Selected Filmography (not all films are listed, by no means complete) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
"Dismal Universal Hiss" 12 minutes 1988 16mm
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. In 1988 Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum listed this film as Critic's choice.
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago
San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival
The Film Center, Chicago
USA Film Festival, Dallas
NIU Gallery, Chicago
Chicago Filmmaker’s Showcase
Cinematheque, Montreal
Many other events. and screenings.
Some extracts featured on DVD release of short experimental films.
"Optical Surgery" 9 minutes 1987 16mm
A medical intervention on the viewer by means of cinema, Television test patterns, children playing chess, robotic experiments, an exploding house, steaming test tubes and other found footage create a frenzied collection manipulated by optical printer. ED
Awarded Gold Prize at the Onion City Film Festival, Chicago
San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival
Santa Fe Film Expo, New Mexico
Experimental Film Coalition, Chicago
Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco
Montreal World Film Festival
Many Others
"4xHorizontal, 4xVertical" 10 minutes 1986 16mm
At the end of an anonymous room, Francois Miron piles boxes against a wall film screen. The image projected on it quickly rush together: automobile accidents, Tuscan landscapes, an injured man, medical experiments intercut with smoking factories, a sleeping face. Miron moves the boxes about constantly, as if feeding a burning fire. ED
Awarded Best Experimental Film
Montreal World Film Festival (Student Section)
San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival
Experimental Film Showcase, Florence, Italy
Consevatoire D’Art Cinematographique, Montreal Cinematheque, Montreal
Other Cinema, San Francisco
Many Others