Biography

Michael Mideke is one of the truly unknown geniuses of black-and-white filmmaking, in large part because he's chosen to live for the last 20 years without telephone, electricity or running water in the coastal hills of central California. His films have a rhythmic beauty that unfolds into a startling revelation of the physical reality from which they spring. “I have come to make films where what happens is of secondary importance, where I am not telling stories but weaving together moods, touching on flavours of experience. My films are things to be seen and felt with some detachment as you might listen to a piece of music or observe the pla...Read More