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Paul Bush (born 1956, north London) is a British experimental film director and animator. The son of classical composer Geoffrey Bush, Paul Bush studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College under Michael Craig-Martin. He later taught himself how to make films while a member of the London Film-Makers' Co-op.
He has since made numerous short and medium length films including The Cows Drama (1984), His Comedy (1994), Rumour of True Things (1996), Furniture Poetry (1999), While Darwin Sleeps (2004), and many others. He has won prizes at animation festivals in the Netherlands, Barcelona, Zagreb, Hiroshima, Bombay, Chicago and other places throughout the world. His website contains extracts of many of his films.
His films "Furniture Poetry"(1999) and 'While Darwin Sleeps' (2004) closely resemble Jan Švankmajer's animation 'Historia Naturae, Suita' (1967)
In addition to directing and animating, Bush pioneered a technique seen in a number of his films, including The Albatross. The technique involves scratching frame by frame directly into the surface of colour filmstock over live action footage, creating an animated sequence which resembles traditional wood engraving. Since 2002 Bush has increasingly focused on time lapse portraits of people and more conventional animation including a collaboration with artist Lisa Milroy which produced Geisha Grooming (2003).
Most Popular Paul Bush Trailers
Total trailers found: 26
01 January 2000
Short stop motion animation Directed by Paul Bush
01 January 2006
Paul Bush tries to talk about the making of While Darwin Sleeps and his aspirations for cinema but all the time the film itself tries to take over and in the end completely overwhelms him.
01 January 1995
A radical reworking of an etching by the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, brought to life by engraving frame by frame directly into the photographic emulsion of colour filmstock.
01 January 2006
It is the winter and the inhabitants of central Switzerland head for the mountains. They arrive in cars, trains, boats and buses, queue for the cable car, and then ski, snowboard, toboggan, eat, drink and fall asleep in one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world.
01 January 1994
A journey into the centre of Hell; Dante's The Divine Comedy, illustrated by Gustav Dore's wood engravings and animated by scratching directly into the surface of the film.
01 January 2004
More than three thousand insects appear in this film each for a single frame. As the colours glow and change across their bodies and wings it is as if the genetic programme of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes.
21 October 2002
The true story of the German Air Ministry commissioning designs of an aircraft capable of bombing New York City during World War II.
01 January 2003
A thoroughly modern geisha gets ready for a fun night out. This is the first episode of a (never completed!) series of short animations featuring the characters who appear in artist Lisa Milroy’s paintings.
09 May 2001
Imagine that the camera is possessed with a psychosis similar to human schizophrenia; suppose that this disease subtly changes every single frame of film while leaving the narrative superficially intact.
01 January 2016
The third short riff of three films which use the same image; a short story which is just short of a love story.
01 February 2002
The meeting of Hollywood’s most famous choreographer, and one of it’s most famous quotes “Is that a gun in your pocket?” (Mae West).
01 January 2004
The day is Friday, August 27, 2004. The Samurai are twenty six citizens of Tokyo, stopped as they pass in the busy Shinjuku business and entertainment district of the city.
01 January 2001
A parasitic presence has completely taken over the body of its host while allowing its movements and mannerisms to remain intact; a pas de deux from classical ballet has been restaged frame by frame with the two original dancers replaced by four new dancers.
10 April 2017
Stone and light, just stone and light. ‘Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. Sorrow and love became the principal themes of the elegy.
01 January 2000
Surreal animated short.
29 January 1997
Most of the moving images produced for science, industry, commerce, and medicine are seen only by specialized audiences, and are then discarded soon after they are made.
01 January 2000
The second instalment.
08 March 2013
In ancient times they talked of a city in which you could meet youself at birth and on your deathbed.
01 January 1984
Drama, from the Greek, to do, act, or perform. A composition in which a story is related by means of dialogue and action and is represented with accompanying gesture, costume and scenery, as in real life, a play.
01 January 1998
A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives.
01 January 2001
However much he lies there’s one part of a man’s body that always reveals the truth.
23 June 2015
An experimental animation in which thousands of artifacts from the collections of small museums are brought to life in an animated history of human endeavor.
13 October 2018
Quick cutting provides the speed in this tribute to two wheeled transport.
08 October 2003
This is a music clip for Percy Grainger's extraordinary orchestration of a gory Nordic folk song - Father and daughter.
24 August 2020
An elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has subjugated our planet – plastic.
01 January 2012
A composite portrait of the human body assembled from details captured by close-up photography of over five hundred men and women of all ages and from all over the world.
