Paul Duane
Paul Duane is an Irish-born writer and director of television and film.[1] His directing credits include Ballykissangel (1999), Casualty (2001), The Royal (2002), Small Potatoes (1999-2001), and Footballer's Wives (2003), Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007-2011), Barbaric Genius (2011), Very Extremely Dangerous (2012), Natan (2013), Welcome to the Dark Ages (2019), and All You Need Is Death (2023).
Career
[edit]Duane started his career directing episodes for television, credits include Ballykissangel (1999),[2] Casualty (2001),[2] The Royal (2002), Small Potatoes (1999-2001),[2] and Footballer's Wives (2003).[2]
He has also made several short films including LSD 73! (2003), based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe.[3]
He co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007-2011),[1] based on the blog, Belle de Jour. The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Duane and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy, Barbaric Genius (2011).[2]
More recent films include Very Extremely Dangerous (2012),[2] and Natan (2013), about the French producer Bernard Natan.[2]
In December 2013 he was listed by Variety magazine as part of their yearly 10 Directors to Watch feature.[4]
Welcome to the Dark Ages (2019), originally called What Time Is Death?, was described as "his long-gestated study of new activities by the men who used to be KLF".[5] The documentary film charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's Welcome to the Dark Ages 2017 festival in Liverpool, as well as their plan to build The People's Pyramid, a project to build a pyramid of hand-fired bricks, each containing the ashes of a dead person.[6][7][8] The film featured at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival.[5]
Best Before Death (2019) is a documentary film about Drummond's 25 Paintings World Tour.[9][10]
All You Need Is Death (2023), a folk-horror feature with soundtrack by Ian Lynch of Lankum, premiered October 2023 at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles [11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Paul Duane". BFI. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Paul Duane Credits". tvguide.com. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
- ^ "Crisis? What crisis ?". The Irish Times.
- ^ "Variety Announces This Year's 10 Directors to Watch". Variety. 2 December 2013.
- ^ a b Clarke, Donald. "As KLF they burned £1m. Now they're firing bricks of human ashes". The Irish Times.
- ^ "The KLF Release New Film Welcome to the Dark Ages". Pitchfork. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ "Watch 'Welcome To The Dark Ages', the new film about the return of the KLF". NME. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ "Watch a new film about the return of The KLF". DJ Mag. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ "Best Before Death review – Bill Drummond's intriguing art odyssey". The Guardian. 22 September 2019.
- ^ Clarke, Donald. "Best Before Death: KLF's Bill Drummond takes another arty figary". The Irish Times.
- ^ "All You Need Is Death listing". American Cinematheque.
External links
[edit]- Paul Duane at IMDb