Miles McKane
Filmmaker
Miles McKane was born in 1957 in New Zealand and studied from 1976 to 1978 at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland. In 1979 he started to work as an artist, specializing in graphic works, sculpture and performance. As of 1984 he also began to make films, sometimes conceived as installations. Most of his works in cinema are research on the relation between nature and time, alternating 16mm film with Super 8.
Founder of Light Cone jointly with yann beauvais in 1982, McKane curated numerous film programmes for Scratch, this French cooperative’s venue for screenings. These include the cycles organized at the Cinémathèque Française and the Centre Georges Pompidou.
Update: 13 January 2025