Syd Miller

Biography

Syd Miller is a trans filmmaker born outside Baltimore, MD who was previously based in Philadelphia, PA and is currently based in Richmond, VA. Syd’s filmmaking has emerged in heavy collaboration with the underground music scenes he calls home. He has directed 23 music videos for experimental artists in the USA, Mexico, Italy, and China, and has extensively toured the east coast as half of the interactive audio-visual duo reCAPTCHA. Syd also video-jockeys at noise and dance music festivals, curates a video art installation at his local community garden, and programs with Hard Light, a pop-up cinema in Richmond. New Construction is his first feature length film. He is currently working on a parallel feature about Richmond.