Franklin Miller

Franklin MILLER has been making films since 1961 and is credited in over 100 titles. He began his film education in 1962, attending the Studio Art programme of the Oberlin College, while continuing to study sculpture at the Ohio State University before finally studying film production at the Ohio University in 1969. Miller’s work has appeared on TV channels CBS, NBC and WTTW. His short films have shown around the world at the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn and Guggenheim Museum, Theater Vangarde, the National Film Board of Canada, the American Center in Paris and Pacific Film Archives. Two of his early films were screened at the Cinematheque Francaise in 2003.

Filmography

(selection) Spring Night, Summer Night (1967), Inside and Outside (1969, doc), Pictures of the City (1969, short), Conversation Piece (1970, instal), Entry (1970, short), Movements (1970, instal), Whose Circumference Is Nowhere (1970, short), Picnic (1971, instal), Correspondence (1971, perf), White (1971, short, co-dir), Rotate (1971, instal, co-dir), Documentary (1971, instal), Deafman Glance Film (1971), Stores (1973, short), Forest (1973, short), Ekstasis (1975, short, co-dir), Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (1976, short), The Sum of Perfection (1977, short), Cold Cows (1977, short), Still-Life With Fruit (1978, short), Refractory Atmosphere (1979, short), The Natural Order (1980, short), Bird/Flight (1980, short), Landscape/Sky (1980, short), Selma Jam (1982, doc), Macbeth: Confronting the Text (1984, doc), Agrippina: Iowa in Italy (1986, doc), Sky/Forest (1989, short), While You Were Out (1990, short), Begin Here (1991, short), Changing Trains (1991, short), High Noon (1992, short), Caught in the Gaze of Science (1992, short), Coming and Going (1993, short), Crossing the Street (1994, short), Gravity (1995, short), Right Where You Left It (1999, instal), Last Dance (2002, short), Dexterity (2003, short), Movement Is Life (2005, short)