Mila Puccini is a Swiss/American Gaffer and Artist based in Detroit, MI, with a background in film, performance art and education.
After obtaining teaching credentials in Switzerland in 2001, she relocated to Oslo, Norway, to engage in collaborative work with art collectives such as as Hotel ProForma, Ohm41 and Akt 5, which she contributed to with experimental music, video and performance art.
She was awarded two work grants by the Norwegian Art Council, and completed a two-month residency at BAb3lAb Gallery in Oakland which culminated in the performance "Re:organism".
In 2009, she relocated to San Francisco, CA, where she pursued a BA in Film and wrote and directed her first narrative short "Let's Go Crazy First" in 2014, which was screened at Artist's Television Access in San Francisco, and co-directed the full-length documentary "Water Under the Bridge", which premiered at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco in 2015.
Since then, she has been working in San Francisco and Detroit in the Grip & Electric Department and primarily functions as Gaffer.
Her union affiliation is with IATSE local 16.
(photo by César Echeverria Barojas)
After obtaining teaching credentials in Switzerland in 2001, she relocated to Oslo, Norway, to engage in collaborative work with art collectives such as as Hotel ProForma, Ohm41 and Akt 5, which she contributed to with experimental music, video and performance art.
She was awarded two work grants by the Norwegian Art Council, and completed a two-month residency at BAb3lAb Gallery in Oakland which culminated in the performance "Re:organism".
In 2009, she relocated to San Francisco, CA, where she pursued a BA in Film and wrote and directed her first narrative short "Let's Go Crazy First" in 2014, which was screened at Artist's Television Access in San Francisco, and co-directed the full-length documentary "Water Under the Bridge", which premiered at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco in 2015.
Since then, she has been working in San Francisco and Detroit in the Grip & Electric Department and primarily functions as Gaffer.
Her union affiliation is with IATSE local 16.
(photo by César Echeverria Barojas)
