Paul Cox
| Paul Cox | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Paulus Henrique Benedictus Cox 16 April 1940 Venlo, Netherlands |
| Died | 18 June 2016 (aged 76) |
| Occupation | Film director photographer writer |
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."
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.
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.
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