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Director/Producer: Darryl Miller Bio Darryl Miller has worked as an audio post engineer and location sound recordist for the past 20 years. While working as an audio engineer in Regina Saskatchewan at Protrax, Twisted Pair and Talking Dog, he was involved in a number of feature films, Incredible Story Studio episodes, Mentors episodes and other made for television programs. Darryl has worked with his wife Elaine Pain on her last 6 films in a variety of key capacities including videographer, editor and audio post + location audio.Darryl is also a music composer whose original scores have appeared in a number of productions. Darryl received a grant from Common Weal Community Arts in Regina to produce a 47 minute audio CD called " I Remember ". The work documents oral history, traditions and community issues in rural Saskatchewan. You can download the I Remember CD MP3s at http://www.box.net/shared/m2hxbohs0g
In recent years, Darryl has received artist grants from The Canada Council of the Arts, The Saskatchewan Arts Board and SaskFilm for his work on the feature experimental documentary "Dark One".Nine years in the making, "Dark One" is Darryl’s first independent feature film.
Filmography - Selected Works
2007 - Dark One - 88 min experimental documentary
2003 - I Remember - 18 min promotional video- Documents a special screening of Prairie Echo Clips. A community tea,which brings together the people from “I Remember”, with The Board of The Cupar and District Heritage Museum -Director-Darryl Miller
2003 - Prairie Echo Clips -30min historical/promotional video- Eight individuals from the Cupar area share stories of early life and growing up on the prairies.Director : Darryl Miller. A 45 minute audio CD was produced, with assistance from Common Weal Community Arts. The clips are some of the stories before editing.
2002 - Communities In Bloom-CuparPromotionalVideo –13min-A tangible demonstration by the citizens for cultivating public areas, parks, trees and personal gardens.Director : Darryl Miller
2002-Memories Of Cupar with Brock Turner-18min-Personal thoughts and memories of 100 years of a small Saskatchewan town.Director:Darryl Miller
2001-Cupar Canucks/Cubs Reunion-1hr-Hockey as a small town institution and contributions of local hockey legend Eddie Shore Director : Darryl Miller
1996 - Thin Ice - 14 min.(shared videography credit) Elaine Pain
1993 - Neurasthenia - experimental nature
1993 - Shapes - animation
1992 - All We Say to America - experimental narrative
1992 - Water Colour - experimental nature
1992 - Truth - experimental AND NOW-Truth Redux 2008
1992 - Confine Your Art - experimental
1992 - Propaganda - experimental
1992 - Time Moves On - narrative ( co-director) sound/editor
1991 - Serenity - Director Elaine Pain - Music + Sound -Darryl Miller
1991 - The Spotted Dog of Truth - animation
1991 - Voices - experimental
1991 - Is this Progress? - experimental
1990 - The Dragon - animation
1990 - A Different World - experimental narrative
1989 - Circles - music video
1989 - Home of the Free - music video
1989 - Mechanical Reality - music video
1989 - Rays - music video
Nominations :
2007 - Dark One :Nominated Best Canadian Feature Documentary
The Saskatchewan Film and Video Showcase Nominations:
2003-Memories of Cupar :Nominated:Best Educational,Best Host Presenter
1996 - Thin Ice : director: Elaine Pain. Award for Best Experimental.
Nominated: Best Direction,Best Videography, Best Overall Sound
1995 - The Trickster : director: Gordon McLennan. Best Music.
1992-Truth : director: Darryl Miller. Best Experimental in student category.
1991 - Voices : director: Darryl Miller. Best Student Film.
Awards :
1996 - The Saskatchewan Film and Video Festival:The Willing Voyeur: director: Richard Kerr.Best Overall Sound by Protrax Digital Inc.
1993 - Images '93 : V is for Video-Truth-director-DarrylMiller.People's Choice Award.
1993 - 7th Annual National Student Film and Video Showcase-Shapes-director-Darryl Miller-Jean Oser Award of Merit for Best Overall Sound.

About Me :
Darryl lives in Cupar, SK, a town of less than 600 people located 75 kilometres northeast of Regina. It is most famous for the Cupar Gopher Drop, a unique lottery held every summer. Stuffed toy gophers (Richardson's Ground Squirrels) labelled with numbers are dropped from a hot-air balloon along with numbered gopher holes. The "owner" of the gopher that lands nearest Hole 1 wins first prize, and so on.

Posted by icecubefactory at 3/28/2007 09:51:00 AM 
I watched the trailer with the bird and bunny. Too funny. Loved it. Congrats on everything you have accomplished. Keep up the artistic imagination. Patty K

April 27, 2007 at 12:18 PM icecubefactory said...

Thanx Patty...hope you are feeling better :)

May 7, 2007 at 8:37 PM anarky said...

i really enjoy your blogg.....
keep up the spirit of being free and of being someone who can see what others choose to ignore....

May 29, 2007 at 10:54 AM 
Thank-you so much anarky. I like your blog as well. Good work. I wish everyone would just take their blinders off for a moment and look around...It's funny what we choose to ignore.

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December 17, 2009 at 5:47 AM 
More information will be coming in the guise of Indoctrination,,, 3 CDs and a feature movie that studies some of these things in mote detail .... but in an abstract way....
Thanks and glad you liked it

December 17, 2009 at 6:54 AM Indoctrination Music in Progress Indoctrination coming soon to a theater near you....
Music by The Qube.
Dan Biholar
Chris Gavin
Darryl Miller
- a new sound and focus has begun
- a new adventure to explore.
Indoctrination-a 3 CD Spoken word / soundscape adventure and Experimental Feature Film exploring intelligent design, the evolution of man's spirituality and his compassion for humanity, while destroying himself and the world due to character flaws. A drug addicted street poet's musings on man's role, human nature, self examination and spirituality warped through perceptions of mass media, art and literature. In the end, the truth of events becomes secondary to our perception of these events, and the world we live in. Dark One Links-1 Discussing God + Satan DOK Leipzig Short Write Up

Dark One - Darryl Miller, Canada 2007, 88 min
The son a morphine addict, the mother a Holocaust survivor. The madness of a family on a hypnotic trip with Australian parrot. HotDocs Summary

A drug-addicted poet searches for spiritual redemption as he cooks up morphine at the kitchen table with his Auschwitz survivor mother and pet bird. This brilliant, hallucinatory immersion into the psyche of Dan Biholar, a soul spiraling into oblivion, pushes the medium of the moving image about as far as it can go. Biholar vacillates between moments of acute self-awareness, disturbing darkness, tender sentiment, lyrical inspiration and delusions of grandeur. Award-winning experimental filmmaker and sound designer Darryl Miller was once in Biholar's shoes. With unsettling accuracy, Miller sculpts a sensory overload of hypnotic soundscape and half-melted psychedelic imagery that submerges us in Biholar's altered states. There is no safe distance from which to observe this visceral blurring between art, psychosis and reality-let's hope our sanity returns when the lights come back on. Darryl"s interview with Canadian Programer Gisèle Gordon For Hot Doc"s Daily

DARK ONE INTERVIEW – GG interview with Darryl Miller GG: With Dark One, you've created some beautifully sophisticated visual effects times with an intricate and powerful soundscape that, for many who watch it, it feels as if they experience, rather than simply observe, what your main subject Dan Biholar goes through. Did you do this intentionally, or did it happen organically? DM: This film does not promote drugs...but it does very effectively enter the mind of an addict...It allows people not on drugs to experience an altered state experience like being on some drugs. When you are a drug addict, it feels as if the world is melting. Reality is just one option... one path among many. The memories from my hard drug days are burnt into my brain and I have been trying to recreate the experience on film and more recently digital video since I was a student at the University of Regina. This film gave me an opportunity to explore these techniques in a much more controlled environment using recent computer and software advances. I realised that I could enter the mind of my subject, rather than just observing... Of course this is only my perspective of what I think Dan could be feeling or experiencing at the time, based on my own past experiences with the same issues. I could enter Dan's head (a scary place at times) and allow the spectator to experience the situations in the film. Some of this is done by framing, extreme close-ups, and multi layer transparency effects and various melting filters in the Programs Boris Effects and After Effects. GG: How did this mind-altering film come to be? DM: I started working on a poetry/soundscape project with Dan. During this process, crazy things were happening over at Dan's. I decided that I would document some of the proceedings (it was always a spectacle of some sort or another). I was very surprised at the footage that I shot. I couldn't believe what Dan and his mother were doing and saying, and decided to make a film about the poetry project and Dan's life. The Saskatchewan Arts Board had helped with the funding for the audio cd and I decided to apply to The Canada Council for a grant based on my footage and poetry/soundscape work. After trying a few different technical approaches, I started working with Adobe Premiere and Adobe AfferEffects using variations of the multitudes of free Photoshop plugins on the web. Halfway through the video shoot I discovered that my Cannon L1 Hi8 camera I had been using started having problems.... This was after I transferred everything with time code to video, and it all looked great, I thought the camera just needed a little maintenance...I was wrong...They fixed the alignment and now all my footage to that point had a massive tracking problem. Here is where computers came in extremely handy. By re-photographing some of the footage, cropping, filters, and some creative editing.... I was able to rescue most of the footage that I knew would never occur again in a million years.... In fact, I liked the look that had been achieved on those scenes and went to work matching unaffected footage to match. I've had to make do my whole life using obsolete equipment and found a way to make it work (it always takes time though). GG: Documentary filmmakers always have to negotiate boundaries, but as someone who was once addicted to drugs, how did you keep your distance from Dan's addiction and his dark delusions? DM: It was very difficult to deal with both of these issues. As I am a recovering addict, the cravings are always there. One nice thing is I could at least escape out to the country with my wife and dog. We live in Cupar where there are no temptations ... ok ... very few I am aware of. As for the dark delusions...this was my second dilemma. I'm not so sure that all of them are delusions, and they may indeed be based in some sort of reality and or dimension that we as human beings can sometimes tap into when reaching or achieving different states of consciousness and awareness. Some of the delusions are just that... delusions inspired and caused by extreme morphine and drug withdrawal. But some of them... At a very young age I had a number of what you would call paranormal or just plain freaky experiences that I have explained as spiritual in nature and also quite disturbing, All of this occurred with the use of drugs or alcohol. In one of my fairly Christian phases in my life, I experienced the shadow creatures (referred to many times in the film) in my friend’s basement. It was quite traumatic and definitely left it's mark on me. It's true what they say..."when you cross the line, it's hard to get back". I could write a book about what I think it all means and what happened but we're here to talk about Dark One. Later in my life (in late teen years and early 20's) I experienced the shadow creatures again. Unfortunately, in this time of my life I was heavy into Pot, LSD, MDA, Coke, Booze (You name it-including shooting), and was very unprepared to deal with the creatures since some of my faith and conviction had been stripped away by the drugs. Doing research on the subject and talking to others with similar experiences, I came to a conclusion that some of this stuff has got to be real but intangible and almost impossible to prove .I read somewhere that hundreds of thousands have experienced similar things... especially under the influence of drugs. Problem is...the longer you do drugs , the more your brain deteriorates...I'm quite crazy now also...But... I may have gotten into drugs + booze because of the many odd and strange (hallucinations) I experienced long before I got into drugs.... I believe drugs can open your mind enough to allow you to see things that are around us all the time (think of it as another dimension, that most people refuse to acknowledge exists).... problem is drugs are addicting and eventually warp these perceptions.... probably better to be a Buddhist monk or something.... The spiritual aspect of life is important and many concepts many addicts struggle with in this regard...do have some merit.... I believe there is a God, a devil, angels, and spirits...I've seen them! Back to the film.... how did this affect me personally while shooting and editing...let's just say I'm on antidepressants now. No demons lately. GG: Do you have any advice for the audience who is coming to see your film? DM: Be prepared. Some of the images are intense, disturbing, and not for the faint of heart. Just try to melt into the experience and not think too much about everything that is said or done. There is a lot of information to absorb and many levels of meaning. I'm still noticing some and I've worked on this for over 9 years. I guess that's what the DVD will be good for...You may not want to watch it again, but you might have to watch it a few times to get most of the concepts, ideas, and underlining meanings, The film is as much about some of my experiences as well as Dan's thoughts and experiences, among other things. Just remember.... It’s not real.... Or is it? Gisèle Gordon-Hot Docs 2007 Canadian Programer

We thought it was truly brilliant, the first time I watched all the way through and the second, when I dropped more deeply into it. You’ve truly exploited the plasticity of the medium in a way that makes absolute sense for this film. I felt that tingly feeling that you get every few years when you connect with a truly great work of art. Sneak Peek"s Norma Dell"Agnese, sends HNR this exclusive final report from Hot Docs

In Dark One, Regina filmmaker Darryl Miller fuses the story of drug-addicted poet Dan Bilohar with experimental filmaking to create a 'documentary' that's difficult to describe: a mezmerizing soundscape laced with poetry, hallucinations and the poet's day-to-day life with his Holocaust-survivor mother and his pet bird. With the help of his wife Elaine Pain, Miller spent 9 years making the film, and the attention to imaginative detail shows us why. A former addict before he went to film school, he explained at the screening that he wanted to recreate what it was like to be high on hard drugs-- unless you've been there, it's difficult to say whether he succeeded-- -- but it's a wild trip, and a unique experience you won't soon forget. Hospital Delusions Dan Biholar Review In Retrospect Feb 12 2008 Dan Biholar ArtWork The Sun Weeping For The Moon Are you a devil or a man... or a man made devil ? Boobaloo and the bunny Darryl,weaver of dreams, and beautiful imagery.Capture my soul...and free it... "Gestorben wird uberall" in "Tageszeitung"-translated

Documentary Film Festival Leipzig-Death is everywhere

Strange was felt, as the time passed, even with the opening of the 50th Festival for documentary and animation film in Leipzig. The pathos is gone, with the documentary many years in the political opening speeches and celebrated his truthfulness of the alleged hostile, alienating awareness against industry. It is factual and has become fairly mundane problems encountered: "After years of cost increases for stagnating budget, we can what has been achieved with existing resources no longer hold," says Festival Director Claas Danielsen. An exhibition and an extensive retrospective wisdom recalled the ambivalent GDR history of the festival. Initially, the oldest documentary film festival in the world. The animal Heinz Sielmann won one of the first prizes. Ideological be hardened to times of the Cold War. There were strange alliances at the end of the sixties, when West German filmmakers as "Jimi Hendrix at Altamont" konspirativ to Leipzig brought. The pragmatism with which Claas Danielsen for a few years, but the festival also as a meeting point position, first met some of the head. But not only the steadily increasing audience figures, but also the industry representatives give him right. It seems to me the festival, whose guest I since the mid-90s bin, a wonderful system in which serious films from all over the world, filmmakers, guests, audience and organizers six days intensively over the world and communicate with each other representation. This system works so well because the festival is manageable.
The history of seeing films evolves, half chance, as in a good conversation. I was comfortable with the Canadian filmmaker Darryl Miller and came into the conversation because we both of which suffered so badly to be tightened. His jogging pants were dirty, because he is on the verge of a Czech film festival had been hijacked; I had made inattention to the way he was dressed. So we came into the conversation, and I was then in his film "Dark One." This is a difficult psychedelic film on the level of technology. It is about the morphine addicted poet Dan Bilohar, with his mother, who was in Auschwitz, and it is about the reality shock of the story of the mother, the hallucinatory Künstlichkeiten interrupt. Everything is infected by Miller's own drug history; Exhausting, sometimes blurred documentary, partly radically psychedelic. On the sidelines pitchforks, a small bird peaks repeatedly at small tin bowls, kitchen cabinet in black and white.Through Miller's film, I was on a dark track came in the eight-minute film "Jean Paul" by Francesco Uboldi dies. He was a man from his family and from his village in Cameroon violated. The filmmaker learns randomly from the story, which a lot of superstition has to do, and is to a tree geketteten man and brought filming. The face of the dying looks beautiful. Four hours after the shots dies Jean Paul.
They threw the filmmaker, not to have helped; He replied credible that he would have had no chance. It was a matter of him gone, somehow, the dying to give a memento; He also that in a shocking settings, as the insects to sore joints of dying eat, have renounced. Also in the 100-minute, very impressive documentation of the British pioneer of Reality TV, Paul Watson, two people die. "Rain in my heart" accompanied four patients an alcohol withdrawal Station. The scenes are hardly bearable, in which the filmmaker patients in their recovery cases films; The position of director is shaky. For the woman whose husband just died, the accompanying camera friend. The film leads drastically the Dysfunktionalität the state health system in mind. In "Nothing to be scared of" Malgorzata Szumowska, however, almost serenely from the dying speech. Old masurische farmers sit on benches in front of their houses and tell how to help dying on their last journey, how to handle corpses bypasses. Embedded in traditions and rural communities of death still seems quite naturally to belong to life without terror.
Of course gabs also different: the new, beautiful films by Gerd Kroske, Hartmut Bitomsky, Volker Koepp or Thomas Heise. Wunderbar was Sandra Prechtels and Sascha Hilperts portrait of a large, GDR in disgrace fallen Radsportlers, "Sports Lötzsch friend," and the simply wonderful debut film director of the Romanian Adina Pintilie, "Dont get me wrong." He plays in the psychiatric hospital. Two of the heroes are schizophrenic. One, a graceful, polite Lord, has the ability to deal with God to entertain; The other is convinced that rain to stop. Every day, the two on the grounds of the psychiatric hospital and quarrel with the utmost politeness: "Do not get me wrong, but...." DETLEF KUHLBRODT Leader-Post Press Thursday, April 19, 2007(Mark Claxton)

Film hits close to home Two longtime friends who have lived the highs and horrors of drug addiction now find themselves on opposite ends of a camera lens in a Saskatchewan-made feature film set to premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto. Independent filmmaker and former Regina resident Darryl Miller was invited to the festival after organizers viewed his 88-minute documentary Dark One, which immerses the viewer in the mind and daily existence of Dan Biholar, a writer of poetry who continues to inject himself with morphine even as his mind and body suffer the ravages of the drug's effects. Featuring stark computer-generated visual effects and readings of Biholar's poetry set to sound and music, the film follows its protagonist by weaving in and out of a hallucinatory world. Beginning its story through the eyes of Biholar's mother, a woman who survived Auschwitz only to watch his long, slow spiral into disintegration, the film then explores Biholar's cycles of lucidity and delusion as he seeks redemption in religious, spiritual and philosophical writings -- between hits of his drug of choice and interactions with his beloved pet bird. "It comes in and out of reality," said director Miller in a telephone interview from his home in Cupar. "It's like you're doing drugs, without having to do drugs." During a recent production session, one editor told Miller that in this film, 'reality is the effect.' "He said, 'There's so much craziness, when you go back to reality, that's the shocking part,' " Miller recalled. While Miller wrote, directed and produced the film, his wife and longtime filmmaking partner Elaine Pain served as executive producer. "When this film began nine years ago, I didn't have grey hair and I had my own teeth," Pain said in a written statement for media. "Life has not been normal since." For Miller, the completion of Dark One has been an obsession and odyssey that has left him emotionally and physically exhausted. A recovering addict who still deals with occasional cravings himself, he has spent innumerable days in the company of his friend, watching Biholar's drug-induced trances and --- perhaps more painfully -- filming his moments of clear-eyed awareness, regret and scarred wisdom. "It's been a hard one to make," he said. Initially, Miller intended only to produce CDs that would marry his friend's poetry to his own musical compositions. Eventually, however, "I decided to shoot some stuff, and all this dramatic footage started happening," he said. "Nine years later, here we are." The project was also helped along by the relatively recent advent of digital film technology and editing software. "Part of the problem was putting visuals to it, because it was so abstract," Miller said. "With computers now, you can do it." On Friday, Miller will sit in the darkened Bloor Cinema in Toronto with other festival participants and watch his harrowing vision come to life on the big screen. His excitement and nervousness are apparent even as he ventures one candid opinion.I hope nobody goes (to the premiere) stoned. That would be a problem. This thing is intense enough when you're straight." Miller is in discussions with the Regina Public Library regarding a potential screening of Dark One in September. By then, it's possible the film's promotional material could bill it as a winner of the Hot Docs Best Canadian Film category. While he hopes for the film's successful reception, he has higher hopes yet for Biholar, his friend of 20 years. "He's drywalling now and he has some writing he wants to do," Miller said. "If he could get off that stuff, he would be quite brilliant."This addiction thing. It's a bitch." Collaborations, Music + Video Sites SpaceVortex-Dan's Art Warped Dan's Art Scanned + Filtered Artwork Scan#3 Tile Art #1 By Dan Biholar A wonderful musician and good friend: My new band The Qube... Cockroaches, Dan Biholar, and myself. Visit Megaphoning Fractal Fist-Created by k00k00s while listening to the Dark One soundtrack Darryl Millerhttp://www.bebo.com/DarrylM828