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Director
Maya Derrington
Credits
Producer: Nicky Gogan
Category
Documentary
Pyjama Girls principally focuses on the lives of two charismatic inner-city Dublin teens, Lauren and Tara, as they roam the streets, sporting nightwear for daywear; a curious cultural (and purely female) phenomenon currently spreading the globe. In a series of intimate vignettes, we gain a vivid insight into their daily lives: the girls' tenacity amidst the at times grim uncertainty that surrounds them and the oft-quotable bravado that rolls with it. Director Maya Derrington's emphatic feature debut is one of many inspired home-grown feature documentaries to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Crisply edited by Paul Rowley and featuring a delicious minimalist electronic score from Dennis McNulty, Derrington's triumph is to craft a keenly observed tour-de-force that, in the grand tradition of all great non-fiction cinema, challenges our way of seeing.
Notes by Derek O'Connor.
70 minutes, Ireland, 2010, Colour
BLUE MOON 14.00, 20.50
BUGONIA 15.50 (35mm)
DIE MY LOVE 20.30
HORSESHOE 16.00, 18.30 (+ Q&A)
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 13.30, 18.10
L’ATALANTE 16.10
PILLION 13.40, 20.40
SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE) 18.20
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council