director + writer // stage + screen

Creative Director and Film Maker. Just as tall as Michael Jordan.

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Monika K. Adler is an acclaimed photographer and avant-garde filmmaker known for her challenging and provocative photography and experimental films. Her works have been exhibited in hundreds of photography, video art, and film festivals, art museums, and galleries worldwide. Adler’s films and image-based works have been the subject of several academic studies and published in many magazines and publications. She lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

At the intersection of fashion, photography, film, stagecraft, and design, artist Marina Fini creates hallucinatory, alternative worlds. Based in California, she collaborates with friends and artists alike in the staging of these otherworldly scenes, using colorful costumes and her own handmade, plexiglass jewelry to turn her photographic subjects into ethereal cyber goddesses. When asked how she builds these characters, Fini remarked, “there’s something about transforming someone into someone they wouldn’t normally be … that is, creating an extension of themselves that I see in them.” All of her characters exude a captivating power, like the whimsical and intangible figures seen through a psychedelic dream. By exploring alternative selves in familiar contexts – a convenience store, or the Californian seaside, for example – Fini explores how subjecthood is fluid, and how such creative “shape-shifting” can alter the way we perceive our immediate reality.