Miles Carter

Miles Carter is a director and photographer from northern Italy. His films are made of stillness: fixed frames, black and white, heavy grain, and long silences where nothing happens and everything is felt. He is drawn to the hours between one day and the next, to empty peripheral spaces, and to the quiet sense that time is passing faster than it should. Working alone or with a minimal crew, often at night and with available light, Carter treats the camer…

Miles Carter is a director and photographer from northern Italy. His films are made of stillness: fixed frames, black and white, heavy grain, and long silences where nothing happens and everything is felt. He is drawn to the hours between one day and the next, to empty peripheral spaces, and to the quiet sense that time is passing faster than it should. Working alone or with a minimal crew, often at night and with available light, Carter treats the camera as a witness rather than a narrator. His influences range from literature of the absurd to the melancholy of mid-century jazz and the ghosts of past decades. His debut short, Yesterday and Today (2026), is a two-minute study of a single figure on a balcony at midnight. He is currently developing Somewhere Else, a black and white film about adolescence and absence, and Veillée, to be shot in Paris. He produces his work under SoftLight Pictures. His photographic series Essence Tunisienne will be exhibited at Picta, Castrocaro Terme, in April 2027.