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Film Screenings: Esha Chiocchio and Ella Morton
Sep 19, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Bringing light to the impact of climate change.
Location: TCVA Lecture Hall
Cost: FREE
Esha Chiocchio – Good Earth Series:
The Good Earth video series features New Mexican agrarians who are revitalizing land through regenerative practices—building soil, sequestering carbon, reducing toxins, and improving the health of people, plants and animals. Multi-media artist Esha Chiocchio collaborated with audio producer Mary-Charlotte Domandi and editor Madison McClintock to showcase the important work of our fellow New Mexicans. The series was funded by a grant from the New Mexico Department of Agriculture Healthy Soil Program.
Ella Morton – Three short films:
The Great Kind Mystery Inuk and Mi’kmaw artist Amy Hull tells stories about growing up in Newfoundland. Her words are illustrated by altered Super 8mm footage of Newfoundland landscapes, where the distortion of the celluloid film reflects the complexity of her relationship with the land.
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun (2020) is a short experimental film about the Svalbard Archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. Narrated by wilderness guide Marte Agneberg Dahl, the film features altered Super 8mm film footage of the region. Marte speaks about her travels in the Arctic, climate change, walruses and the region’s history.
Kajanaqtuq Kajanaqtuq (2020) is a short experimental film that features the voice of Inuk elder Naulaq LeDrew. She speaks about her home in Nunavut, Canada and how Inuit lifestyles have changed since her youth. Altered Super 8mm film footage of the region illustrates her account of historical events and Inuit mythology.
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About the Artists
Esha Chiocchio, winner of CENTER’s 2022 Environmental Award, is a photographer and filmmaker who uses her combined knowledge of visual storytelling and sustainable communities to inspire social change. As an optimistic realist, she focuses on solutions to social and environmental challenges. Her current project, Good Earth, celebrates agrarians from diverse sectors who are revitalizing land through regenerative practices. She has photographed around the world for publications, non-profits, and commercial clients, including National Geographic, High Country News, Jardins du Monde, and Bonefish Grill. Esha teaches photography to high school students on four continents with the Fredric Roberts Photography Workshops and to adults through the Santa Fe Workshops. She has BAs in Anthropology and French from the University of Colorado, an MA in Sustainable Communities from Goddard College, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa.
Ella Morton, winner of CENTER’s 2021 Environmental Award, is a Canadian visual artist and filmmaker living in Tkarón:to/Toronto, on the land of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenoshaunee and the Wendat peoples. Her expedition-based practice has brought her to residencies and projects across Canada, Scandinavia, and Antarctica. Working primarily with lens-based media, she uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes. Reflecting on how the medium of photography is changing in the digital age, she aims to uncover how photographs can show more than a straightforward depiction of reality, and how the alchemy of analogue techniques can be reinvented in the present day to tell deeper stories within images.
Morton earned a BFA from Parsons School of Design (New York) in 2008 and an MFA from York University (Toronto) in 2015. She has exhibited her work internationally, including shows at Lonsdale Gallery (Toronto), Foley Gallery (New York), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins), Contemporary Calgary (Calgary), Galérie AVE (Montréal), Viewpoint Gallery (Halifax), Photographic Center Northwest (Seacle), the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Kelowna) and Hanstholm Art Space (Denmark).
Her work has been featured in Contact Photography Festival (Toronto), Exposure Photography Festival (Calgary), the Antimatter Media Art Festival (Victoria) and the Arctic Film Festival (Norway), among others. Her work has been published in the NPR Picture Show, Analog Forever Magazine, Lenscratch, Lomography Magazine, Becer Photography Magazine, the Toronto Star and the British Journal of Photography. Her practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the National Film Board of Canada.
