Paul Rowley is a visual artist and filmmaker. He first began making films in
1995. Since then he has completed over 30 shorts, feature films, video installations,
and documentaries. The works are shown both in galleries and film festivals.

In 1998 Paul began a collaborative partnership with American artist David Phillips. This
interest in collaborative practice has continued to be a significant part of his work since.
Many of his projects have been created with other artists and filmmakers such as Nicky
Gogan, Tim Blue and Emily Manzo. Paul and David's first short film Suspension was
completed in 1998 and won a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International
Film Festival. In 2000 they won the Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, the Irish Museum of
Modern Art's annual contemporary art prize. They have continued to collaborate on a
variety of projects since, principally video installation works and experimental film. Their
latest public commission, Local Time, is a sixty screen permanent installation in the
International arrivals terminal of Los Angeles airport.

His work has received many awards over the past years including the Glen Dimplex
award, the Irish American Art Award (both the under 35 and overall prize), the New
Langton Arts Award, and nominations at the Irish Film and Television Awards. His work
has been funded by the Irish Arts Council, the Irish Film Board, Culture Ireland, and the
New York Foundation for the Arts among others. He has received fellowships from the
MacDowell artist colony, the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, and the Atlantic Centre for
the Arts in the US.

In 2007 Paul along with Nicky Gogan and Maya Derrington founded the production
company Still Films. The company was established to make films that combined the
past work of the team in visual arts with the feature film format. The company
produces documentaries, artist films and experimental films. They have completed four
feature films in the past four years including Seaview, Pyjama Girls, The Rooms, and
Build Something Modern. Seaview, which Paul co-directed with Nicky Gogan, was
filmed in the former Butlin's holiday camp at Mosney, Ireland, which is now used as a
holding centre for asylum seekers. The film eschews the traditional talking heads
approach to documentary and instead uses the style of video installations to create a
portrait of this very particular place and the people who find themselves stuck there for
years on end. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and toured to many festivals
internationally, including Hot Docs, Sheffiled Doc/Fest, Silverdocs, and the DMZ doc festival
in Korea where it was awarded a special jury mention.
Seaview was also nominated for an IFTA (Irish FIlm and Television Award).

In 2010, Paul completed a feature length experimental film, The Rooms. Funded by a
Project Award from the Irish Arts Council, the film looks back at the ruins of the 20th
century and presents a world abandoned that somehow continues to operate. The film
had its premiere in the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and it's international premiere at the
Pompidou Centre in Paris.

Paul and Nicky recently completed their second collaborative feature
documentary, Build Something Modern, a Reel Art commission funded by the Irish Arts
Council. The film looks at the little known phenomenon of Irish architects designing
hundreds of modernist buildings in Africa in the 1960s and 70s, many of them never
traveling to supervise the work, but instead designing solely by correspondence. The
film premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival. Still Films have received slate
funding from the Irish Film Board, have been nominated for two Irish Film and
Television awards, and recently were awarded the Michael Dwyer Discovery Award
by the Dublin Films Critics Circle for their work.

Paul serves on the selection panel for the Bogliasco Foundation, has been a juror at the
Sheffield doc/fest and is Director of Programming for GAZE, the Dublin International
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.