Who Is Axda Mussa?

Axda Mussa is not simply a filmmaker. She is the glitch in the algorithm, the pause in the pattern, the shadow cast by two suns. Born of Ethiopian fire and Bulgarian frost, Axda is a rising creative force from South London whose voice defies containment—fragmented, feminine, feral, and free.

Raised between lands that mirrored none of her, she was often the only Black silhouette against a backdrop of white conformity in post-Soviet Bulgaria. But instead of fading in, she flared out. Alienation became ammunition. Invisibility turned into vision. She learned to speak in codes: colour, rhythm, movement, breath. Her life became a canvas where displacement met discovery.

Her work is not linear—it is layered, collaged, interrupted. Drawing from diasporic memory, surrealism, 90s R&B, radical Black futurism, and the surrealism of simply being, Axda's direction plays with polarity: softness in chaos, silence in noise, femininity in revolt. Whether she’s capturing a fleeting emotion on film or bending light through set design, her lens is a battleground and a sanctuary.

Axda’s cinematic language is born from the margins—written in whispers, screams, and everything in between. She crafts visual worlds where Black girls float, stare back, and write new myths. Through film, fashion, sound, and stillness, she reclaims authorship and dares others to do the same.

This is not just art. This is resistance disguised as beauty. This is Axda Mussa.