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Director
Orla Walsh
Credits
Producer: Paul Donovan. Writer: Orla Walsh
Principal Cast
Magael MacLaughlin, Ger Carey, Brendan Laird
Category
ShortF-Rated
Political violence in Northern Ireland provides the setting for this provocative short film from Orla Walsh which tackles women’s experiences of both state and republican violence. Sheila (Magael Mclaughlin) travels to the notorious Maze Prison to meet her imprisoned husband Sean (Ger Carey), thinking about both Ger’s arrest and her current pregnancy as she does so. Made in a similar vein to Pat Murphy’s Maeve or Margo Harkin’s Hush-a-Bye Baby, The Visit is another example of the vital energy that coursed through the Northern Irish women’s movement.
22 minutes, Ireland, 1992, Colour
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MCGAHERN: SHORT STORIES (DOUBLE BILL) 13.20
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY 11:00, 20:10
IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: BEYOND THE AGGRESSIVES: 25 YEARS LATER 20.30
IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: BUTCHES AND BOYS 18.15
IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: OUTITUDE 13.30
IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: SCANNÁIN SAPPHIC (IRISH LESBIAN SHORTS) 15.30
KIDNAPPED 14:30
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 16:10, 20:50
PERFECT DAYS 17:20
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.30, 13.50, 18.30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 11.20
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