Brielle Brilliant
PAVLI SERENETSKY fka "Brielle Brilliant" (they/them) is an artist, environmentalist, and educator who makes films, books, and other place-focused experiences. Their feature-length films include the soon-to-be-released More Beautiful Perversions (2025) and Firstness, which was the recipient of The Grand Jury Prize at Outfest 2021, nationally distributed by Gravitas Ventures, and screened at MoMA. They are the author of The Spud (Featherproof Books) and The Curtsy Family (Thoughtcrime Press), which received The Lorien Book Prize in 2018. Both books center queer, alienated youth, inspired by Pavli's own (and now reformed) teenage nihilism. Pavli has been making films and developing artful experiments for over a decade, starting with their first apprenticeship with the historic artist-run Film-Makers Cooperative in New York, where Pavli was born and raised. In 2022, they co-founded the mutual aid collective Purpose Repair Shop. They have a BA in Philosophy from Colorado College and a MFA from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago. They also currently work as an Environmental Educator at The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains, where they guide youth and adults through educational experiences in wildlife restoration sites. Pavli prefers to spend most of their time walking and filming old trees on 16mm.
