Ian Emes

Ian Emes 2005
Ian Emes
Born Ian Ronald Emes
(1949-08-17) 17 August 1949
Birmingham, England
Nationality British
Awards
  • British Academy Award (3)
  • Palme d'Or Award
  • Oscar nomination
Website ianemes.com
Patron(s) Pink Floyd

Ian Ronald Emes (born 17 August 1949); is a British artist and film director.  He is known for using innovative and experimental film techniques, and as Pink Floyd’s original animator.[1]

Emes’ animations have featured in major exhibitions, including Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains at the V&A (2017)[2] and the National Film Theatre Retrospective (1980).  His works have also been used in live music tours, such as Roger Waters Us + Them (2017), David Gilmour Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2016) and Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells Tour (1978). He is the winner of three BAFTA Awards (1994, 2009, 2011), a Palme d’Or (1979), a British Animation Award (2014), and is an Emmy Award (2017) and Oscar Academy Award (1984) nominee.

Career

Early Career

After training at Birmingham College of Art, Emes’ career began as a painter, sculptor, and kinetic artist[3].  In 1972 his experimental animated film French Windows[4] (set to Pink Floyd’s One of These Days) was shown on the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test, bringing him to the attention of Rick Wright and subsequently Pink Floyd.[5]

Pink Floyd

Emes became the first filmmaker to create synchronized moving images for Pink Floyd.  He laid the foundation for the band’s future visuals and still remains influential to this day[6], his graphic style evident in the large-scale digital animations used in Roger Waters’ The Wall concert projections.

In 1974, the band commissioned animations of Speak to Me, (the cardiogram and prism) Time (the flying clocks) and On the Run (twin towers explosion) by Emes to visualise The Dark Side of the Moon.[2]

His work is featured in the Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains exhibition,[2] the first international retrospective of the band.  Presented by the V&A, Pink Floyd and Iconic Entertainment Studios.

Animation

During the late seventies, Emes created film sequences for numerous other musicians, including Tubular Bells for Mike Oldfield and The Oriental Nightfish for Paul and Linda McCartney,[3] which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.  His Camden studio became world famous for its ground-breaking visuals and in 1980 Emes was cited as Britain’s foremost animator, his achievements celebrated in a Retrospective at the National Film Theatre (1980).  Collaborations with musicians continued, notably, The Chauffeur for Duran Duran starring Peri Lister, and The Wall – Live in Berlin (1990), which was Roger Waters' first solo performance of the album, attended by the then largest concert audience of all time[7]. The interpretive film by Emes starred Rupert Everett, Ute Lemper and Marianne Faithful, and included sequences of the Marching Hammers projected onto the remains of the Berlin Wall.

Film & Television

Concurrently Emes diversified into live-action, writing and directing short films, amongst them the ballroom dancing comedy Goodie Two Shoes (1983), produced by Jeff Katzenberg then of Paramount Pictures, for which Emes received an Oscar Nomination and a BAFTA Award.[8]

A career in film and television followed, including the series How to Be Cool starring Roger Daltrey, adapted by Emes from the book by Phillip Pullman (The Golden Compass author), Streetwise starring Andy Serkis (1989) and The Invisible Man (2000) for Universal Studios. [9]

In 1987 Emes wrote and directed his feature debut Knights & Emeralds, produced by Sir David Puttnam for Goldcrest Films and Warner Brothers.[10] Television movies include the cult film The Yob (1987) for The Comic Strip starring Keith Allen,[11] The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas[12] produced by John Landis and the critically acclaimed Deadly Summer (1997). 

In the mid-nineties, Emes became an in-house director for Ridley Scott at Ridley Scott Associates.[13]

Exhibitions

Tours

Filmography

Awards and Nominations

Personal Life

Ian Emes was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England.  He was educated at Marsh Hill Boys Technical School in Birmingham's Erdington district and then studied at Birmingham College of Art. He now lives in London. 

References

  1. ↑ "Birmingham School of Art : Ian Emes". www.bcu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  2. 1 2 3 "Pink Floyd V&A Exhibition: Nick Mason Discusses The Iconic Items Set For 'Their Mortal Remains'". NME. 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  3. 1 2 "Birmingham School of Art : Ian Emes". www.bcu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  4. ↑ Pink Floyd: One of These Days (1972), retrieved 2017-06-28
  5. ↑ Young, Graham (2013-12-06). "The young artist from Birmingham who was ahead of his time". birminghampost. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  6. ↑ "The Essential Pink Floyd: Movies, Music Videos, Concert Animation And More". Decider | Where To Stream Movies & Shows on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant, HBO Go. 2014-11-13. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  7. ↑ Kirschbaum, Erik (2014-11-07). "Rocking the Wall -- The Berlin Concert that Changed the World". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  8. ↑ Goodie-Two-Shoes (1984), retrieved 2017-06-28
  9. ↑ The Invisible Man (TV Series 2000–2002), retrieved 2017-06-28
  10. ↑ Knights & Emeralds (1986), retrieved 2017-06-28
  11. ↑ "The Comic Strip Presents..." The Yob (TV Episode 1988), retrieved 2017-06-28
  12. ↑ The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas (TV Movie 1996), retrieved 2017-06-28
  13. ↑ "Birmingham School of Art : Ian Emes". www.bcu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
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