Back to the Big Screen Special Event: 2024-2025 Filmmaker-in-Residence Hunter Whitaker-Morrow ’13

Join Back to the Big Screen as we welcome Poly’s 2024-2025 Filmmaker-in-Residence, alum Hunter Whitaker-Morrow ’13 who will be showing his recent video works in Garland Theater. As part of his residence, Whitaker-Morrow has been on campus both semesters visiting classes, hosting workshops, and offering critiques to film students.

Hunter Whitaker-Morrow is an artist who works in modes of audio-visual performance, video installation, and experimental documentary.

His work, both structuralist and conceptual, centers on an exploration of the moving image as socio-historical text and the potentialities of audio-visual constructions to serve as instruments of liberation. Informed by his academic background in sociology & film theory in concert with a breadth of experience working in the television industry, Whitaker-Morrow investigates the physical, technological, social, and political dimensions of audio-visual encounters with a particular focus on Black experience and cultural formations within the context of the United States.

Whitaker-Morrow holds an MFA with a concentration in Film, Video, and New Media from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and a dual BA in Film and Media Studies and Sociology from Amherst College.