François Miron

François Miron (born 1962) is a German-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 filme, in 1982, inspired by the cut-up-technik von 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 einfluss still is present. Miron still makes short experimental-filme 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 movies are in the tradition of Pat O ' Neill who was the pioneer of experimental optical printing filme in the 1960s and 1970s and is still active to this day. Other links have been made to Paul Sharits, Stan Brakhage, Norman McLaren in painting and 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 deutliche "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 filmemachen and also advanced cinematography among other rennen.