Filmmaker Selina Miles is the guest on this week’s episode of Benchtalk Podcast. Originally from Brisbane, Australia, and now using Sydney as her homebase, Selina joins host Tom Gerrard in a discussion about her career which started after stumbling upon a love for filmmaking by hanging out with graffiti writers in Brisbane.
They talk early days of editing videos for us here at Ironlak, and her lifestyle of cheaply travelling the globe, bouncing from country to country making videos – with no homebase, no responsibility, and no money. Selina explains her discovery of the hyperlapse technique which led to the ‘SOFLES – Infinite’ and ‘SOFLES – Limitless’ projects, and how she dealt with the stream of requests for replicating Limitless after the video went hugely viral.
They go through in-detail her other milestone projects such as artist portraits with Felipe Pantone and Guido Van Helton, 1UP Crew Graffiti Olympics drone video, and her latest project – ‘Martha: A Picture Story’, a feature-length documentary about photographer Martha Cooper which just launched in Australian cinemas.
They also find time to get into the negative impacts of social media, and Selina’s belief that failure and difficulty is a normal part of the process.
This is episode 140 of Benchtalk – a podcast that started three years ago to delve into the minds of artists and creatives to find out how they found success. We’re proud to be a sponsor of the show.
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