Faculty Bio

Pat Murphy Department of Graduate Film Tisch Asia Office: Room 04-03

Education

BA Fine Art. Hornsey College of Art, London. MA. Film & Television. Royal College of Art, London. Whitney Musuem of American Art Independent Study Program.

Biography

Pat Murphy’s first feature, “Maeve” won the Best Irish Film Award at the Cork Film Festival in 1981 and was shown in Venice that same year. Her second feature “Anne Devlin”, starring Brid Brennan, was made in 1983 and represented Ireland at a number of festivals. “Nora”, a major international co-production, starring Ewan McGregor and Susan Lynch, was completed in 2000. All three films have screened at festivals, been released internationally and have been broadcast on television.

In addition to writing, directing and co-producing her films, Pat has been active in other areas. Her film and performance installation “The Muybridge Solo” was presented at Vehicule Art Inc. Montreal. In 1992, she was commissioned to make a film installation for the Strokestown Famine Museum. In 1994 and 1997 she collaborated with the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Irish Film Centre in curating film and seminar programmes for the major exhibitions “From Beyond the Pale” and “The Event Horizon.” In 2003, she completed a documentary about disability issues “This is us we’re talking about….”.
Pat has a BA in Fine Art from Hornsey College of Art and a MA in Film and Television from the Royal College of Art. Her short graduate film “Rituals of Memory” was shown as part of the groundbreaking Hayward Gallery Exhibition “Film As Film.” Between 1977-78 she had a scholarship to the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.

Pat was a founder Board Member of both FILM BASE and the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland. In 2003, she was elected to Aosdana, an association of artists whose work is recognized as having made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.