Paul Bush wins Special Golden Dinosaur Award at Etiuda & Anima Festival

The Special Golden Dinosaur Prize for an outstanding animation artist has been awarded to Film Club director Paul Bush.

‘Paul is a legend of British animation, an artist with an enchanting technique who creates intriguing works. Bush often reinterprets classical literary works (such as Dante’s Divine Comedy) and art (e.g. Giorgio Morandi’s plates), taking inspiration from various branches of science. His latest work, Babeldom (2011) is a result of such inspiration.

Bush is a pioneer of a technique of scratching frame by frame directly into the surface of colour filmstock over live action footage (seen e.g. in The Albatross, 1998). This technique resembles traditional wood engraving and gives the artist the opportunity to focus on the material (in this case –  film stock). Bush also uses stop motion animation techniques, which can be seen in his film Furniture Poetry.’

Pauls latest feature animation Babledom  and his latest short animation Lay Bare have been extensively screened during 2012 at  28 International festivals including, Ontario, Montreal, Ottawa, Hiroshima, Holland and Annecy. Babledom will be screened next month at the ICA