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, DOK Leipzig, Whitechapel Gallery, Cork International Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, DokuFest, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. 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.
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Duration: 2h18A poetic portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation, _Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)_ reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. This debut nonfiction feature examines scientists and citizen scientists who conduct surveys of frogs, which serve as an indicator species; study sea stars threatened by disease; track ...
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Duration: 2h18A poetic portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation, _Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)_ reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. This debut nonfiction feature examines scientists and citizen scientists who conduct surveys of frogs, which serve as an indicator species; study sea stars threatened by disease; track ...