Curated by Etienne Desrosiers. This DVD compilation brings together thirteen films by iconoclastic filmmaker François Miron. Without belonging to any artistic school, Miron has forged a unique style, one that combines a great variety of techniques and materials: found footage, live action, animation, collage, scratches, and flicker. Like Paul Sharits, François Miron sees film as a laying bare of the drama of celluloid. This drama is not psychological, but that of the violence of spatial and temporal ruptures in the film material, an experience more sensorial than emotive. With Miron, this cinema takes form convulsively, out from the clash of two levels at work: the meaning of the images and the film sui generis. FILMS: 4 X HORIZONTAL 4 X VERTICAL (1985-86, 16mm, 9 min) CHIRURGIE OPTIQUE (1988, 16mm, 10 min) THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN (1989, 16mm, 4 min, silent) KICK THAT HABIT MAN (1989, 16mm, 3 min) WHAT IGNITES ME, EXTINGUISHES ME. (1990, 16mm, 9 min) THE SQUARE ROOT OF NEGATIVE THREE (1991, 16mm, 8 min) THE EVIL SURPRISE (1994, 16mm, 15 min) THE ULTRAWORLD (1997, 16mm, 17 min) LA POURSUITE DE L’ART (1999, 16mm,10 min) RESOLVING POWER (2001, 35mm, B&W, 18 min) HYMN TO PAN (2007, 16mm, B&W, 5 min) CREPITUS (2008, 16mm, B&W, 5 min) HYDROMORPHONE 8MG (2009, 16mm, 3 min) BONUS: DISMAL UNIVERSAL HISS (EXTRAITS · CLIPS) (1989, 16mm, 6 min) FILMS HAUTS-CONTRASTES · HIGH-CONTRAST FILM STRIP (1988-97, 5 min) Includes a 26-page booklet with illustrations and text in English and French.
