Stop action animation, paint and cutouts on canvas, 3'8"

Created and commisioned for Little Sun, Fast Forward short film series exploring a sustainable world.

Created Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program

For this project over 100 interviews were conducted in five destinations throughout Ethiopia; teachers, brokers, farmers, students, engineers, carpenters, soldiers, merchants, taxi drivers, cashiers, security guards, house wives, managers, nurses, designers, camera man, accountants, pharmacists, architects, mechanics, technicians, retirees, and more. Reflecting the interviewees' responses on the potential of a sustainable world, the project intends to instigate conversations and inspire action through imaginative discourse.

Interviews

Exhibtions/ Screenings

2026
"Possible World", Videodrame, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
“Ecorhizome Stories”, 3S ArtSpace, Portsmouth, NH

2025
“The silent fire. Territory, resistance and environmental crisis”, Casa
Africa, Las Palmas, Spain
“Animation in Bloom: Films of Ezra Wube”, FilmScene, Iowa City, IA

2024
Wa Na Wari, Seattle, WA
“Ezra Wube: Five Aninmations”, Yeh Art Gallery, Queens, NY
“HECare Film Festival, Ontario, Canada
“VÍANATUR Environmental Film Festival”, Valladolid, Spai

2023
"Faculty Show" Brooklyn College, NY
"Fast Forward Films", Ackland Museum, NC

2022
"Art Speaks Out" by IkonoTV
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago
The Ashton, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

2021
UNFCCC's Race to Zero Festival
The Climate Crisis Film Festival
TED Countdown, Edinburgh
"Possible World", Time Square Midnight Moment Program
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governors Island, NY