FILMS

Moss Mother

Moss Mother

Excerpt from an immersive instillation series debuted at ‘Heart of a Lion Exhibition’

Moss Corset & Concept by Mia Xavez

2022

playground

Playground

The dissolution of a dalliance between two lovers reveals the different lenses of trauma that they see one another through.

Directed by Mia Xavez

2020

Debuted at FOCUS Film Festival New York, NY 2021

murder, they wrote

Murder, They Wrote

Murder, They Wrote imagines three contemporary artists suddenly dropped into the worlds of three of Roman Polanski's films. Imprisoned in the chains of Polanski's gynophobic narratives, they subvert the predatory director's mise en scène to communicate with one another across the films and find freedom. Together, they stage a cinematic revolution and heal.

Directed by Mia Xavez

Starring Nathanya Alexander, Genesis Adams, and Mia Xavez

Coming Soon

2019

BABY

Baby

Baby interrogates the possibility of heterosexual romantic love without violence in one form or another. My best friend had just got her first boyfriend, I was writing a paper on The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and my queerness was burgeoning…obviously.

Starring

Rebecca Mellinkoff

Saskia DeBorchgrave

Jake Spivack

Danny Perez

Directed, Shot & Edited by Mia Xavez

2016

BANG BANG

Bang Bang

Inspired by Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang,” Bang Bang is a meditation on the violent effects of the media’s reinforcement of patriarchal machismo especially in settings of hyper-masculinity. Directed by Mia Xavez at the age of 17 in 2014.

Directed by Mia Xavez

Starring Isabel Rojas and Soren Wilde

Featuring Gianna Butler and Simon Richard

2014

LAYLA

Layla

Everyday, the expectations attached to Layla's burgeoning "femininity" wear her thin.

Premiered at the Angelika Film Center New York City, 2014

Directed by Mia Xavez

Starring Priscilla Disla

2014