Jim Blashfield
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Jim Blashfield (born September 4, 1944 in Seattle, Washington) is an American filmmaker and media artist, best known for his short films such as Suspicious Circumstances and his music videos in the late 1980s and early 1990s for Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Nu Shooz, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears and Marc Cohn.
More recently he has collaborated with Bill Frisell, the Oregon Symphony and Weird Al Yankovic.
Blashfield is the recipient of a Cannes Golden Lion, a Grammy Award, an Emmy nomination and several MTV nominations and awards. Other recent films include SuctionMaster and The Tasseled Loafers, an irreverent interpretation of Hector Berlioz' "Dream of a Witch's Sabbath" with music by the Czech Philharmonic. Recent multi-image installations include Brightwater (a work in progress), Running Dog with Cactus, and The Resurrectory, a collaboration with the Liminal Performance Group.
