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Clarke Mackey (born September 30, 1950) is a Canadian filmmaker, author, and educator. He is known for his first feature film, The Only Thing You Know (1972), and for the focus in his filmmaking and writing on vernacular culture.
Clarke Mackey is a media maker, writer, teacher and cultural activist living in Kingston, Ontario. He has worked as a director, cinematographer, editor, producer or writer on over 50 film, television and new media projects.
Emeritus Professor. Clarke Mackey has been teaching in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University for 26 years. Before that he taught at York University and Sheridan College of Art and Design. Clarke is an accomplished media producer.
Clarke Mackey – Between the Lines. Clarke Mackey has taught in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University since 1988. Over the last forty years his feature films, television shows, and documentaries on social justice issues have won awards and garnered much critical praise.
“Clarke Mackey moves with panache from personal perspective into a bold interdisciplinary account of why art is the way it is in our present-day society, and how it could—and why it should—be otherwise.”
Clarke Mackey, filmmaker-teacher-mentor-provocateur. Written by Amanda Sage on December 16, 2011. Hear the latest podcast with this Kickass Canadian. Recorded: June 7, 2016. “I’ve always believed that art is not an escape from reality, but it is one of the ways that we live with reality.”
Clarke Mackey is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University, where he taught from 1988 until 2018. His courses included narrative and documentary film and video production, Canadian cinema, culture and technology, and interdisciplinary performance, as well as Film 110: Film, Culture and Communication.
