 1987, her work intermixes photography, performance, experimental ethnography and narrative cinema to translate investigations into female sexuality, the interrelationship of spirituality, sexuality, and transcendence; and the borders of society that define normality and reality.
Phillips obtained her BFA in Fine Arts at Parsons in New York, where she studied for a minor in Social Sciences and Media Theory through New School. She then studied filmmaking at EICAR in Paris. She returned to New York to focus on her own work. Phillips’s performance work focuses on an ongoing project since 2009 to document her life, and life itself, through photography and writing. She shows this work in large scale prints and publications, such as books, prints, and editions.
An autonomous filmmaker, Phillips writes, directs, and produces international creative content, surrealist ethno-fictions, and narrative films under her company Orgone Productions. She is currently submitting two short films to festivals: ’Pluck’ a prelude to a feature film in pre-production and ‘The Mirror That Fell to Earth’ a short ethno-fiction on the Busojaras festival in Hungary. She runs Orgone Cineclub, a screening and dinner series in Brooklyn where she shares films that inspire her with her own work.
