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Joe Comerford has worked as an independent director in Ireland for over 50 years producing work that is distinguished by its cinematic subversion and social commentary, with a trademark twinning of film narrative and visual-aural abstraction. His films focus on socially-marginalised characters –destitute men, drug users, aimless youths, Travellers, prisoners and women in the midst of crisis pregnancies. His two cinema features Reefer and the Model (1988), a comedy-crime thriller and High Boot Benny (1993), a drama set against the backdrop of the Troubles, are both shot through with his distinctive political and social analysis. Alternating between feature films with a narrative bias, and shorts which tend towards abstract painted imagery, Comerford has declared that his longer-term objective is to tell a story by combining the two strands into a ‘painted feature’.
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: GAEILGE ABÚ! (PROGRAMME 1) 13.10
BÁITE 18.00
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU 15.35
IRISH FOCUS: A VISUAL STORM 18.30
SIRĀT 12.55
SOUND OF FALLING 15.20, 20.10
THE BRIDE! 12.55, 20.30
THE SECRET AGENT 17.00, 20.05
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 14.00 (OC)
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