About

Known credits:
43
Birthday:
1939-06-22
Place of birth:
Hamburg, Germany
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Paul Winkler

Overview

Paul Winkler is a German-born Australian filmmaker who lives and works in Sydney. He was associated with Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, Albie Thoms and David Perry in pioneering local experimental film production in the 1960s.

Winkler characterises his films as "a synthesis of intellect and emotion, filtered through the plastic material of film". "I try to let 'imagines' flow freely to the surface". The ideas which he terms ‘imagines’ may reflect Australian icons like Bondi Beach, Ayers Rock/Uluru and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or textures, as in Bark/Rind, Green Canopy, and the bush.

In 1973, Winkler's film Dark identified with the Aboriginal land rights movement, acquiring a spirituality which was also manifested in Chants and Red Church. Later films take contemporary society for their subject, as in Rotation, Time out for Sport and Long Shadows. His early apprenticeship is recalled in Brickwall, Backyard and Brick and Tile.

In 1995, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Sydney Intermedia Network mounted a retrospective screening of 30 of his films. The following year, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, USA screened 30 films in a three-day retrospective. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA holds 15 of his films in their collection.

Known for

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2018 Bean::Queen Directing Director N/A
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2018 Barbie and Friends Directing Director N/A
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2017 Morbid Sheep Directing Director N/A
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2015 Angel Directing Director N/A
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2011 Shooting Arrows Directing Director N/A
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2009 Drums + Trains Directing Director N/A
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2008 Many Buddhas Directing Director N/A
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2006 Pop Kitsch Directing Director N/A
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2004 Fishtank Directing Director N/A
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2000 Turmoil Directing Director N/A
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1998 Rotation Directing Director N/A
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1997 Capillary Action Directing Director N/A
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1996 Time Out For Sport Directing Director N/A
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1994 Green Canopy Directing Director N/A
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1993 Elevated Shores Directing Director N/A
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1991 Long Shadows Directing Director N/A
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1990 Glitter Directing Director N/A
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1988 Faint Echoes Directing Director N/A
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1987 Facades Directing Director N/A
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1986 Australian Bush Directing Director N/A
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1984 Incongruous Directing Director N/A
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1983 Brick and Tile Directing Director N/A
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1982 Traces Directing Director N/A
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1981 Ayers Rock Directing Director N/A
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1980 Urban Spaces Directing Director N/A
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1980 Taylor Square Directing Director N/A
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1980 Sydney-Bush Directing Director N/A
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1979 Window Directing Director N/A
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1979 Bondi Directing Director N/A
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1979 Cars Directing Director 58
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1977 Sydney Harbour Bridge Directing Director N/A
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1977 Bark-Rind Directing Director N/A
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1976 Red Church Directing Director N/A
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1976 Backyard Directing Director N/A
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1975 Brickwall Directing Director N/A
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1975 Chants Directing Director N/A
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1974 Dark Directing Director 59
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1971 Scars Directing Director N/A
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1970 Neurosis Directing Director N/A
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1969 Requiem No. 1 Directing Director N/A
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1968 Red & Green Directing Director N/A
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1967 Isolated Directing Director N/A
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1964 Mood Directing Director N/A
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