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Dwelling

Leon Butler,
Peter Power, 2024

Dwelling is a performance work that blends the real and digital world, questioning our relationship with technology, creating imperceptible, poetic worlds that allow the audience to experience the lives of others.

Early Days

Nessa Wrafter, 12 minutes, 2017

A new mother finds that having a baby causes her post-natal anxiety and intrusive thoughts.

Earthly Bonds

Alan Dunne, 16 minutes, 2017

An imaginative girl tries o create a spaceship after he loss of her Mother, while her grieving father descends into alcoholism.

Earthy Encounters

Sam Johnson, 25 minutes, 2017

15-year-old garden centre worker Kyle battles shadowy agents so he can save his dying older brother with a special plant.

Eggs and Soldiers

Imelda O'Reilly, 22 minutes, 2016

A single Irish Dad forgets the tree on Christmas Eve. Ned the older brother's humanity is challenged when he risks everything to have his younger brother Marco experience a real Irish Christmas. Awards: Best Screenplay, Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film…

El Hor

Dianne Lucille Campbell, 14 minutes, 2018

Through the interspecies gaze we observe the of the most ancient and highly honoured dog breeds, the Saluki. Guiding us in love, preparing us in death and transforming us in life.

El Toro

Tomás Seoighe, 14 minutes, 2012

This Irish language short looks to traditional Spanish culture as it tells a winning story of a boy finding solace in an unexpected place. Unable to connect with father (Peadar Cox), lonely schoolboy Cian (Domhnall Ó Braonáin) discovers comfort in…

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…

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