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Director
Joe Comerford
Credits
Producer: Joe Comerford. Writer: Joe Comerford
Principal Cast
Joe Savino
Category
ShortExperimental
RoadSide, Comerford’s first digital short, is a veritable assault on its audience – an audacious blur of ugliness and beauty. Mixing found footage from personal archives and his own unfinished short, Rough Touch, it outlines the brief encounter between a man on parole driving a stolen car back to prison and a woman hitchhiker. This simple action provides the narrative core while sensuous visual and sound abstractions replicate the man’s subjectivity. An unsettling prison-cell hanging scene brackets the film, unbalancing the viewer, and underscoring unpleasant undertones of self-destruction, non-communication, the faltering of memory and its effect on history.
Following test screenings, Comerford developed the project into an installation, The RoadSide Film Sculpture (2012). He describes this new form of film exhibition as “entering a space that does not exist, to see a work that is extreme cinema…an attempt to suspend pain, within beauty.”
Notes by Eugene Finn.
12 minutes, Ireland, 2003, Colour
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:55
BALTIMORE 18:30
IO CAPITANO 13:20
JEANNE DU BARRY 13:10, 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 13:30
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 15:40, 20:45
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN Q&A (PREVIEW) 18.30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 20:40
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16:10
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