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Kay

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Kay is a short documentary that explores the artistic approach and paintings of Kay Lavelle, a sixth-year pupil at Sion Hill, one of Ireland’s oldest all girls’ secondary schools in County Dublin. The film follows the student as she paints on Killiney strand with beachgoers and fishermen and at the school’s art studio. Sister Maureen […]
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Roll 16 – Anne’s third birthday, et al.

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This silent amateur film captures family moments over several occasions, from airport greetings to birthday celebrations. Children and adults alike enjoy playing by a pond in a lush garden and a day out to Glendalough, County Wicklow, where everyone enjoys a picnic. The filmmaker, Beres Laidlaw, regularly documented her four daughters in home movies and […]
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The Seventh Day

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The Seventh Day is a stop-motion animation depicting the dawn of time in the Big Bang 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 time-based mechanisms themselves, harassed and harried across the screen […]
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Roll 21: Achill, 1969

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Roll 21: Achill, 1969 is a visually engaging film which depicts scenery and panoramas of Achill Island, County Mayo. Cinematic footage of waterfalls, forests, cliffs, fishermen on a beach, and a 1960s church near Letterfrack, County Galway, are included. The filmmaker’s keen interest in framing and narrative techniques is evident. Shots of a friend driving […]
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Up the Canal

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This short film explores how the Grand Canal in Dublin has changed over the years. The voiceover provided by Irish novelist, short story writer and humourist John D. Sheridan, notes how methods of transport have changed and how fewer boats and barges now use the waterway. The aural memories are illustrated by poetic footage of […]
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