Nigel Buesst

Nigel Buesst
Born(1938-04-30)30 April 1938
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died27 December 2024(2024-12-27) (aged 86)
EducationUniversity of Melbourne
OccupationsFilmmaker, film director, educator
Years active1963–2018

Nigel Buesst (30 April 1938 – 27 December 2024) was an Australian filmmaker from Melbourne. After graduating B.Com in 1960 from Melbourne University he headed overseas to London and worked as an assistant editor at Shepparton Studios.

On returning to Melbourne in 1962 he worked for some months at the ABC's Ripponlea newsroom, and freelanced as a cameraman on various productions. He also started directing his own films, beginning with “Fun Radio” in 1963.

After the success of his film "Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor" he began teaching at the Swinburne University of Technology (1970-1984) while continuing to make films on a diverse range of subjects.

He was also a co-founder and the artistic director of the St Kilda Film Festival from 1986 to 1990.

Buesst has been described as "a living legend of Melbourne's film scene" and was a figure in the "Carlton wave" of Australian filmmaking. He died in December 2024, at the age of 86.

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Director on all titles, unless otherwise noted.

References

  1. 1 2 "Nigel Buesst". Melbourne Independent Filmmakers.
  2. 1 2 "Filmnews (Sydney NSW: 1975-1995)". Filmnews. Vol. 13, no. 7. New South Wales, Australia. 1 July 1983. p. 8. Retrieved 1 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Darkest Before the Dawn: Australian films of the 1960s". Ozflicks.
  4. ↑ "The St. Kilda Film Festival: Looking Back". Senses of Cinema.
  5. ↑ Martin, Adrian (May 2003). "Carlton + Godard = Cinema". Film Critic.
  6. ↑ Bruce Hodson, 'The Carlton Ripple and the Australian Film Revival', Screening the Past Archived 18 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 17 September 2012
  7. ↑ ‘A legendary figure’: Nigel Buesst, filmmaker and educator, dead at 86
  8. ↑ "JAZZ Scrapbook". Filmnews. Vol. 13, no. 7. New South Wales, Australia. 1 July 1983. p. 9. Retrieved 1 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "BENNY FEATHERSTONE: PRINCE OF GOOD FELLOWS" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "Talking with Ade".
  11. ↑ Wilson, Jake. "Carlton + Godard = Cinema: An Interview with Nigel Buesst". Senses of Cinema.