About Michèle Saint-Michel

Michèle Saint-Michel is a Brooklyn-based creative director, experiential producer, and cultural programmer working across film, exhibition-making, and editorial projects in New York, London, and international contexts.

She leads projects end to end, from the first conversation to the final delivery. Her experience spans:

• moving-image campaigns and short-form video

• live and hybrid events

• exhibitions and installations

• artist books, zines, and multi-author publications

Her programming work at Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn includes multi-artist exhibitions and film programs that combine performance, installation, and expanded cinema. This curatorial practice directly informs how she approaches commercial and institutional work, bringing a sense of narrative, rhythm, and atmosphere into brand and audience experiences.

As founder of Bad Saturn, an independent press and media studio, she has produced art books, time-based media projects, and collaborative editions. This has sharpened her capacity for creative strategy, content development, and building systems that scale beyond a single campaign.

Across everything, she focuses on how stories move through space, time, and people. She treats each project as both an artwork and a system: something that has to land emotionally and also function operationally.

She is available for creative direction, experiential production, and integrated campaign consulting in New York, Los Angeles, and London, and she often works remotely with international teams.

What I Do

Experiential & Event Production

I produce exhibitions, screenings, and live programs that feel intentional from the invite to the exit.
Support can include:

• concept development and creative framing

• venue collaboration and technical planning

• production management and showcalling

• artist and talent coordination

• documentation strategies for press and social

Film, Moving Image, and Content Direction

I work with brands, agencies, and institutions on moving-image projects that sit between art and communication.
This can look like:

• directing or co-directing short films and campaign pieces

• creative direction for fashion, editorial, and cultural content

• assembling and leading production teams

• guiding post-production, sound, and delivery for multi-platform use

Publishing & Editorial Projects

Through Bad Saturn and in partnership with other publishers, I develop and produce books and editorial projects that extend the life of exhibitions and films.
This includes:

• artist books and exhibition publications

• essays, interviews, and commissioned writing

• editorial direction and copy shaping

• production management for print and digital editions

Cultural Strategy & Programming

I help institutions and studios shape programs that feel coherent and alive.
This may involve:

• program design for festivals, retrospectives, and series

• building thematic frameworks and curatorial arcs

• aligning programming with institutional values and audience goals

• consulting on how film, performance, and publishing can work together

How I Work

I design experiences that linger in the body. I often start with small things: an image, a sentence, a fragment of sound. From there I build worlds across film, performance, installation, and print.

Production, for me, is not separate from the art. It is the choreography that lets the work arrive in the right way. Budgets, timelines, and teams are not just constraints, they are materials. I pay close attention to how people will enter a space, how they will move through it, what stays with them afterward.

Whether I am:

• producing a multi-market campaign,

• building a screening and performance program, or

• carrying a book from idea to object,

I hold the creative thread through complexity. The goal is to protect the integrity of the work while making sure it actually gets made, on time, in reality.

Roles I Often Take On

• Creative Director / Experiential Producer
  Leading concept, look and feel, and production for film, events, and hybrid experiences.

• Editorial Lead & Writer
  Commissioning, editing, and writing criticism, essays, and interviews around experimental film and moving-image culture.

• Integrated Production Lead
  Managing cross-functional teams across film, photography, publishing, and live programming.

• Cultural Programmer
  Shaping film programs, exhibitions, and performance series that invite audiences into deeper, stranger, more embodied experiences.

• Systems Architect
  Designing workflows, budgets, and production frameworks that make complex cultural work repeatable and sustainable.

• Mentor & Collaborator
  Supporting artists, writers, and teams to clarify their ideas and bring them to the surface in a way that feels true.

Let’s Connect

For collaborations, commissions, or consulting: