Gabriella Mykal is a West Indian American visual artist and filmmaker. Through film, video installation, writing, and sculpture, her work treats personal trauma as an access point to humor and social hyperreality. She combines narrative and experimental techniques to explore radical vulnerability, femme friendship, romance, and sexual dysfunction as grounds for political discourse. Found footage and unreliable narrators craft a vibrant, Cyberfeminist sensibility.
Mykal obtained her BFA in Visual Art from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 2020 and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2023, where her thesis film RAPE PLAY received the Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund Award.
Mykal’s recent work has been shown in and screened at 33 Girona Film Festival (Girona, ESP), Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest (Online), Photophobia Contemporary Moving Image Festival (Online), Bogotá Experimental Film Festival (Bogotá, CO), Sweet Pass Sculpture Park (Dallas, TX), 500X Gallery (Dallas, TX), The Museum of Color (Austin, TX), MicroActs Artist Film Festival (London, UK), Extremely Shorts Film Festival (Online), The San Diego Underground Film Festival (Online), That One Film Festival (Muncie, IN), Scopophilia Arts Festival (Amsterdam, NL) and The Tainted Love Film Festival hosted by the SMU Meadows Museum where her film, WHEN THE PARTY'S OVER, won the Tainted Love Venus Award.
  • Writer (13 Credits)
    Bathroom Attendant2024
    Short
    Rape Play2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Student
    Rape Play: A Selection2023
    Documentary, Experimental
    all i have pt iii2021
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
    all i have pt ii2020
    Experimental, Short
    cyborg stays home2020
    Experimental, Short, Student
    the pit2020
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
    all i have pt i2019
    Experimental, Short, Student
    CO(ck)XSWAINS2019
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
    CO(ck)XSWAINS PT I2019
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media, Other
    The Pigeon2019
    Experimental, Short, Student
    when the party's over2019
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
    The Other2018
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Director (13 Credits)
    Bathroom Attendant2024
    Short
    Rape Play2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Student
    Rape Play: A Selection2023
    Documentary, Experimental
    all i have pt iii2021
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
    all i have pt ii2020
    Experimental, Short
    cyborg stays home2020
    Experimental, Short, Student
    the pit2020
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
    all i have pt i2019
    Experimental, Short, Student
    CO(ck)XSWAINS2019
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
    CO(ck)XSWAINS PT I2019
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media, Other
    The Pigeon2019
    Experimental, Short, Student
    when the party's over2019
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
    The Other2018
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Producer (12 Credits)
    Rape Play2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Student
    Rape Play: A Selection2023
    Documentary, Experimental
    all i have pt iii2021
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
    all i have pt ii2020
    Experimental, Short
    cyborg stays home2020
    Experimental, Short, Student
    the pit2020
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
    all i have pt i2019
    Experimental, Short, Student
    CO(ck)XSWAINS2019
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
    CO(ck)XSWAINS PT I2019
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media, Other
    The Pigeon2019
    Experimental, Short, Student
    when the party's over2019
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
    The Other2018
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Acting (5 Credits)
    Rape Play2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Student
    Rape Play: A Selection2023
    Documentary, Experimental
    cyborg stays home2020
    Experimental, Short, Student
    the pit2020
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
    The Pigeon2019
    Experimental, Short, Student
Official Selection
all i have pt iii
33 Girona Film Festival
Girona
2021
Official Selection
all i have pt iii
Photophobia Contemporary Moving Image Festival
Hamilton, Ontario
2021
Official Selection
all i have pt iii
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival
Bogotá
2021
Official Selection
all i have pt iii
Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest
Buffalo, New York
2021
Official Selection
the pit
Extremely Shorts Film Festival
Houston, TX
2021
Official Selection
all i have pt i
Scopophilia Arts Festival
Amsterdam
2019
Tainted Love Venus Award for Fan Favourite
when the party's over
The Tainted Love Film Festival
Dallas, TX
College
Southern Methodist University
BFA in Visual Art; BS in Economics w/ Financial Applications
2016Present
College
California Institute of the Arts
Film/Video
20202023
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