About

Known credits:
18
Birthday:
1962-09-20
Place of birth:
New York, New York
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François Miron

Overview

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.

Known for

Directing

2015 Paul Sharits Directing Director 58
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2009 Hydromorphone 8mg Directing Director N/A
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2008 The 4th Life Directing Director 59
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2008 Crepitus Directing Director N/A
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2007 Hymn To Pan Directing Director N/A
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2001 Resolving Power Directing Director N/A
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1999 La Poursuite de l'Art Directing Director N/A
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1997 The Ultraworld Directing Director N/A
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1996 Collapse I Directing Director N/A
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1994 The Evil Surprise Directing Director N/A
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1991 The Square Root of Negative Three Directing Director N/A
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1990 What Ignites Me, Extinguishes Me Directing Director N/A
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1989 The Gap in the Curtain Directing Director N/A
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1988 Dismal Universal Hiss Directing Director N/A
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1988 Kick That Habit Directing Director N/A
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1986 4x Horizontal, 4x Vertical Directing Director N/A
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1979 chirurgie optique Directing Director N/A
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Writing

2008 The 4th Life Writing Writer 59
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