Ella Morton is a Canadian visual artist and filmmaker based between Toronto, Canada, and Marseille, France. Her expedition-based practice takes her to remote landscapes across Canada, Scandinavia, Latin America, Australia, Greenland, and Antarctica. Working primarily with experimental analogue processes, she captures the fragile beauty of these environments.

Ella holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design (New York) and an MFA from York University (Toronto). Her work has been exhibited internationally, with screenings at major film festivals like the Vancouver International Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2021, her project The Dissolving Landscape won the Environmental Award at Review Santa Fe, and in 2025, her project The Residue of Starlight won the Grand Prize at the Rotlicht Festival in Vienna. Her work has been featured in publications such as NPR Picture Show, Lenscratch, Analog Forever Magazine, and the British Journal of Photography. Ella’s practice is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and the National Film Board of Canada.