Irish Film Institute -IRELAND ON SUNDAY: HAPPINESS AND FEAR

IRELAND ON SUNDAY: HAPPINESS AND FEAR

Director: CONOR HORGAN


This film screened 18th January 2010.

Ireland on Sunday, our monthly showcase for new Irish film.This programme presents two half-hour experimental shorts, one about happiness and one about fear. In each, director Conor Horgan presents a captivatingly broad range of responses to a simple, but profound question which touches on the essence of human experience. ?

HAPPINESS – Here pensioners, youths, evangelists, drag queens, homeless people, recovering addicts, Sunday shoppers and many other people around the country answer the question ‘What makes you happy?’ 27 minutes, 2005

FEAR – A companion piece to Happiness, in which Buddhists, advertising executives, farmers and fashion designers are some of the many people who answer the question ‘What are you most afraid of?’ 24 minutes, 2009

Director Conor Horgan will participate in a post-screening Q&A.

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