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mira seisembayeva

@maiwilles

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place. identity. representation.
head of creative @anorak_film

Art Camp: Vol 1. Release 💽🔗

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Inside look into my creative process 📕🔍

I always start my process with visual research for initial inspiration, keeping a few questions in mind:

🔸 What is the story and concept behind the record?
🔸 How can I translate it into an artwork and what
feeling do I want to convey?
🔸 What technique do I want to use and why?

Everything has a reason.

I decided to use photos that I took during our Art Camp, to keep and translate personal, intimate feelings of this unique experience.

🎨 I printed them, painted on top of them with acrylic paints and then scanned them. I love the DYI feeling of textures and colours that working by hand creates.

On top of digitalising normal painted photos, I also played around with the scanner to see what effects, glitches and even errors it can give me to further enhance the physical touch effect.

Afterwards, I gathered all of the files in one figma project to have a better overview of all of them.

One of my favourite steps is editing everything together! 🪄

Layering, masking, colouring, adding more details, textures, playing around, seeing what works and what doesn’t.

Back to figma for final touches:

🔹 Adding fonts and text.
🔹 Options options options and more options.
🔹 Seeing what works as a cover and what doesn’t.

4 versions made it to the final pre-selection that I did myself. After that I opened up the discussion for the Art Camp participants to decide on the final cover :)

Please, enjoy our release made with the pure joy for creativity!

On all musical platforms 🎶✨ taken in Berlin, Germany by @maiwilles

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FIGHT THE ALGORITHMS?!

And Respect the Witches 🤖

We still don’t know wtf is going on but we know we will do it again.

Some fun times together 🙂‍↕️

Edit: @maiwilles taken in Berlin, Germany by @maiwilles

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2 months ago

It’s out!🌙

A house in Brandenburg. Easter 2024.

No schedule. No pressure. Just friends, instruments, and whatever happened next.

Here are the six tracks that came out of our special time together.

Art Camp Vol. 1 is ready for you to hear via link in bio 🪄

Cover: @maiwilles taken in Berlin, Germany by @maiwilles

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3 months ago

Art Camp Vol.1 is almost ready to share: a collection of music, art and film made from urban disconnection and via a playful mindset - where everything is possible.

Coming up. 26.07.26 by @maiwilles

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4 months ago

25.08.25
1 year 🤍✨ taken in Berlin, Germany by @maiwilles

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2 months ago

It’s official — the screening date is set.

“Stone” will premiere at the Berlin Short Film Festival

🗓 August 9
🕗 20:00
📍 Babylon Kino, Berlin

A short film about a crane, a worm, and a stone.

We can’t wait to share it with you.

Poster by @b.ossabos

#stonefilm #berlinshortfilmfestival #babylonkino #berlinartscene #shortfilm #experimentalfilm #filmcommunity taken in BABYLON by @maiwilles

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a year ago

Introducing “Stone” - a short film about a crane, a worm, and a stone.

We’re honored to announce that “Stone” has been officially selected for the 2025 Berlin Short Film Festival screening August 9-10 at Babylon Kino.

Endless thanks to everyone who helped bring this idea into being.

More about this project here soon 🪨

CREDITS:

Directed by Mira Seisembayeva @maiwilles and Nico Serban @nicofiftyfour

DoP: @sebastianbeyrer

Produced by @maiwilles , @nicofiftyfour , @philpaluch

Music and Sound Design: @philpaluch

Edit: @nicofiftyfour

Colour Grading: @benpacker.xyz

Gaffer: @oiga_granada

Styling: @heavywindow

Animation: @irokkaa

Voice Over: @j11ly_beans, @sirnickalott , @djbalu92

1st AC: @arjincsahin
Styling Assistant: @francamarie

Poster Design: @b.ossabos
Credit Design: @maiwilles

Starring:
@mariegramssfranziska
@frederikvonluettichau
Venus the cat
Erna the dog
Union Fans
Hertha Fans
ChatGPT
@eness.c.vk
@nicofiftyfour
@gernweltfremd

Special Thanks to:
Anorak Film GmbH @anorak_film , Vantage Film @hawkanamorphic ,See You Rent @seeyourent ,Anima Berlin @anima.berlin , @thibaut_machet , Richard Stein, @laur0r ,@carmentrianaa , @julian__altenburg , @leo_hawtin

With support from @anorak_film taken in Berlin, Germany by @maiwilles

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a year ago

“Men who lack consciousness will even lie to themselves.”

Quotes and photos from @gabrielomoses exhibition at @180.studios (London, UK). taken in 180 the Strand by @maiwilles

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Art Camp: Vol.1

Setting: somewhere in Brandenburg, 1 and a half hours away from Berlin, an airbnb with a wooden terrace overlooking a small quiet lake with blossoming trees spread around it. Not all of the trees are awake yet from their deep winter slumber. On the right side of the house, 2 minute walk up the hill, are endless green fields that meet with the sky at the horizon. You hear constant buzzing and laughter from the house, from the lake, from the fields. Sometimes there is silence with an occasional brushstroke on canvas or flick of a lighter. Sometimes music overflows into every corner of the house with random pauses for adjustments. People sing, hum and rap. Moog Grandmother is mixed with Kazakh shan-kobyz and a bass guitar. Camera turns on and off. Tripod changes its place all the time, while projector becomes part of the process. Mics, long cables and SD cards. 2 girls are shoving their camera into everyone’s faces: more out of excitement, than boredom. The others are producing non-stop. Uninterrupted flow of inspiration, with delicious food in between. They escaped their daily lives to create for the sake of creation. But what they got out of it was a rare constellation of true friendship and a core memory for life.
💌 by @maiwilles

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2 years ago

few pages from the treatment I did for @dashxxmusic when I started to conceptualise and research visual identity for his debut album “Простая жизнь”.
📔🖊️ taken in Berlin, Germany by @maiwilles

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case study: DASHXX 📂

second collaboration with Dash this year turned out to be very fruitful and beautiful: I shot new snippets for him (scroll to see BTS + final results), came up with an entire Creative Direction for his debut album and crafted an Album cover for it 💽🖇️

working with real professionals is a blessing, but when you also deeply connect, share meaningful energies, silly laughs (keep swiping) and become true friends - that is rare. that’s where the magic really happens.

listen to the album. it’s worth your time.
🧾🔗✨

p.s: special shoutout to @xtima, who is a post-production magician. he opened my head, understood everything that is in there and delivered the exact
v i s i o n.
just wow. taken in Berlin, Germany by @maiwilles

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postcards from homeland 💌
sept-oct 2023 taken in Almaty, Kazakhstan by @maiwilles

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