Paul Winkler

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-06-22 (86 years old)

Place of Birth

Hamburg, Germany

Paul Winkler

Biography

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 Aborigina...

Production

1979

Window

as Director

1979

Cars

as Director

1980

Sydney-Bush

as Director

1980

Taylor Square

as Director

1983

Brick and Tile

as Director

1984

Incongruous

as Director

1986

Australian Bush

as Director

1987

Facades

as Director

1988

Faint Echoes

as Director

1993

Elevated Shores

as Director

1991

Long Shadows

as Director

1994

Green Canopy

as Director

1997

Capillary Action

as Director

2000

Turmoil

as Director

2004

Fishtank

as Director

2006

Pop Kitsch

as Director

2008

Many Buddhas

as Director

2009

Drums + Trains

as Director

2011

Shooting Arrows

as Director

2017

Morbid Sheep

as Director

2018

2015

Angel

as Director

1975

Brickwall

as Director

1981

Ayers Rock

as Director

1979

Bondi

as Director

1998

Rotation

as Director

1996

2018

Bean::Queen

as Director

1980

Urban Spaces

as Director

1977

1990

Glitter

as Director

1977

Bark-Rind

as Director

1976

Red Church

as Director

1974

Dark

as Director

1964

Mood

as Director

1967

Isolated

as Director

1968

Red & Green

as Director

1969

Requiem No. 1

as Director

1970

Neurosis

as Director

1971

Scars

as Director

1975

Chants

as Director

1982

Traces

as Director

1976

Backyard

as Director

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