Bio

Scott Miller Berry is a filmmaker and cultural worker who lives in Toronto. By day he is Managing Director at Workman Arts, an arts + mental health organization.  Previously he was Director for ten years at the Images Festival. Recipient of the 2015 Rita Davies Margo Bindhardt Award for cultural service in Toronto, he sits on the Boards of MANO (Media Arts Network of Ontario) and the new collective publication MICE Magazine. Most of his films are shot on 16mm and/or Super 8 film and address themes of mortality, grief, memory and collective histories and sometimes are processed by hand. His film ars memorativa screened in competition at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival after debuting at Experimenta India in Bangalore. Other recent screenings include Seoul, Zagreb, Vienna, Regina, Calgary, Montreal and a fall 2015 solo screening in Toronto.

Works

gay shame '98

  • 2020
  • Scott Miller Berry

"gay shame '98" is a lo-fi document of an event of the same name that took place at dumba, a queer collectively run arts space in Brooklyn.

"gay shame '98", Scott Miller Berry, 1998, CFMDC

untitled (eleven years)

  • 2016
  • Scott Miller Berry

A posthumous coming out film diary to my mom. Shot October 11, 1988, Bethel Memorial Park, Detroit.

untitled (eleven years)

you rub me the wrong way

  • 2015
  • Scott Miller Berry

you rub me the wrong way was created as part of SOUND + VISION TORONTO produced by Basement Arts. This project paired 5 local filmmakers with 5 local bands/musicians and 1 local neighborhood. I was asked to interpret and adapt a song by the potent forces behind post-punk band Pants & Tie in Toronto’s dynamic Kensington Market.

you rub me the wrong way

fagtactics

  • 2015
  • Scott Miller Berry

“fagtactics” is an homage to Barbara Hammer's splendid and sexy “Dyketactics” and begs the question: so what ARE those faggots doing on the train tracks?

fagtactics

taking pictures

  • 2015
  • Scott Miller Berry, Adam Segal

A hand-processed diary film about memory, family and loss told through snapshots and landscapes in and around Ontario. Music by Sam Phillips. Screenings include: 2008 Berlin International Film Festival (in Forum Expanded section), 2008 Rotterdam International Film Festival. "nostagia isn't what it used to be, i can only picture the disappearing world when you touch me"

taking pictures

anamnesis

  • 2015
  • Scott Miller Berry

“anamnesis” is a handmade diary film exploring home, memory, and history through heavily processed painterly sequences. The film was shot at the Independent Imaging Retreat (the Film Farm) in Mount Forest, Ontario.

Anamnesis

ars memorativa

  • 2015
  • Scott Miller Berry

ars memorativa is an experimental documentary in four chapters that examines what is left behind when someone passes away and how memory traces emerge from the remaining artifacts and memories. the four people intersected with the directors life in a variety of ways and their stories are shared in a mix of forms: hand processed celluloid, digital animation, audio interview and home movies.

ars memorativa

beth olem | house of the world

  • 2015
  • Scott Miller Berry

two super 8 camera rolls capturing the beth olem cemetery in detroit on the site of GM's "Poletown" plant, only open 4 hours per year.

beth olem | house of the world