DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Quenton Miller

Quenton Miller (b. Naarm, 1981) is an Australian/UK filmmaker and artist based in the Netherlands since 2012. He studied at Van Eyck Academy and the Master of Artistic Research programme at KABK Den Haag, where his focus on film developed out of playfully disori- entating video installations, as well as writing and designing for literary publications. He usually makes comedic work, depicting alienated characters struggling with language, truth, time and history. His work looks at diverse experiences of language and dislocating experiences of the world, often repurposing documentary and realism with frameworks and modes of address from literature, sci-fi and comedy. “Although Quenton Miller’s work may seem ironic at times” one reviewer wrote “it is characterised by a romanticism and razor-sharp lightness.” Older works include The Trial (2021), a docufiction made with investigators at the International Criminal Court in the Hague looking towards Africa, Dying Marxists (2018) for the Athens Biennale, and The Confidence Man, His Masquerade (2015) an adaption of Herman Melville’s final novel of characters without bearings. He has shown work at IFFR, the Athens Biennale, the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and Apexart New York and published in the Believer and Guernica. With Aram Lee he co-founded When Site Lost the Plot, an art organization “dedicated to exploring the topography of site-specific identity through film and media” as well as the collective the Department of Speculative Facts, which looks at speculative approaches in documentary. “The more unreflective formats of documentary – especially nature documentaries no longer seem like a good orientation in the terminal time of the anthropocene. I try to merge documentary research with the literary side of art films, as well as pun- based comedies, aliens, anime, and the mind-bending word-image and space-time rela- tions from experimental comics and cartoons.”