HIGH BOOT BENNY

How to maintain neutrality in the face of raging violence is explored in this powerful feature. Benny (Marc O’Shea) is a teenage outsider sent to a school in the Republic to escape the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The school’s matron (Frances Tomelty) is sympathetic towards Benny but cannot protect him when the IRA suspects him of being an informer.

80 mins, Ireland, 1993, Digital

ROADSIDE

RoadSide, Comerford’s first digital short which evolved into an installation, is an audacious blur of ugliness and beauty. Drawing on found footage from personal archives, it outlines an encounter between a man and a woman in a stolen car.

12 mins, Ireland, 2008, Digital

Notes by Eugene Finn

Screening as part of the Joe Comerford retrospective.