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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.
Hindsight reveals patterns. The various directions my work has taken over the last five decades -- film making, writing, digital media creation, cultural animation -- all seem to be plowing the same field with an assortment of different tools and approaches.
The Only Thing You Know is a 1971 Canadian drama film, directed by Clarke Mackey. Described by critics as a female version of the 1964 film Nobody Waved Good-bye, the film stars Ann Knox as Ann, a teenager who is dissatisfied with her suburban Toronto life.
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 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.”
Random Acts of Culture. By Clarke Mackey. 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.
