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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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A REAL PAIN 14:00, 16:00, 20:50
CONCLAVE 13:10
MARIA 13.00 (OC), 18.10, 20.40
NICKEL BOYS 18.00
NOSFERATU (35MM & DIGITAL) 15.30 (35mm), 18.10 (35mm)
WE LIVE IN TIME 15.45, 20.55
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