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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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ABOUT DRY GRASSES 13:00, 19:15
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (PROGRAMME 2) 12.50
CROSSING 13:45, 18:20
I SAW THE TV GLOW 16.00, 20.40
KINDS OF KINDNESS 15:10
NOTES FROM SHEEPLAND 13:15, 18:30 (+Q&A)
SHAYDA
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 16:50
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 20:45
WILD STRAWBERRIES: DRIVING MADELEINE 11.00
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