M. Blash

American film director
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • actor

M. Blash (born 1978) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He has written and directed several independent films, including the improvisational drama Lying (2006),[2] and the dramatic thriller The Wait (2013).

Biography

Blash was born in 1978 in southern California, and raised in Portland, Oregon.[3] He attended New York University and the School of Visual Arts, as well as Charles University in Prague.[1]

His directorial debut, Lying (2006), was completed for a budget of $150,000 in upstate New York, and starred Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny, and Leelee Sobieski.[1] The film premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[4][5] In 2007, he had a minor role in Gus van Sant's Paranoid Park.[6] Blash directed the music video for "Money" by The Drums.[7]

Blash is also a visual artist, and has exhibited his drawings at the Bullseye Gallery in Portland.[6] In 2008, a series of his drawings were published in The New York Times.[4] His second film, the supernatural drama The Wait (2013), also starred Sevigny and Malone, as well as Luke Grimes and Josh Hamilton.[8]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2006 Lying — Director and writer [9]
2007 Paranoid Park Math Teacher [6]
2008 Wendy and Lucy Dan
2009 Sibling Topics (Section A) Porn Foreign Peopled
2013 The Wait — Director and writer [9]
2016 Kitty Cop Short film

References

  1. ^ a b c "M. Blash". FestivalScope. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  2. ^ "Master of Ceremonies". Interview. August 26, 2009. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  3. ^ "M. Blash". Deauville American Film Festival (in French). Archived from the original on June 20, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "The Insider: M. Blash". The New York Times. January 22, 2008. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  5. ^ Thompson, Anne (May 22, 2006). "Rookie helmer slides into Fortnight". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 5, 2007.
  6. ^ a b c "'Impossible Instruments' at Fourteen30 and 'Tension' at Bullseye Gallery". The Oregonian. January 8, 2009. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  7. ^ "The Drums: Money". Nowness. July 25, 2011. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
  8. ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette (January 31, 2014). "A Study of Sublimated Grief". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014.
  9. ^ a b "M. Blash Filmography". AllMovie. Retrieved June 20, 2019.

External links

  • M. Blash at IMDb