# animate! › Films › Furniture Poetry by Paul Bush › direction & collaboration

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/furniturepoetry/biography

Discovery terms: 1990s animation, object animation, stop-motion animation, everyday objects, perception, philosophy, experimental short film, filmmaker

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**Furniture Poetry** a film by Paul Bush

1999, 5 min 15 sec

### Paul Bush

#### biography

Paul Bush was born in 1956 and studied Fine Art at Central School and Goldsmiths College, London. He taught himself how to make films while a member of the London Film-makers Co-op and Chapter Film Workshop in Cardiff.

From 1981 to 1993 he taught film-making, establishing a film workshop in South London and supervising a wide variety of courses and the production of numerous student films. Between 1995 and 2001 he taught on the visual arts course at Goldsmiths.

He has lectured, run workshops and tutored at numerous art and film courses around the world including the Media Academy of Cologne, CalArts, St Lukas in Brussels, KASK in Ghent, HGK Lucerne, and the Royal College of Arts, Duncan of Jordanstone and the National Film & Television School in Britain.

2004

### animate! films by this artist

[Furniture Poetry](https://animate.org.uk/films/furniturepoetry/)

[His Comedy](https://animate.org.uk/films/hiscomedy/)

#### artist’s website

[Paul Bush](http://www.paulbushfilms.com/)

Paul’s website

**Furniture Poetry** film, stills and other materials © Paul Bush 1999