JOEY BANIA

Film, Science Communication + Environmental Advocacy

Wander Alone (2025) - Documentary - Director + Editor

A Forthcoming documentary about the last two living Northern White Rhinos. Wander Alone explores the politics, psychology and biology of individual and collective loneliness, offering a novel perspective on the the looming spectre of mass extinction.

Mirelight (2024) - Short Film - Director, Editor + Director of Photography

Mirelight is an environmental allegory set amid the vast carbon sinks of Estonia’s Soomaa Bog.
The film blends natural history, science-fiction and folklore into a  story of evolution, extraction and assimilation, prodding the illusory boundaries between the human and natural world. The film was on display at the Estonian National Museum in September 2024.

Sanctum Sanctorum (2024) - Video Installation - Director + Director of Photography

A companion piece to the film ‘Mirelight’ which reconstructs the film across three large LED panels, reorienting the narrative into a swirling abstraction of nature documentation and arcane symbolism. This work was on display in the main foyer of the Estonian National Musem during UNDA festival 2024.

A visual accompaniment to a series of live performances by saxaphone and synth duo Gleo. Using macro lenses to capture strange unions of organic and synthetic matter, the film transforms tiny worlds into kinetic Rorschach tests, documenting and dramatising the hidden consequences of our everyday material and chemical footprints. 


Oceanic Feeling - VR Documentary - 2022 - Director, Editor + Director of Photography

Oceanic Feeling is a VR 360° exploration of the curious historical connections between the critically endangered European Eel, 20th century psychoanalysis, and our pathological relationship with the more-than-human world. This project was selected for development during CPH:LAB 2022.

Manuscripts of Foreign Bodies - Documentary - 2021 - Director of Photography

Manuscripts of Foreign Bodies is a critical visual collective workshop-based project by artist Ahmad BaBa and filmmaker Michalina Mrozek, situating TLGBQIA+ bodies of color as manuscripts of duality; sites of both oppression and resilience.




Skyjuice (2018) Short Documentary - Director, Editor + Director of Photography 
Skyjuice tells the story of St Lucia-born, London-raised Joseph “Juicy” Nicholas. In one of London’s fastest changing boroughs he’s an unlikely social hub, serving traditional shaved ice with a heavy side of anecdote.






Lost & Found (2013) Short Documentary - Director, Editor + Director of Photography

Lost & Found invites on a journey to the sparesely populated and densely forested near-wilderness of New Zealand’s deep south, to visit the wondrous realm of artist, inventor and self-confessed tinkerer Blair Somerville.




A Delicate Canvas (2011) Short Documentary - Director, Editor + Director of Photography

For nearly twenty years Martin Hill has fashioned art from the mountains, valleys, rivers and lakes of New Zealand’s South Island. Using materials found on site he builds fleeting sculptures which endure only in photographic form.  In 2011 Hill set about creating a series of works to be exhibited in the Spring at his first ever solo exhibition. A Delicate Canvas recounts his journey in vivid detail and paints an honest portrait of a man, his art and his fragile medium.