ifi_user_2025_AG, Author at IFI Archive Player

Dream Maker

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

Dream Maker explores the relationship between two young women in a tender play of furtive glances, sensual interactions and hesitations. It’s a striking piece, and one of the few known Irish amateur films by a woman that offers such an intimate and dream-like portrayal of female characters. Dream Maker is part of Flora Kerrigan: Dream Maker on the […]

Animation

Moonshine

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

‘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 […]

Flora Kerrigan

Discord

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

A gothic-infused escapade where slapstick visual gags are playfully tested. A man disappears into a bathtub and out hops a woman; a fisherman casts his rod over a hill into a glass container which tries to swallow him; a gravedigger makes a futile attempt to lift a headstone. Two men enter a tunnel seconds before […]

Flora Kerrigan

The Worms Are Having Fun

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

The Worms Are Having Fun depicts a flirtatious interaction between two men and a woman. A painter views her as his muse, while the other admires her from afar. As Kerrigan explains: ‘Two men are continually being haunted by one girl.’ The Worms Are Having Fun is part of Flora Kerrigan: Dream Maker on the […]

Animation

Off Beat

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

‘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 […]

Flora Kerrigan

A Hard Day’s Knight

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

‘A supercilious chess-player becomes obsessed with his white pawn as he sees her getting closer to becoming a queen. In his efforts to catch her, he enters into the game himself, with disastrous results.’ (Flora Kerrigan) In this playful exploration of hierarchy and power as manifested in the game of chess, Kerrigan experiments with […]

Flora Kerrigan

Dead End

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

A young man experiences fitful visions on his deathbed. He visits abandoned cityscapes, follows a Grim Reaper and eventually ends up in a coffin with the Reaper looming overhead. Dead End is part of Flora Kerrigan: Dream Maker on the IFI Archive Player. To view more of the collection, please click here.

Animation

Early Animations

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

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. […]

Animation

The Seventh Day (with musical accompaniment)

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

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 […]

Animation

Cold Feet

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

‘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 […]

Animation

Epitaph

25th September 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

‘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 […]

Margo Harkin

The Hunger Strike

20th August 2025

ifi_user_2025_AG 0

Made to mark the 25th anniversary of one of the most dramatic periods of Northern Ireland history when in 1981 ten men, including elected MP Bobby Sands, starved to death on hunger strike for the right to political status in prison. The events served as a unifying force for Irish nationalists and marked a watershed […]