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Marianna Milhorat is an American-Canadian filmmaker and artist whose research-creation examines the power of cinema in relation to conservation ecology. Her work takes extended approaches to nonfiction film, pushing the form to provoke new ways of seeing and thinking in the current geologic era, making perceptible the entangled relationships between humans and their environments. Milhorat has presented her work at festivals and galleries worldwide, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, and the Whitechapel Gallery. Her current research-creation project, 'Multispecies Sensory Filmmaking: Imaging Microbial Worlds St. Lawrence Dead Zone' (2025 -), is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She has also received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her recent feature, 'Surface Earth (For Coming Extinction)' (2004), won the Documentary Feature Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Moving Creatures Award at the Mimesis Documentary Festival. Before her position at Concordia University, Milhorat taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, and the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Administered by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema; focuses on cinematic arts practice and research-creation.