Masterclass Diary

1 November 2007

Paul Bush Masterclass on Directing @ IFSW, Newport

FREE to all
10.00 - 13.00
A26, Rathmell Campus

Paul Bush was born in London in 1956. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and began film-making in 1978 as a member of the London Film-makers Co-op.

From 1981 to 1993 he taught film-making, establishing a 16mm film workshop in South London and supervising a wide variety of courses and the production of numerous student films. Since 1993 he has worked almost entirely as a director of short films most of which he also produces through his production company Ancient Mariner Productions.

His background in fine art remains an influence on his work, which crosses the boundaries between fiction, documentary and animation. His films have been shown in festivals, exhibitions and on television all over the world and are in the permanent collections of numerous galleries and educational institutions. Forgetting (1990) won the gold plaque for short drama at Chicago Film Festival, His Comedy (1994) has been awarded prizes at Melbourne, Bombay and Cinanima, The Rumour of True Things (1996) won at the Bonn Videonale, The Albatross (1996) at Zagreb, Hiroshima, Cinanima and Bombay, Furniture Poetry (1999) at Transmediale, Berlin and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde( 2001) at the Holland Animation Festival. Most of his films have been commissioned for broadcast but he has also made films for arts organisations and the commercial sector where his clients include National Panasonic and Philips. He recently won the ACC award in Japan for the best animation in a commercial for his work with National.

Between 1995 and 2001 he taught on the visual arts course at Goldsmiths and he regularly teaches at the National Film and Television School in the UK and HGK Luzern in Switzerland. He has also lectured at the Royal College of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone in the UK, St Lukas in Brussels, KASK in Ghent, the Media Academy of Cologne and Calarts in the USA.

Credits include

While Darwin Sleeps (2004)
Shinjuku Samurai (2004)
Geisha grooming (2003)
Secret Love (2002)
Busby Berkeley’s Tribute to Mae West (2002)     
Pas de Deux de Deux (2001)
Lie Detector (2001)
Jekyll and Hyde (2001)
Flik-Flak (2000) 
Furniture Poetry (1999)
The Albatross (1998)  
The Rumour of True Things (1996)
Still Life with Small Cup (1995)
His Comedy (1994)
Lake of Dreams (1992)  

Links:
Paul Bush Films http://www.paulbushfilms.com

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