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	PAUL BUSH Ancient Mariner Productions Ltd 93, Lausanne Road London SE15 2HY Phone /Fax: +44 -20- 7635 7533
Biography	Filmography	Screenings

Biography

Paul Bush was born in London in 1956. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and began making films in 1978 after joining 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 1995 he has been teaching on the visual arts course at Goldsmiths. Most of his work has been commissioned for broadcast but he has also made films for arts organisations and the commercial sector. His background in Fine Arts 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.

Filmography

1984   The Cow's Drama Experimental film which dramatises two days in the life of s cow. 38mins 16mm 1987   So Many, So Magnificent Experimental documentary/drama about medieval architecture and philosophy. 45mins 16mm - Channel 4 TV. 1990   Lost Images Experimental site-specific work for TV which re-presents images from a single days television. 1min(X2) Umatic - BBC2 TV. 1990   Forgetting Short drama about love and time 35mins 16mm - Gold plaque for short drama, Chicago Film Festival. 1992   Lake of Dreams Short drama about love and space set st the time of the Apollo moon Iandings. 13mins 16mm 1994   His Comedy Gustav Dore's illustrations of The Divine Comedy animated by scratching directly into filmstock. 8mins 35mm - Channel 4 TV - awarded at Melbourne, Cinanima 94, Bombay, Minsk, Bodrum. 1995   Still Life with Small Cup An etching by G orgio Morandi animated by scratching directy into filmstock. 4mins 35mm - Channel 4 TV - special recognition award at Zagreb Animation Festival. 1996   The Rumour of True Things Documentary of our society as seen through a collection of specialised moving images from research, military, industry etc. 26mins 16mm - Channel 4 TV - Grand Prix, Bonn Videonale 1998   The Albatross Woodcut illustrations to S T Coleridge's The Rime of The Ancient Mariner  animated by scratching directly into filmstock. 15mins 35mm - BBC2 TV - awarded at Zagreb, Hiroshima, Cinanima 99, Bilbao festivals. 1999  Furniture Poetry Animation in which domestic objects are transformed through pixilation 5mins 35mm - Channel 4 TV.

Selected Screenings

Screenings, exhibitions and broadcast during 1999: In 1999 his films have been shown at the following international film festivals: Portland, Oslo, Toronto, Annecy, Huesca, Montecatini, Potsdam, Anima Mundi (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo), New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch, Palmerston North, Hamilton), Singapore, Seoul, Sao Paulo, Krok (Ukraine), Fantoche (Switzerland), I Castelli Animati (Rome). Animac (Lleida), Leipzig, Schorndorff, Cinanima 99 (Porto), Wiesbaden, Welsh (Cardiff), Siena, Cortocinema (Rome), European Films (Ankara, Bursa, Canakkale, Izmir, Drama), Black Nights (Tallinn), Cartoombria (Perugla). They have been screened at Art and Animation  at the ICA and are participating in Animate and Fascinate,  an exhibition at the Collins Gallery, Glasgow and touring Scotland. They have been shown on theatrical release in the UK at the Ritzy, Phoenix, Tricycle and David Lean cinemas, London and The Cameo, Edinburgh and at various screenings in Tokyo, Montreal, London and Manchester. They have been broadcast on Channel 4 UK, Cinefil Imegica Japan and SVT Sweden and they can be seen in the permanent collections of The Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, The Kunstmuseum, Bonn and the Audio Visual Lihrary of Hiroshima.