M. Blash

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| birth_place = California, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|Film director|screenwriter|actor}}

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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),{{cite web|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/opening-ceremony-video-m-blash|work=Interview|date=August 26, 2009|title=Master of Ceremonies|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190620063203/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/opening-ceremony-video-m-blash|archive-date=June 20, 2019|access-date=June 20, 2019|url-status=live}} and the dramatic thriller The Wait (2013).

Biography

Blash was born in 1978 in southern California, and raised in Portland, Oregon.{{cite web|work=Deauville American Film Festival|title=M. Blash|url=https://www.festival-deauville.com/pid15/perso-7587/blash-m|language=French|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190620063248/https://www.festival-deauville.com/pid15/perso-7587/blash-m|archive-date=June 20, 2019}} He attended New York University and the School of Visual Arts, as well as Charles University in Prague.

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. The film premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/the-insider-m-blash/|work=The New York Times|title=The Insider: M. Blash|date=January 22, 2008|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190620071538/https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/the-insider-m-blash/|archive-date=June 20, 2019|access-date=June 20, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news| url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002539902 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070805224901/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002539902 | archivedate=August 5, 2007 | title=Rookie helmer slides into Fortnight | author=Thompson, Anne | date=May 22, 2006 |work=The Hollywood Reporter}} In 2007, he had a minor role in Gus van Sant's Paranoid Park.{{cite web|work=The Oregonian|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/visualarts/2009/01/impossible_instruments_at_four.html|title='Impossible Instruments' at Fourteen30 and 'Tension' at Bullseye Gallery|date=January 8, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190620071024/https://www.oregonlive.com/visualarts/2009/01/impossible_instruments_at_four.html|archive-date=June 20, 2019|access-date=June 20, 2019|url-status=live}} Blash directed the music video for "Money" by The Drums.{{Cite web|title=The Drums: Money|website=Nowness|date=July 25, 2011|url=https://www.nowness.com/story/the-drums-money|access-date=July 2, 2023|archive-date=June 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616200507/https://www.nowness.com/story/the-drums-money|url-status=live}}

Blash is also a visual artist, and has exhibited his drawings at the Bullseye Gallery in Portland. In 2008, a series of his drawings were published in The New York Times. His second film, the supernatural drama The Wait (2013), also starred Sevigny and Malone, as well as Luke Grimes and Josh Hamilton.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/movies/the-wait-directed-by-m-blash.html|work=The New York Times|title=A Study of Sublimated Grief|date=January 31, 2014|author=Catsoulis, Jeannette|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201162839/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/movies/the-wait-directed-by-m-blash.html|archive-date=February 1, 2014}}

Filmography

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scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Title ! scope="col" \| Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| Notes ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| {{Tooltip\|Ref.\|Reference}}
scope="row" \| 2006 \| Lying \| {{N/A}} \| Director and writer \| style="text-align:center;"\|
scope="row"\| 2007 \| Paranoid Park \| Math Teacher \| \| style="text-align:center;"\|
scope="row"\| 2008 \| Wendy and Lucy \| Dan \| \| style="text-align:center;"\|
scope="row"\| 2009 \| Sibling Topics (Section A) \| Porn Foreign Peopled \| \| style="text-align:center;"\|
scope="row"\| 2013 \| The Wait \| {{N/A}} \| Director and writer \| style="text-align:center;"\|{{cite web\|work=AllMovie\|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/m-blash-p474021\|title=M. Blash Filmography\|access-date=June 20, 2019}}
scope="row"\| 2016 \| Kitty \| Cop \| Short film \| style="text-align:center;"\|

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scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}

scope="row" | 2006

| Lying

| {{N/A}}

| Director and writer

| style="text-align:center;"|

scope="row"| 2007

| Paranoid Park

| Math Teacher

| style="text-align:center;"|

scope="row"| 2008

| Wendy and Lucy

| Dan

| style="text-align:center;"|

scope="row"| 2009

| Sibling Topics (Section A)

| Porn Foreign Peopled

| style="text-align:center;"|

scope="row"| 2013

| The Wait

| {{N/A}}

| Director and writer

| style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|work=AllMovie|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/m-blash-p474021|title=M. Blash Filmography|access-date=June 20, 2019}}

scope="row"| 2016

| Kitty

| Cop

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"|

References

External links

{{IMDb name|2100674}}

Category:1978 births

Category:Male actors from Portland, Oregon

Category:Artists from Portland, Oregon

Category:Writers from Portland, Oregon

Category:Film directors from Oregon

Category:Living people