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Nigel Buesst (born 30 April 1938) is an Australian filmmaker from Melbourne.[1] After graduating B.Com in 1960 from Melbourne University he headed overseas to London and worked as an assistant editor at Shepperton Studios.[2]
On returning to Melbourne in 1962 he worked for some months at the ABC's Ripponlea newsroom,[1] 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" [3] he began teaching at the Swinburne University of Technology (1970-1984) [2] 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.[4]
Buesst has been described as "a living legend of Melbourne's film scene" [5] and was a figure in the "Carlton wave" of Australian filmmaking.[6]
DIRECTOR on all titles, unless otherwise noted.
- Fun Radio (1963)
- Dancing Class (Dir: Tom Cowan 1964) – photography
- The Twentieth (1966)
- The Making of a Gallery, NGV (1967) – photography
- The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor (1969)
- Nothing Like Experience (1970) – photography
- Bonjour Balwyn (1970)
- Dead Easy (1970)
- Destruction of St Patrick's College (1971)
- Come Out Fighting (1973)
- Jacka VC (Dir: Ross Cooper 1977) – photography
- Glenn's Story (Dir: Arnold Zable 1979) – photography
- Jazz Scrapbook (1983) [7]
- Compo (1989)
- Benny Featherstone (Prince Good Fellows) (1996) [8]
- Black Sheep Gather No Moss (1997)
- The Loved One - Gerry Humphrys (2000)
- Talking With Ade (2000) [9]
- Carlton + Godard = Cinema (2003) [10]
- Darwin Harbour (2010)
- Ballarat Jazz Convention (2015)
- Point Lonsdale Plaque Unveiling (2018) – editor
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