Sky Room

Someone is missing. Plants grow, but at what cost? Technology threatens and seduces as humans attempt to solve a mystery through telepathy and mirrors. Stainless steel and broken glass strewn about an intergalactic discotheque.

Commissioned by the Chicago Film Archives and made in collaboration with sound artist Brian Kirkbride, with footage and sound from the archive chopped, manipulated and arpeggiated into a fertile mix of anthem and narrative.

  • Marianna Milhorat
    Director
  • Brian Kirkbride
    Sound
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Found Footage
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    250 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm, 35mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Chicago Film Archives Media Mixer
    Chicago
    United States
    June 1, 2017
    World
  • Simultan
    Timisoara
    Romania
    October 6, 2017
  • Onion City Film Festival
    Chicago
    United States
    March 8, 2018
  • Ann Arbor Film Festival
    Ann Arbor
    United States
    March 20, 2018
  • Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
    Hawick, Scotland
    United Kingdom
    May 2, 2018
  • Montreal Underground Film Festival
    Montreal
    Canada
    May 1, 2018
  • Kinodot Experimental Film Festival

    Russian Federation
    June 1, 2018
  • Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

    Canada
    April 1, 2018
  • Fovéa
    Nice
    France
    October 1, 2017
  • Sight Unseen
    Baltimore
    United States
  • Video Art Miden
    Kalamata
    Greece
    July 1, 2018
  • QFEST
    Houston
    United States
    July 1, 2018
  • VideoEx
    Zurich
    Switzerland
    May 1, 2018
  • Experimental Superstars
    Novi Sad
    Serbia
    August 1, 2018
  • Exposure, Kopernik Observatory & Science Center
    Vestal
    United States
    September 1, 2018
  • Curtocircuíto International Film Festival
    Galicia
    Spain
    September 1, 2018
  • Haverhill Film Festival
    Haverhill, MA
    United States
    October 1, 2018
  • Antimatter Film Festival
    Victoria
    Canada
    October 1, 2018
  • Imagine Science Film Festival
    New York, NY
    United States
    September 1, 2018
  • Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival
    Lausanne
    Switzerland
    October 1, 2018
  • Festival de Diseño Audivisual Experimental de Valdivia
    Valdiva
    Chile
    October 1, 2018
  • Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    November 1, 2018
  • Whitechapel Gallery
    London
    United Kingdom
    November 29, 2018
  • Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
    Tampa
    United States
  • Nonplussed Fest
    Los Angeles
  • Cosmic Rays Film Festival
    Chapel Hill, NC
  • Videolands, MOMus- Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
  • Revelation Film Festival
    Perth
    Australia
  • Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Program
    Various
    United States
Distribution Information
  • Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
    Country: Canada
Director Biography - Marianna Milhorat

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 National Film Board of Canada, Finlandia Foundation National, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

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 currently in post-production on her debut feature, Nightwatchers, a creative non-fiction film tracking the state of contemporary wildlife conservation through scientists and citizen scientists involved in nocturnal wildlife monitoring efforts. She is Assistant Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal.

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