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DEBUT:
Early works by established practitoners.

PROGRAMME 1: WHEELS

In this, his directorial debut, Cathal Black (Pigs, 1984 and Learning Gravity, 2007) is first drawn to the work of John McGahern, a landscape he revisits in his feature-length film Korea (1995). In Wheels, a small farmer’s son (Brendan Ellis) who is working in Dublin returns to the midlands to visit his father and stepmother in the fraught, stultifying atmosphere of his birthplace.

FILM INFO: 21 minutes, Ireland, 1976, Colour, Digi-beta

PROGRAMME 2: NACH AOIBHEANN BHEITH BHEO

In this dramatised road safety film, dreams of a young couple (a first screen appearance for Sinead Cusack and Des Cave) for a fun-filled life are dashed following a motorbike accident. Directed by George Morrisson, with a finger-clicking score from Darby Carroll and the Ravens Showband.

FILM INFO: 11 minutes, Ireland, 1966, Digi-beta