Biography
Jim Blashfield (born September 4, 1944, Seattle, Washington) is an American filmmaker and media artist, best known for his short films such as Suspicious Circumstances and The Mid-Torso of Inez, and his music videos for musicians Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Nu Shooz, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, Marc Cohn, , and "Weird Al" Yankovic. He has collaborated with Bill Frisell and the Oregon Symphony.
Blashfield is the recipient of a Cannes Golden Lion, a Grammy Award, and 17 MTV Video Music Award nominations, including 3 Awards.
Other films include Bunnyheads, SuctionMaster, Vanity, and The Tasseled Loafers, an irreverent interpretation of Hector Berlioz' Dream of a Witch's Sabbath with music by the Czech Philharmonic, and the recent film Basement Suite.
Recent multi-image installations include the 11 screen welded aluminum sculpture "Mechanism", Tilicum Crossing's "Flooded Data Machine", the 7 screen "Circulator" and the 5 screen "Conveyor".
Filmography
all 9
Movies 9
Director 5
self 2
Producer 1
History, Mystery & Oyssey: Six Portland Animators (2023)
The One-Minute Memoir (2020)
Bad 25 (2012)
Tears for Fears: Tears Roll Down - Greatest Hits '82-'92 (2003)
Choreography for Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha) (1991)
How Much Is That Window in the Doggie? (1991)
Moonwalker (1988)
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant (1988)
Suspicious Circumstances (1985)
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GenderMale
Birthday1944-09-04 (79 years old)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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