Paul is a filmmaker and visual artist.  His projects have received numerous awards from the Irish Arts Council since 1997, and he has made over 25 shorts films and video installations over the last ten years. His first feature film As Láthair, which examines colonial histories through re-working of the western genre, was completed in 2002. His critically acclaimed feature documentary Seaview, which he co-directed with Nicky Gogan, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and has toured festivals internationally since. Seaview was nominated for an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) and received a special Jury mention at DMZ DOCS in Korea.

Paul just recently completed a new feature film The Rooms with support of an Arts Council Project grant. Filmed in Italy, Germany, Spain, the United States and Korea, the film is a visually complex study of a world abandoned that somehow continues to operate.

Paul recently finished installing a 60 screen permanent video installation in the international terminal at LAX airport, a commission by the City of Los Angeles. He is currently in production on a new feature doc Build Something Modern, commissioned by the Irish Arts Council and the Dublin International Film Festival. The film, co-directed with Nicky Gogan, examines the peculiar history of Irish architects exporting hundreds of modernist designs for structures to be built in Africa in the early 1960’s.

Dividing his time between Dublin and New York, he has worked as an editor with The Criterion Collection in New York, the foremost distributor of foreign and art-house cinema on DVD in the United States. Recently completed projects include a half hour documentary on Michelangelo Antonioni’s L'Eclisse, Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood, and an hour long piece on Werner Herzog. He also worked for several years as a post producer on campaigns for many of the major US networks, including HBO, Showtime, ABC, and In Demand.

His early short film Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1999. In 2000, in collaboration with American artist David Phillips, he won the Glen Dimplex Artists’ award, which is the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s annual prize for contemporary art. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards, in both the under 35 category and the overall prize.