Marianna Milhorat

filmmaker, artist, assistant professor

Montreal, CA

ecology nonfiction filmmaking anthropocene experimental
About

Marianna Milhorat is an American-Canadian filmmaker and artist based in Montréal. She has presented her work at festivals and galleries worldwide, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Whitechapel Gallery, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Kassel Dokfest, Videonale, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and Finlandia Foundation National.
 
Milhorat’s films examine ecology through human and nonhuman relations. Taking extended approaches to nonfiction film, her work pushes form and aesthetic to provoke new ways of seeing and thinking about the current geologic era and to create a more fluid, evolving picture of nature. She is Assistant Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal.

Films

Sky Room

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Une Terre Familière

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Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)

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