FILMOGRAPHY
Beast Tests, 4K, 12 minutes, sound (in post-production)
Just Above the Surface of the Earth, 4K, 69 minutes, 5.1 sound, 2024
Natural Selections, 4K single-channel installation, 11 minutes, sound, 2019
Sky Room (for Chicago Film Archives), collaboration with Brian Kirkbride (sound), 16mm to DV found footage, sound, 2017
Singularities, 4K single-channel installation, 9 minutes, sound, 2016
Pure Surface, collaboration with Liz Mehl (text) and Leah Wilmoth (dance), HD video and live multimedia performance, sound, 2015
Teen Agents (for ACRE TV), collaboration with Michael Rae (sound) and Charity Coleman (text), HD & DV found footage, generative video webcast, sound, 2014
Always Alone (for Extinct Entities), HD & DV found footage, 5 minutes, sound, 2014
Landscaper Rap, HD, 2 minutes, sound, 2013
Une Terre familière, HD, 19 minutes, sound, 2012
Hair Flips, HD multichannel installation and 22-second single-channel loop, sound, 2012
Sing as We Go, 16mm, 6 minutes, sound, 2011
The City in Which (co-produced and curated by Christy LeMaster and Joshua Dumas), 16mm for collaborative expanded cine-poem performance, 2 minutes for ~30 minute performance, silent, 2011
Chicago Underground Film Festival Trailer, 16mm to DV, 1 minute, color, sound, 2011
L’Internationale, 16mm to DV, 10 minutes, color and b&w, sound, 2010
this is not an anchor, this boat is not an anchor, s16mm to HD, 11 minutes, color and b&w, sound, 2007

NON-DIRECTORIAL FILMOGRAPHY
Editor, Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago [dir. Rob Christopher], HD, 75 minutes, sound

SELECTED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
Retrospectives
Spectra Presents Marianna Milhorat, Anita B. Gorman Conservation Center, Kansas City, MO, September 2015
Marianna Milhorat: Notions of Space, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, October 2013
Marianna Milhorat: Notions of Space, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL, October 2013

Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, QC, November 2024
Gimme Some Truth Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB, November 2024
Cork International Film Festival, IRE, November 2024
Driftless Film Festival, Mineral Point, WI, November 2024 (Best Sound Design Award)
DOK Leipzig, GER, October-November 2024
Science New Wave Festival, NYC, October 2024
Green Film Festival of San Francisco, CA, October 2024
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, September 2024 (Documentary Feature Award & Closing Night Film)
Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO, August 2024 (Moving Creatures Award for Documentary Feature)
Dokufest, Prizren, KSV, August 2024
Festival ECRÃ, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, BR, June 2024

Sky Room
Live Soundtrack, Various European Locations, 2023
Suspaustas laikas, Vilnius, LT, July 2023
Process Festival, Noise Spectrum Frequencies, Riga, LATV, May 2023
Cosmic Rays: Look and Learn, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, January 2023
Cosmic Rays: Look and Learn, Mills Folly Microcinema, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI, December 2022
Fotogenia Film Poetry & Divergent Narratives Festival, FIFA, Mexico City, MX, November 2022
Cosmic Rays: Look and Learn, Union Docs, Queens, NY, October 2022
Revelation Film Festival, Perth, AU, July 2019
Videolands, MOMus- Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts, Thessaloniki, GR, April 2019
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Program, Rice University, Houston, TX, March 2019
Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC, February 2019
Nonplussed Fest, Los Angeles, CA, February 2019
Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Tampa, FL, February 2019
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Program, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, February 2019
Whitechapel Gallery, Disasters of Peace, London, ENG, November 2018
ULTRAcinema MX, Xalapa, MX, November 2018
BCK Film Symposium, Athens, GR, November 2018
Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Disasters of Peace, Buenos Aires, AR, November 2018
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Program, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, October 2018
Festival de Diseño Audivisual Experimental de Valdivia, CL, October 2018
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Lausanne, CH, October 2018
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, NY, October 2018
Nonplussed Fest, Desert Daze, Lake Perris, CA, October 2018
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, October 2018
Haverhill Film Festival, Haverhill, MA, October 2018
Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Galicia, ES, September 2018
Exposure, Kopernik Observatory & Science Center, Vestal, NY, September 2018
Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, SRB, August 2018
QFest, Houston, TX, July 2018
Video Art Miden, Kalamata, GR, July 2018
Sight Unseen, Baltimore, MD, June 2018
Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg, RU, June 2018
VideoEx, Zurich, CH, May 2018
Montréal Underground Film Festival, Montréal, QC, May 2018
CineAutopsia, Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá, Bogotá, CO, May 2018
Thinking Space, Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2018
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, May 2018
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, April 2018
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2018
Onion City Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL, March 2018
London Experimental, London, ENG, December 2017
Fovéa, Nice, FR, October 2017
Simultan, Timisoara, ROU, October 2017
Chicago Film Archives’ Media Mixer, Hideout Inn, Chicago, IL, June 2017

Pure Surface #13
Pure Surface #13: Liz Mehl / Leah Wilmoth / Marianna Milhorat, Valentine’s, Portland, OR, February 2015

Teen Agents
Snow is This, UWM Union Cinema, Milwaukee, WI, December 2022
Past Lives: Livestream on ACRETV.org, Union Docs, Queens, NY, November 2016
AutomataBahn, ACRETV.org, Livestream, December 20-26, 2014

Landscaper Rap
Farewell (for Now) Festival, The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, IL , April 2022
Rough and Ready, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, March 2014

Always Alone
Extinct Entities: Rehydrating the Randolph St. Experimental Film Coalition, Links Hall, Chicago, IL, January 2014

Une Terre familière
Psychological Architectures, Labocine, Online, Novemer 2017
There May Be No Before at All, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, The University of Memphis, TN, September-October 2017
Perto de La, Museu de Arte da Bahia, Salvador, BR, November 2015
Platforms- Chances Dances, Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL, October 2015
Lived Landscapes, Run of Life, Links Hall, Chicago, IL, September 2015
Artemovendo, Videonale Festival on Tour, Porto Alegre & São Paulo, BR, July 2015
ArtVilnius International Contemporary Art Fair, Videonale Festival on Tour, Vilnius, LT, June 2015
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Videonale Festival on Tour, Athens, GR, May 2015
Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE, February-April, 2015
Nature/Culture (nouvelles expérimentations), Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, QC, October 2014
Fabrica Utopia, Andros Island, ISO, July 2014
Festival Miden, Kalamata, GR, July 2014
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, May 2014
The Blazeing Familiar: Recent Film & Video from Chicago, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, ONT, February 2014
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL, September 2013
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, March 2013
Inner Midwestern: New Experimental Films from Chicago, Bioscope Cinema, Johannesburg, ZA, November 2012

Hair Flips
Summoning a New Queer Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, December 2013
The Dragon is the Frame, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, June-August 2012

Sing As We Go
Chicago Loves Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, August 2015
The Least Foreign Films, Doc Films, Chicago, IL, August 2013
Bienal de la Imágen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires, AR, October 2012
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, MB, September 2012
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, June 2012
Chicago Loves Iowa City, Public Space One, Iowa City, IO, December 2011

The City in Which
The City in Which, Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL, April 2011

L’Internationale
Best of Chicago Underground Film Festival, Online, July 2020
aCinema, Milwaukee, WI, February 2019
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, DE, November 2011
17 Hours of Darkness, Counterpath, Denver, CO, November 2011
Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, AU, July 2011
Signal and Noise Festival, Vancouver, BC, June 2011
L’institut pour la coordination et la propagation des cinémas exploratoires, Montréal, QC, May 2011
Tex Hex Pop Up Cinema: BELIEVERS & SURVIVORS, Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, May 2011
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, May 2011 (Honorable Mention)
Best of Chicago Underground Film Festival, Depaul University, Chicago, IL, April 2011
Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston, MA, March 2011
Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montréal, QC, February 2011
Galerie Articule, Montréal, QC, February 2011
Le Festival du nouveau cinema, Montréal, QC, October 2010
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, June 2010 (Best Experimental Film)

This is Not an Anchor, This Boat is Not an Anchor
Black Thorns in the Black Box, Grimposium, Montreal, QC, April 2014
System Operations, ZERO1 Biennial, Eli Ridgeway Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September-December 2012
Black Thorns in the Black Box, Artist’s Television Access, August 2012
Black Thorns in the Black Box, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, August 2012
Black Thorns in the Black Box, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY, May 2012
Black Thorns in the Black Box, The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, IL, March 2012
Black Thorns in the Black Box, FOLK, Kanasas City, KS, March 2012
The Road Ended at the Beach: Parsing the Escarpment Movement, Segal Centre, Montréal, QC, December 2011
25 FPS International Experimental Film Festival, Zagreb, KRO, September 2009
H20: Film on Water, Newport Mill Gallery, Newport, NH, August 2009 (3rd Place)
Signal and Noise Festival, Vancouver, BC, June 2009
Périphérie de la perception, Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines, Strasbourg, FR, February 2009
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NTL, January 2009
Fractured Frames, Selections from Images Festival, Club Saw, Ottawa, ONT, December 2008
Fractured Frames, Selections from Images Festival, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, October 2008
Who by Water, Who by Fire: New Experimental Cinema, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL, October 2008
Iowa City Experimental Film Festival, Iowa City, IA, October 2008 (Badass Flood of the Century Award)
EXIS, EX-Now, Seoul, ROK, September 2008 (Honorable Mention)
OFF, Oblo Film Festival, Lausanne, CH, September 2008
Montréal Underground Film Festival, Montréal, QC, May 2008
Images Festival, Toronto, ONT, April 2008 (Technicolor Cinematic Vision Award)
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2008
Boston Underground Film Festival, Cambridge, MA, March 2008
Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montréal, QC, February 2008
Le Festival du nouveau cinema, Montréal, QC, October 2007
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, August 2007
Mel Hoppenheim Film Festival, Montréal, QC, May 2007 (Mel Hoppenheim Award- Grand Prize)

APPOINTMENTS
2022-Current
Assistant Professor, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2019-2022
Assistant Professor (LTA), Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2016-2017
Adjunct Faculty, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
2015-2017
Lecturer, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013-2017
Adjunct Instructor, Digital Film and Video, Illinois Institute of Art- Chicago, Chicago, IL
2011-2012
Instructor of Record, Moving Image, University of Illinois- Chicago, Chicago, IL

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND MEMBERSHIPS
2022-Current
Member, Feminist Media Studio, Montréal, QC
Member and Co-Curator, Fabrique-Mondes, Research Group and Visiting Artist Series, Montréal, QC
2021-Current
Board of Directors, La Lumière collective, Montréal, QC
2018-2019
Programmer, La Lumière collective, Montréal, QC
2017-2019
Film Editor (Roy’s World, feature documentary), Chicago, IL
2015
Instructor, Experimental Animation, After School Matters, Chicago, IL
2013
Teaching Artist, Redmoon Theater, Chicago, IL
2012-2013
Teaching Artist, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Chicago, IL
2010
Teaching Assistant, Moving Image, University of Illinois- Chicago, Chicago, IL
2010-Current
Filmmaker, Production and Post-Production, Chicago, IL
2010
Mentor, Video Production, Renaissance Program, Twinfield Union School, Marshfield, Vermont

FUNDING, AWARDS, HONORS, AND RESIDENCIES
2020
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Creation Grant
2019
Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad Residencies Grant
National Film Board of Canada, Filmmaker Assistance Program, Montréal, QC
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Travel Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad Travel Grant
Serlachius Residency, Artist in Residence, Mänttä, Finland
2018
Finlandia Foundation National Grant, USA
2017
Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Independent Residency (awarded, deferred), Banff, AB
Juror, Chicago Underground Film Festival
Canada Council for the Arts, Research/Creation Grant
2016
Finlandia Foundation National Grant, USA
Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
Serlachius Residency, Artist in Residence, Mänttä, Finland
2013
8550 Ohio (Harold Arts), Artist in Residence, Chesterhill, OH
2012
Teaching Assistant Fellowship, University of Illinois-Chicago
2011
Teaching Assistant Fellowship, University of Illinois-Chicago
Honorable Mention, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
2010
Best Experimental Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival
Board of Trustees Award for Graduate Research, University of Illinois-Chicago
Navona Fellowship for Graduate Research, University of Illinois-Chicago
KRP Award for Graduate Research, University of Illinois-Chicago
2009
3rd Place, H20: Film on Water, Newport Mill Gallery
2008
Technicolor Cinematic Vision Award, Images Festival
Honorable Mention, EXIS
Badass Flood of the Century Award, Iowa City Experimental Film Festival
2007
Mel Hoppenheim Award (Grand Prize), Concordia University
Emerging Genre Award, Humboldt Film Festival

PRESS
2019
Kashmere, Brett. “Chemistry Class: Jeffrey Paull, the Escarpment School, and the Legacy of Process Cinema at Sheridan College.” [Book Chapter]. Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age, edited by Scott MacKenzie and Janine Marchessault, McGill-Queen’s University Press, July 2019, pp. 294-318.
2018
Smith, Michael.“See Two Experimental films about Chicago at the Onion City Film Festival.” [Review]. Time Out Chicago, March, 2018.
2016
Olson, Jenni. “Landscape Cinema Starter Kit.” MUBI Notebook Feature, 10 October 2016, mubi.com/notebook/posts/landscape-cinema-starter-kit. [Article]
Vestinerinen, Heikki. “Lumoavan Valon Vaikutus – The Enchanting Effect of Light.” [Article]. KMV- Leht, June, 2016.
2015
Alexiou, Von Konstantin. “Tierliebe im digitalin Dickicht.” [Article]. Neues Deutschland, 1 April 2015.
Langenbach, Tasja, ed. “The Call of the Wild.” [Exhibition Catalog]. Videonale, February, 2015
2014
Stigmart10 Art Review. [Interview]. Videofocus, August, 2014. <https://issuu.com/stigmart10press/docs/stigmart_videofocus_autumn_2014/22>.
2013
Sachs, Ben. “Notions of Space.” [Review]. The Chicago Reader, October, 2013.
Stocchetti, Beckie. “Notions of Space.” [Review]. Chicago Filmmakers, October, 2013.
2011
Jean, Marcel. “Courts métrages: Un millésime à conserver.” [Article]. 24 images (151), March-April 2011, pp. 45-46.
2010
Kashmere, Brett. “The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends: Parsing the “Escarpment School.” [Critical Essay]. Winnipeg Cinematheque, Nov., 2010.
2009
Turions, Cheyanne. “The Enduring.” [Critical Essay]. Cineworks Independent Filmmakers for Signal and Noise Festival, April, 2009. <http://www.signalandnoise.ca/festival/critical-writing/the-enduring/>.
2007
Goyette, Louis. “Le cinéma expérimental à l’École de cinéma Mel Hoppenheim: Les artilleurs de la tireuse optique.” [Article]. 24 images, October-November, 2007.

PUBLICATIONS
2018
“56th AAFF, Volume 11.” Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2018. DVD.
2017
Imagine Science Films. “Psychological Architectures.” [Online Video Publication]. Labocine, November, 2017.
2015
“Videonale.15 Festival for Contemporary Art, Volume 2.” Videonale Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2015. DVD.
Milhorat, Marianna. “Ringed Pheasant” and “Ringed  Pheasant Being Skinned”. City Creatures. University of Chicago Press, Spring, 2015. 159, 161. Print.
2007
“Transformer Chainletter.” Joanie 4 Jackie, 2007. DVD.

DISTRIBUTION
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center: http://cfmdc.org/

EDUCATION
2012
MFA in Moving Image, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL (08/2010-05/2012)
2007
BFA with Great Distinction, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinéma, Concordia University, Montréal, QC (09/2003-05/2007)
2002
Studies for BFA in Electronic Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (08/2001-06/2002)