Menu
Director
Joe Comerford
Credits
Electronic Music: Roger Doyle Script and Direction: Joe Comerford
Principal Cast
Danny O'Connor, Carolyn Tipping
Category
ShortExperimental
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 young woman social worker.
Claustrophobic framing and cutting refuses the viewer an easy interpretation or even a comfortable point of view but the abstractions hint and nudge at possible meanings. An associational montage of images from World War I suggests a collective memory that might somehow underlie the protagonist’s behavior.
The final image of a stolen house-key dropped into dark canal waters is emblematic of this filmmaker’s opaque, poetic narratives.
Notes by Eugene Finn
10mins, Ireland, 1971
1917 13.00, 15.45, 20.50
A HIDDEN LIFE 15.15
BOMBSHELL 13.00, 18.30
LITTLE WOMEN 15.20
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD 13.10, 18.10, 20.40
UNCUT GEMS 20.35
WAVES 18.00
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council