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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 COMPLETE UNKNOWN 20:25
BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY 13:50
BRIEF ENCOUNTER (80TH ANNIVERSARY) 16:00
FROM THE VAULTS – THE COUNTRY GIRLS 18.30
I’M STILL HERE (PREVIEWS FROM FEBRUARY 14TH) 18:00
MEMOIR OF A SNAIL 13:30, 18:00
THE BRUTALIST (70MM) 13:40
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG 20:00
TO A LAND UNKOWN 15.40, 20.50
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