{{short description|British writer and filmmaker|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox writer |name = Graham Bendel |image = GRAY BIFA.jpg |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|12|30|df=yes}} |birth_place = Middlesex, England |occupation = {{hlist|Author|journalist|filmmaker}} |genre = Literary fiction }}
'''Graham Bendel''' is a British writer and filmmaker. He has written for ''The Big Issue'', ''New Statesman'',<ref>[http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/graham_bendel "Articles by Graham Bendel"], ''New Statesman.'' {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061121164325/http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/graham_bendel|date=2006-11-21}}</ref> ''Hotdog'' and ''Prospect''.<ref>[http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2001/12/artcriticismlite/ Art criticism lite"], ''Prospect'', 20 December 2011. {{Archive url|url=https://archive.today/20120907191911/http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/artcriticismlite/|date=2012-09-07}}</ref>
==Films== In 2005, he directed the documentary ''Billy Childish Is Dead'', which was nominated for a British Independent Film Award and has been shown in Oslo, Montreal, Croatia, London and New York.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} Bendel has been described by Dazed and Confused as both "multi-talented" & a "creative crackerjack" and in 2019 completed a well-received documentary on Martin Newell & The Cleaners from Venus, which has so far played to several packed audiences in London, New York & Colchester. Bendel describes this film as the Third in his Lo-Fi trilogy of "rugged individuals".
Previous to this, Bendel made an independent documentary about Vic Godard and Subway Sect called Derailed Sense (featuring appearances from Luke Haines and Irvine Welsh).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2378856/|title=Derailed Sense: A Film About Vic Godard & Subway Sect (2012)|website=IMDb |publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/derailed-sense-a-film-about-vic-godard-and-subway-sect/|title=Derailed Sense: A Film About Vic Godard and Subway Sect - Regent Street Cinema|publisher=}}</ref> It was shown at the BFI<ref>{{cite web |title=From punk to postman with Vic Godard (2015) |url=https://www.huckmag.com/article/subway-sect-graham-bendel |website=Huckmag.com |publisher=Huck Magazine |access-date=24 February 2026}}</ref>, Hackney Picturehouse and venues in Scotland.
==Literature== His debut novel is called ''A Nasty Piece Of Work'', published by Fortune Teller Press. ''A Nasty Piece Of Work'' - "a quirky and highly original psychological thriller" - was published in a small initial quantity, featuring the artwork of writer Clive Barker.
His second novel, published by Fortune Teller Press in 2015, is called ''Dress Rehearsal Brags: An A-Z of Unpopular Culture''. It is an encyclopedic examination of an everyman's life, traversing the 80s and 90s and including many instances of 'alternative culture'. The book has been reviewed by [https://louderthanwar.com/dress-rehearsal-brags-an-a-z-of-unpopular-culture-by-graham-bendel-author-interview/ Louder Than War] and [https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/print/best-new-books-month/ Huck Magazine.]
Bendel's third novel, published in 2021, is called ''The Comforter & other Rose-Tinted Struggles''. This is also published by Fortune Teller Press.
==Poetry & other writing== Bendel is the editor of two volumes of ''Poems For The Retired Nihilist'', published by Fortune Teller Press. It was featured on "the must list" of ''The Guardian'' on 2 September 2005.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/sep/02/2 "The must list"], ''The Guardian'', 2 September 2005</ref>
==Awards== Bendel's first film, Billy Childish is Dead, was nominated for a British Independent Film Award in 2005.
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[http://www.fortunetellerpress.com/artists_bendel.html Graham Bendel at Fortune Teller Press]
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