# animate! › Films › Furniture Poetry by Paul Bush

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

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

[Film / embedded media](https://player.vimeo.com/video/36341747)

![Furniture Poetry, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/furniturepoetry01.jpg)

### a film by Paul Bush

### animate! synopsis

All change at Bush’s place. An object lesson in the fecundity of things. Variety is the spice as Wittgenstein pitches us into musical chairs, tables, apples and shoes with his thoughts on certainty, or its lack.

### key credits

**director**
Paul Bush

**music**
Andy Cowton

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