Hello, I am MMM

Hello All,

I am a second year MFA student in the Moving Image department. This means: I am in the final and craziest semester of my educational career, so bouts of stressed-out muteness and streams of sleep deprived ?insight? are events that you are likely to witness over in my direction of the classroom. As for where I began... I grew up on a dead end road in Vermont surrounded by state land: my neighbors were beavers, bears, and the occasional moose who would mistake my father's makeshift ice skating rink as a drinking pool. (My father couldn't bare to break the rink down in the spring once he saw the frogs had already come and made it their home.) I moved out to Chicago from Montréal where I studied film as an undergraduate and spent a few years living on cheap rent and croissants. Luckily, I live next to a café run by French-trained bakers now, so a tasty pastry still occasions my life.

Right now, I am working to finish my thesis film which will be on exhibition in Gallery 400 during the first week of April (come!), as well as working on the written component which will be an artist's book of sorts- a collage of critical writings on my work, prose, storyboard sketches, photos, and meandering thoughts of which I have a great many. I make work that focuses around landscape as a site of loss and longing... yah know, like Spielberg and shit.

You can check out some excerpts of past work on my website: http://mariannamilhorat.com/ or vimeo account: http://vimeo.com/tenderbuttons.

I am excited about this class because, along with making films and videos, I have a great passion for the written word. Yep, a good sentence is a damn sexy thing.

Anywho,
That's all for now.

Yer fellow classmate,
mm