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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’.
Season pass available: all 5 programmes available for €50. Available from the IFI Box Office or over the phone at 01 679 5744.
BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY 16:00
EAFFI DISCOVERIES – GREEN WAVE 18.20
HOLY COW 13:50
MOTEL DESTINO 13:10, 20:45
PARTHENOPE 15:40
RIEFENSTAHL 18:10
THE PENGUIN LESSONS 15:50
THE RETURN 20:35
THE WEDDING BANQUET 13:20, 18:30, 20:50
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