Projects in genres: Experimental

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I Could Read the Sky a film about music, madness memory, love and loss, a haunting story of immigration. I Could Read the Sky is adapted from the photographic novel of the same name which has been recently published to rave reviews and explores the sense of identity, loss and exile. It is the moving story of an old man living in a bedsit in London, remembering his life, growing up on the West coast of Ireland and his journey to London. The film unravels the strange twisting drama of a working man's life. It moves from a decaying rural past to a vividly modern present, driven by a dynamic music soundtrack that draws from both, and a simple flowing lyrical story telling. It is the state of memory that the film evokes, not memory as re-enactment but as texture. The film gets to the essence of how we remember. Memory as fragments, as details and layers, memory that comes at you out of the dark. From behind closed eyes, with its abstractions of light and form and sudden moments of precise clarity, taking us on an inward, visually extraordinary labyrinthine journey to the film's end. The film stars the acclaimed Irish writer Dermot Healy and includes cameos from actors Maria Doyle Kennedy, Brendan Coyle and Stephen Rea, writer Pat McCabe (Butcher Boy) and the author Timothy O'Grady and photographer Steve Pyke.

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In King Hayle I the camera navigates around a statue of Emperor Haile Sellassie I, acting as a pivotal device to which spectators visually anchor themselves. King Hayle I is an attempt at repairing the umbilical cord between the praxis of art, life and spirituality . . .

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In a winter wonderland with Deanna Durbin and the queen of the snow. A fairytale for the future, this perfectly pitched monochrome affection will have you yearning with immaculate desire.

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In the bleak midwinter, maverick Mulloy is back with a Christmas card for the crisis. Fish with a mission, no room at the chippy, beasts of burden. Melancholy millennium. What other kind is there?

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A woman travels both physically and literally in an interior space of several rooms. The film explores the space between self present cohesion and split subjectivity. The fantastical merges with claustrophobic domestical ritual.

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With Thatcher our narrator we take a fast-forward ride through the high-rise 80’s and the lottery-led 90’s in a pop promo for the punk in us all. Money might be too tight to mention, but things can only get better, can’t they?

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Written on the body, a pixillated pillow book of all flesh, this film questions adornment through rhythm and ritual, dream and suggestion, asking why? Sex, territory or cellular expression?

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You’d be crazy for feeling so lonely … From scrapbook bodies to outlines filled with light, there’s collage in the chaos and dance tunes in the abstract visual music. Take two…

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A trinity of dying, as hand exposure of film, drawing, live action and stop-motion conspire to probe the mystery of the final moments. Potent and disquieting as it seeks answers to the great question.

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A mother follows Death through a hostile winter landscape to win back her child, giving up her eyes and her hair on the way. Ruth Lingford's woodcut-like animation, drawn on an Amiga home computer, adapts Hans Christian Andersen's The Story of a Mother.

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Watch out: if you insist on saying "I'm not a Feminist, but...", then you may well find yourself pushing the old man over the edge or behind the sofa, as the case may be. Adapted from the cartoons and drawings of Christine Roche.

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The big issues addressed in an abstract animation ripe with optically manipulated hand-painted film. Employing the associative logic of dream it creates a dazzling reverie of colour and pattern.