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Moonshine

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‘The story of the race for space, and what happens when the space gets overcrowded.’ (Flora Kerrigan)  Bombs, rockets, a hammer and sickle, the USA flag and Laika the dog race around the moon in this powerful stop-motion animation depicting the Space Race during the Cold War. Moonshine belies Kerrigan’s political interests and demonstrates the […]

Off Beat

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‘This is the story of a character who had delusions of frustration. If you can follow this film, you must be a psychotic!!’ – Flora Kerrigan  A stop-motion animation featuring meticulously crafted paper cutouts, which became a trademark of Kerrigan’s approach. Loose representations of male and female figures dance around the frame in a dramatic […]

Early Animations

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Early Animations is a compilation of short animated films created by Flora Kerrigan at the outset of her career. Playful techniques are employed to investigate the intricacies of human anatomy and movement. Chalkboard drawings, dancing puppets and stop-motion paper cut-outs feature as the filmmaker hones her craft and begins to explore the art of filmmaking.   […]

The Seventh Day (with musical accompaniment)

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The Seventh Day is a stop-motion animation depicting the dawn of time and the gradual evolution of the concept of time, through images of hourglasses, clock faces and time-based mechanisms like cogs and pulleys. Eventually, time becomes so omnipotent that humans become enslaved to its demands, acting as time-based mechanisms themselves, harassed and harried across […]

Cold Feet

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‘A footprint cartoon, in three parts, about a girl who got cold feet!!!’ (Flora Kerrigan)  The highs and lows of navigating romantic ventures are joyfully explored through a three-part play of stop-motion cut-outs.   Cold Feet is part of Flora Kerrigan: Dream Maker on the IFI Archive Player. To view more of the collection, please click […]

Epitaph

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‘How it feels to be dead! The senses are explored, one by one. Though dead, the spirit lives on; the ideas and ideals of a man live forever. The beginning is the end, and the end is just the beginning.’ (Flora Kerrigan)  Meticulously crafted, paper cut-outs of coffins, headstones, eyes, candles, crosses, and psychedelic backgrounds […]

Fifty Percent Grey

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A bloodied soldier, Sergeant Cray, wakes from death to a desolate landscape furnished only with a series of televisions and video players. Armed with his gun, he trudges from one TV to the next where he encounters a series of upbeat messages about an infinite future in the tranquil realms of heaven, purgatory and hell. […]

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty

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This short animated film offers a bedtime story told with a very modern twist on the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty. Granny O’Grimm begins to tell the story of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ to her sleepy granddaughter but there is a twist. The classic fairy–tale is told with a 21st century sensibility as Granny reimagines the story […]

The Polish Language

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The Polish Language is a film-poem which brings an original poem by Alice Lyons to life through the medium of film. The imagery in this poem is activated in imaginative ways through various styles of animation, employing hand-drawn, stop-motion, and time lapse techniques. The typography – the style, arrangement and appearance of the letters and […]

Late Afternoon

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In this delicately rendered animation, Emily, an elderly woman with dementia, vividly relives her memories. Sitting comfortably in her armchair Emily (voiced by Fionnula Flanagan) takes a cup of tea and a biscuit when a simple mishap triggers a pleasant journey into the past. She swims through the memories of being a child on a beach, […]

Ulys

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Tim Booth’s playful animation is both a reflection on Joyce’s struggle with the writing of Ulysses (which he declares to be “a real bollix of a buk”), and a whistle-stop tour through the book itself.  It offers a potted outline and uses hand-drawn animation to conjure the fevered imaginings of Leopold Bloom and the characters […]

Give Up Yer Aul Sins

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Give Up Yer Aul Sins humorously animates original audio recordings of Dublin schoolchildren made by their teacher Peg Cunningham in the 1960s. In the short film, a documentary crew arrives to record the activities of the classroom. The teacher chooses little Mary to retell, in her own imaginative way, the bible story of John the […]