Filmography: "The Quest" 1999
"The Quest" 16mm. Color. 9 minutes. 1999
Experimental film about making experimental films, the process is the film, the film is the process, the two are the same. Complex color separation techniques are use to create the images of that film with a 60's psychedelic aesthetic and groovy music by Reuben Wilson. Get hip to it. Alternate title :" La Poursuite De L'Art" , a French version of this film exist. Key festivals include: Montreal Festival Of New Cinema And New Media, Ann Arbor Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video,.Humboldt International Film Festival, Hamburg International ShortFilm Festival. Regensburg Germany. Several others.
"...In "The Quest" Montrealer François Miron spins an acid-jazzy self-refective take on the art of filmmaking, using old school celluloid manipulation ( no digital trickery) to make both his editing process and his Kraft Dinner cooking look remarkably - and psychedelicaly - like at DJ at play." David Leach, Monday Magazine, BC.
This film was made possible by The Canada Council and The National Film Board ACIC Program.