Occupation Film director Children Kyra Cox | Role Auteur Name Paul Cox Parents Wim Cox, Else Kuminack | |
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Full Name Paulus Henriqus Benedictus Cox Born 16 April 1940 (age 84) ( 1940-04-16 ) Netherlands Books Tales from the Cancer Ward, Three Screenplays Movies Man of Flowers, Innocence, Molokai: The Story of Father, Vincent, My First Wife Similar People Norman Kaye, Chris Haywood, Julia Blake, Gosia Dobrowolska, Terry Norris | ||
Education University of Melbourne | ||
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Paulus Henrique Benedictus "Paul" Cox (16 April 1940 – 18 June 2016) was a Dutch-Australian filmmaker, who has been recognized as "Australia's most prolific film auteur". "Cox's delicate films have been pockmarked with life's uncertainty. Loneliness within relationships is a staple of the Cox oeuvre, too". David Wenham states, "There is no one like Cox.... He is unique, and we need him, and people like him.... He is completely an auteur, because everything you see on the screen, and hear, has got Paul's fingerprints all over it."
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- Paul cox industries born free 6 build
- Paul cox
- Early life
- Career
- Photography books
- Selected exhibitions
- Features
- Shorts
- Documentaries
- TV
- Awards
- References
Paul cox
Early life
Cox was born in Venlo, Limburg, the Netherlands, the son of Else (née Kuminack), a native of Germany, and Wim Cox, a documentary film producer.
Career
Cox worked on the 1964 BBC TV docudrama, Culloden.
Cox emigrated to Australia in 1965, by which time he had already established a reputation as a photographer. In the late 1960s Cox travelled to Papua New Guinea with Ulli Beier whose interest was indigenous poetry, drama and creative writing. In the resulting book of Cox’s photographs of village life were set to poems written by Beier’s students. Beier and Cox later published a book on Mirka Mora
His teaching at Prahran College of Advanced Education in the 1970s with Athol Shmith and John Cato influenced a number of photographers and filmmakers, including Carol Jerrems. Cox collaborated with a number of screenwriters including John Clarke and Bob Ellis.
He published Reflections: An Autobiographical Journey in 1998.
His film-essay The Remarkable Mr. Kaye (2005) is a portrait of his ill friend, the actor Norman Kaye, who appeared in numerous Cox films, such as Lonely Hearts (1982) and Man of Flowers (1983). In 2006 he became the Patron of the Byron Bay Film Festival.
On 26 December 2009 he received a liver transplant. David Bradbury's 2012 documentary, On Borrowed Time, tells this story against the backdrop of his life and work, through interviews with Cox and his friends and colleagues. Cox has also written a memoir, Tales from the Cancer Ward. Rosie Igusti, a fellow transplant recipient he met there, later became his partner.
Cox's last film Force of Destiny, with David Wenham and Indian actress Shahana Goswami, was released in July 2015. Wenham plays a sculptor and transplant patient who falls in love with a patient he meets in the hospital ward. Cox attended the American premier of Force of Destiny at the Ebertfest Film Festival in Chicago, having travelled with Rosie via stops in Bangkok, Dubai, and Frankfurt in order to avert the effects of travel on their delicate health. He had been invited to speak after the screening, and did so.
Cox was named in Phillip Adams' List of 100 National Treasures in April 2015. On 18 June 2016, he died at the age of 76.