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Joe Comerford has worked as an independent director in Ireland for over 50 years producing work that is distinguished by its cinematic subversion and social commentary, with a trademark twinning of film narrative and visual-aural abstraction. His films focus on socially-marginalised characters –destitute men, drug users, aimless youths, Travellers, prisoners and women in the midst of crisis pregnancies. His two cinema features Reefer and the Model (1988), a comedy-crime thriller and High Boot Benny (1993), a drama set against the backdrop of the Troubles, are both shot through with his distinctive political and social analysis. Alternating between feature films with a narrative bias, and shorts which tend towards abstract painted imagery, Comerford has declared that his longer-term objective is to tell a story by combining the two strands into a ‘painted feature’.
Season pass available: all 5 programmes available for €50. Available from the IFI Box Office or over the phone at 01 679 5744.
AKIRA (4K RESTORATION) 18.00
ALAN GILSENAN: UNLESS 18.30
AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY) 15.15
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MISSIONS IMPOSSIBLE (PROGRAMME 2) 13.00
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER 12.55, 20.40
REBUILDING 13.50, 20.35
THE BLUE TRAIL 18.40
THE DRAMA 13.10, 20.50
THE STRANGER 16.00
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN 15.30
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