Elissa Blount Moorhead is the founder and principal of Seven Stories, a production company creating film, television, and time-based installations. Her directing work includes As of A Now (an AR/film projection installation), Jay-Z’s 4:44, Back and Song (a four-channel installation), and Apologue for the Darkest Gods for PBS and Firelight Media.

She is the author of P Is for Pussy, an illustrated “children’s” book, and a featured essayist in "How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance." Her awards include Creative Capital, the Comedy Central–Sundance Award, Bellagio Residency, USA Artist Fellowship, The Baker Prize, Zaentz Innovation Award, Ford–Just Films Fellowship, Camargo’s Baldwin Fellowship, and Art Omi.

Blount Moorhead was a featured artist in Georgia State University’s Liquid Blackness. Her work has been reviewed in Black Cinema & Visual Culture and Art and Politics in the 21st Century, and in texts by Artel Great, Ed Guerrero, and Nam June Paik published by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. Her time-based film work was acquired by the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2022.

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FILM

Damon Davis: Apologue for the Darkest Gods

PROGRAM AFFILIATION

IN THE MAKING

COHORT YEAR

2020

WEBSITE

elissablountmoorhead.com

INSTAGRAM

@ebmoorhead