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François Miron (born 1962) is a French-Canadian experimental filmmaker also working in documentary and fiction. He obtained a BFA from Concordia University in 1987 and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990 (he received a full merit scholarship).
Miron started making Super-8 Collage films in 1982, inspired by the cut-up technique William S. Burroughs, soon shifting to 16mm and 35mm. His early body of work consists of found footage manipulation through optical printing and abstract cinematography of industrial landscapes. His abstract work has lately been shifting into more "traditional" narrative cinema and documentary, although a strong psychedelic and surreal influence still is present. Miron still makes short experimental films while working on his feature films or in between them. Most of his films have been exhibited worldwide and have won several awards.
His early films are in the tradition of Pat O'Neill who was the pioneer of experimental optical printing films in the 1960s and 1970s and is still active to this day. Other links have been made to Paul Sharits, Stan Brakhage, Norman McLaren and in painting to Jackson Pollock.
Since 1993, François Miron has been teaching at The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, where he created a legendary optical printing course, many students were exposed to this art form for the first time and had their artistic vision completely changed and became somewhat notable "experimental filmmakers" themselves (or so they think).
With the rise of new technologies and the near-death of celluloid-based film, after a nearly 20-year run, the course disappeared in 2012.
Miron is still very active as a teacher, teaching basic filmmaking and also advanced cinematography among other courses.
Most Popular François Miron Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
01 January 1989
Very short sequences of geometrically-shaped colourful film images file past ultra-fast fashion to produce an intense stroboscopic flickering effect.
01 January 1999
A visual search using traditional methods of optical transformation of images around the movement and the quest of an artist.
01 January 2009
Experimental film by François Miron.
01 January 2001
In an abandoned power plant, a paranoiac electrician dreams he discovers a piece of shapeless flesh in a jar.
01 January 1997
Landscape film, The Ultraworld (1997) marks a certain break. The artist demonstrates the ability of the film device
to transform the perception of a reality.
01 January 1991
An ad for the famous Ka-bala Ouija board by Transogram (1966), the first game to glow in the dark, opens a powerful barrage of optical effects in which Lysol disinfectant, the silence of stones and the hope of angry children intermingle with scientific ravings.
23 November 1990
Experimental film by François Miron.
01 January 2007
A dancer’s routine is fragmented by the filmmaker and his Bolex camera. A tense duel takes place between the catcher of motions and his muse, their movements tracing fleeting moments which create an elegant symbiosis of two lovers united by the cinematograph.
01 January 1996
Series of installation films used for multi-projection showing including architectural projections, some of those films also in 35mm.
01 January 1994
In the form of a playful conspiracy, ten pseudo-educational sequences deconstruct film techniques and medical teleology An unbridled recycling of archival films explodes the stereoypes of mass culture, contaminated by a shapeless and frenzied gangrene.
01 January 2008
The title refers to two eponymous words. The first describes the pathological symptom of abnormal contact between two internal surfaces, such as broken bones.
01 January 1988
Originally a double screen film the titles comes from a book by W.Grey Walter: "The Living Brain", the book is mostly about flicker and stroboscopic response.
01 January 1986
In a room, François Miron piles boxes against a wall film screen. The images projected on it quickly rush together:automobile accidents, Tuscan landscapes, an injured man, medical experiments intercut with smoking factories, a sleeping face.
22 January 2015
Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering, pulsating, colourful mosaics.
11 July 2008
In this surreal thriller, mysterious blond Marie March takes a journey to the town of Darckeville to scam a priceless set of antiques from an eccentric collector, but also to get away from the clutches of her overbearing older husband.
01 January 1988
A permutation poem by Dream Machine artist Brion Gysin is recited by Monte Cazazza. Each word is linked to an image.
01 January 1987
Awarded Gold Prize at the Onion City Film Festival, Chicago.
