biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Film-maker and painter, born in Newport, SE Wales, UK. Trained as a painter, he first exhibited at the Lord's Gallery in 1964. Employed at the Central Office of Information (1965–76), he worked as an editor and began making his own short films, gaining a reputation on the international festival circuit with such works as A Walk Through H (1978) and The Falls (1980), before The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) won him critical acclaim and a wider audience. His later works explore such preoccupations as sex, death, decay, and gamesmanship, and include The Belly of An Architect (1987), Drowning By Numbers (1988), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989), Prospero's Books (1991), The Baby of Macon (1993), and The Pillow-Book (1996). 8 ½ Women appeared in 1999. |
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