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Director
Laura McGann
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Producer: Aisling Ahmed
Category
DocumentaryShort
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 and easy pace of this method is fondly remembered even as the modernisation of Irish shopping is acknowledged and welcomed. Mixing a wealth of amateur footage and interviews with reminiscing shoppers, The End of the Counter doubles as both nostalgia and history, making a record of way of living made redundant by the passage of time.
13 minutes, Ireland, 2012, Colour
A NEW HOLLYWOOD SEASON: MOMMIE DEAREST 14.30
BACKROOMS 14.00
BOOGIE NIGHTS (4K RESTORATION) 20.00
CACTUS PEARS 11.20, 20.50
DISCLOSURE DAY (70mm) 11.30, 17.20, 20.25
NINO 13.30, 18.40
OBSESSION 16.20
STRICTLY BALLROOM (4K RESTORATION) 15.40, 17.50
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council