He may not be a household name, but the impact of Nigel Buesst as a maker, chronicler and educator in Australian filmmaking was profound.
Nigel Buesst – film festival programmer, film school educator and, as an independent filmmaker, a key figure in the so-called “Carlton Ripple” of the 1960s and ’70s – has died, aged 86.
Alan Finney, who was for decades one of the most powerful players in Australian film marketing and distribution, recalls Buesst “encouraged commitment to local production and always encouraged all of us to ‘take a risk’ and get our stories up on local screens, which is what he did, even though that was difficult in those days. We would not have a healthy film production industry and culture had it not been for Nigel Buesst.
He was for five years in the 1980s the director of the St Kilda Film Festival, and for a dozen years he taught film to a generation of up-and-comers, including Richard Lowenstein (“He had his own style going on as a teacher: meandering, very cynical, with a lot of deadpan humour,” recalls Wright.
“Like jazz, another of my passions, there was unity in discord,” he said, in reference to some of the movies covered in. “Emerging from their apparently aimless meanderings came an essential truthfulness, a revelation of how things are.”Film historian Ross Campbell remembered how the “much-loved” filmmaker and lecturer earlier this year hosted screenings “on his still-operating 16mm Steenbeck editing machine” for a couple of his old filmmaking colleagues.
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