Michaela Müller

Michaela Müller was born in Switzerland. She graduated with an MA in Animation and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Müller’s acclaimed eight-minute film, "Miramare" (2009), made its international premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and has been shown at more than one hundred festivals. It has won eighteen awards, among them the Grand Prix at the Animation Festival Ljubljana, the Golden Centaur for Best Debut Film at Message to Man Film Festival in St. Petersburg, and the Swiss Film Prize Quartz. In 2012 Müller was invited as an artist in residence at Location One, New York, where she exhibited her animated installations "Transit" and "Conductivity". In 2012 she convened in Zagreb with dancer Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović and sound artist Fa Ventilato to launch the multimedia performance "Trag/Trace/Spur" at the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art. The project had a follow up in 2013 at the Student Centre Zagreb: "Up the Stairs, Behind Doors, Out the Window". In 2015 she contributed painted animations for the opera production Orlando. Her newest short animated film "Airport" has been released in 2017 and has a very successful festival distribution.