Mia Engberg

Mia Engberg is a filmmaker and a researcher at the Stockholm University of the Arts Her research project The Visual Silences explores methods and aesthetics of a non-voyeurist cinema. .
Sweden °1970
research interests: Silence, darkness, cinema, feminism, punk rock, buddhism
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Mia Engberg is a filmmaker and researcher based in Stockholm. She has written, directed and produced a number of films ranging from short documentaries about gay skinheads and straight edge vegans to poetic feature films exploring autofiction and the notion of time and passion. She was the curator and producer of Dirty Diaries – 12 shorts of feminist porn, an art project exploring the female gaze and queer identities. Engberg is currently working on a trilogy of feature films exploring the visual silence aesthetics; a cinematic language approaching silence and darkness. Belleville Baby, the first film in the trilogy, premiered at the Berlinale 2013 and received a number of awards among others the Guldbagge award. The second film, Lucky One, was awarded with the Eurimages Audentia Award 2019. 

 

Mia Engberg is currently a PhD student at the Stockholm Uniarts where she has been researching the visual silence with support from Vetenskapsrådet.  

The third part of the project has the title Darkness as material and will be completed 2022. 

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  • The Visual Silence (2020) author(s): Mia Engberg published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
    The Visual Silence explores a cinematic aesthetic that approaches silence and darkness and challenges the voyeuristic tradition of cinema. It is a cinematic form that is situated in the gap between what is projected and what is perceived, between the impression of the ear and that of the eye. The Visual Silence examines the possibility of new perspectives through the deconstruction of the image and also through a critical examination of patriarchal, excluding and exhausting methods in the traditions of filmmaking. The research project resulted in the feature film Lucky One that premiered 2019.
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  • Darkness as material - PhD project - 2023 (2023) author(s): Mia Engberg published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
    The doctoral project Darkness as Material, examines darkness as material and its relationship to cinematic storytelling. The study addresses different kinds of darkness: darkness in the image, darkness in the cinema theatre, darkness in the spectator where films are received and the darkness in the filmmaker, where the world is reflected and ideas are born. The project is inspired by Marguerite Duras' idea to kill cinema, and it explores film's potential to approach the place she described as 'the dark room, where we are deaf and blind and passion is possible'.
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