José Miguel Pires’s artworks blend together video and photography. In 2014, he directed his first long-feature documentary film, Suão, during an artistic workshop dedicated to video art.

Since then, he has dived into cinema, and showed some of his short-films at Shortcutz Vila Real. In 2019, he filmed the poem Poema Geológico, as well as Il Grande Ignoto, two contemporary musicals.