Kim Miles
b. Adelaide, Australia.

BIOGRAPHY:   Kim has quite a diverse background; from unemployment and alcohol to Air Force, Opera House and acting, with detours through nursing, fitness work and cleansing the body!

Her earlier existence was characterised by anxiety, fear, isolation and big cracks running through her being.

2 years ago she was diagnosed with GENDER DYSPHORIA and is now a proud, cheerful transgendered woman.

Along the way, she considers art and filmmaking to be life-saving pre-occupations.

While agreeing that people's perceptions shouldn't be coloured by gender, age, race etc., she nevertheless sees cinema as an art form with the artist expressing what they are and what's inside them.

She thinks that cinema has more possibilities that aren't being explored.

She is unconventional, breaks the man-made rules, and thinks outside the square.

Her new 30-minute film 11 Minutes on Sunday is a culmination of many of her ideas, feelings and instincts.

	Top Speed of a Rabbit - 72 KPH

The films are always about human beings and all the simplicity/complexity that comes from living/dying.

• They look to entertain/amaze.
  
  
• To be substantial/poetic/artistic.
  
  
• To go outside the parameters of conventional thinking.
  
  
• To avoid an everyday/realistic look.
  
  
• Most importantly to push everything to an extreme level.
  
  
• Art must take reality by surprise.

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond." – M. Proust

See also Some thoughts on film-making

FILMOGRAPHY:

	The World Really is W

Love and Death (2002, 10 mins, Mini DV)

Living and Art (2002, 10 mins, Mini DV)

Suzi Wong’s Big Day Out (2002, 8 mins, Mini DV)

The Purpose of Life and the Nature of Death (2002, 4 mins 45 secs, Mini DV)

Proportion of Australian males with erectile problems; nearly 40% (2003, 8 mins, Mini DV)

I express my joy through singing and dancing (2003, 10 mins, Mini DV)

An afternoon of death dying and lethal behaviour (2003, 10 mins, Mini DV)

I thought I wasn’t (2003, 6 mins, Mini DV)

The World Really is W (2004, 6 mins, Mini DV)

	To Master a Long Good Night

The Colour is Blue (2004, 4 mins, Mini DV)

Terra Australis (2004, 4 mins 30 secs, Mini DV)

Top Speed of a Rabbit - 72 KPH (2004, 10 mins, Mini DV)

To Master a Long Good Night (2005, 6 mins 40 secs, Mini DV)

Sick to the Vitals (2005, 20 mins, Mini DV)

Untitled (2006, 6 mins 30 secs, Mini DV)

Four Women at a Bar (2006, 4 mins 25 secs, Mini DV)

When the Tree Falls, the Monkeys on it Will Scatter (2007, 6 mins , Mini DV)

11 Minutes on Sunday (2008, 30 mins, HDV, in post-production)

Contact Kim Miles

or by phone (in Australia) - 0415 177 099

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