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Emtigon

Joe Comerford, 10mins, 1971

Joe Comerford’s first film involves a process that informs all of his other work.  The combination of “elements of narrative with abstraction”. A pitch-black Beckett-like vaudeville of impotence and aggression, Emtigon tragicomically details a homeless old man’s covert intrusion on a…

The End of the Counter

Laura McGann, 13 minutes, 2012

A warm look on how Irish people once shopped, this documentary short recalls the history of ‘over-the-counter’ shops. In these, all goods were kept behind a counter and the shopper would wait whilst the owner filled their order; the conversation…

Equal

Gillian Callan, 13 minutes, 2019

In a small corner of the UK, a battle is being waged. A battle for love. A battle to be EQUAL.

The Erlking

C. Whiteside, M. Graham, 16 minutes, 2017

A couple's burgeoning love becomes twisted by a malevolent entity.

Essential Killing

Jerzy Skolimowski, 83 minutes, 2010

The film follows the story of Mohammed, who is captured by the US military in Afghanistan and transported to a secret military black site. When the army convoy he is riding in plummets off a steep hill, Mohammed finds himself…

Evergreen

Dominic Curran, 16 minutes, 2019

Nathan begrudgingly visits his infirm childhood friend Edgar, but their lives have diverged beyond any personal history.

Everything Alive is in Movement

Linda Curtin, 10 minutes, 2017

The power of the female spirit to transcend and transform the human body.

Everything Looks Better in the Sunshine

Mark Smyth,
Jonathan Farrelly, 13 minutes, 2020

Patsy, the traffic warden, after getting clipped by a pushbike while crossing the road, must ‘follow his nose’ to find the girl of his dreams who hit him.

Experimental Conversations

Fergus Daly, 98 minutes, 2007

Featuring a host of well-known filmmakers and critics including Nicole Brenez, Philippe Grandrieux and FJ Ossang (in France) and Irish contributors Maeve Connolly, Grace Weir, Clare Langan, Gerard Byrne, Vivienne Dick, and Maximilian Le Cain, Experimental Conversations draws links between…

Exposure

Kieran Hickey, 48 minutes, 1978

A socially dissident drama from director Kieran Hickey, Exposure is a courageous assault on a smothering cultural conservatism prevalent in Ireland in the 1980s. Three surveyors – married men Dan (T.P. McKenna) and Eugene (Bosco Hogan) and single man Oliver…

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