Amateur filmmaker Flora Kerrigan was a keen member of the Cork Cine Society in the late 1950s and 1960s. Over eight years, she crafted remarkable animation and live-action shorts on 8mm film, earning international accolades and an airing on RTÉ. The surreal playfulness of her animations belies the painstaking meticulousness of their production, while her live-action films, featuring friends and family, are absurd, comedic, haunting and, most strikingly, explore female sexuality and desire. Following her relocation to the UK in the late 1960s, Kerrigan’s work faded into obscurity until it was recently rediscovered through a collaboration between the IFI Irish Film Archive and Maynooth University.

The films will be accompanied by renowned avant-garde free-improvisational pianist Paul G. Smyth and double bass virtuoso John Edwards.

Restored with support from ACE – Association des Cinémathèques Européennes and the EU Creative Europe MEDIA programme.