Saturday 23rd October
SHORT PROGRAMME 5
VENUE: Siamsa Tire Theatre,Tralee
Saturday 23rd October - Time 2.00pm - Admission €6.00
Ouch! Ken Wardrop
Ireland / 2004 / 10mins / Beta / Colour
Three men talk candidly about their experiences of being circumcised
later in life. ‘Ouch!’ is a funny and touching examination
of life on either side of the foreskin divide.
Producer Andrew Freedman Writer
Ken Wardrop
King Herion Dean Sheldreck
Ireland / 2004 / 3mins 57sec / VHS / Colour
A five minute short written for the soul purpose of educating young
people and old about the seriousness of heroin addiction in Ireland.
Producer Dean Sheldreck Writer Dean
Sheldreck
Nostradamus and Me Éilis Kirwan
Ireland / 2004 / 16mins 2sec / Beta / Colour
Dublin, 1986. Nora has never kissed a boy, but who has time for that
when the arms race is out of control and the world is falling apart?
Now two Frenchmen are about to change her life: Antoine, the French
exchange student and Nostradamus, the seer from Salon. When Armageddon
is this Saturday, is there time to seize the day?
Producer Trinity Films/Samson Films Writer
Éilis Kirwan
Jennie Balfe Dogmedia Productions
Ireland / 2003 / 16mins / Beta / Colour
A girl known only as Jennie Balfe writes her name on walls all over
Dublin. We decided to find her and give her a 25 pound ham.
Producer Dogmedia Productions Writer
Dogmedia Productions
BREAK
An Cruthaitheoir Damon Silvester
Ireland / 2003 / 12mins 5sec / Beta / Colour
The Inventor is the tale of a boy, Eoin, whose dreams help him to
overcome the shackles of his disciplinarian upbringing. Through Eoin’s
imagination his family learns to understand him and how he shapes
his world through invention.
Producer Michael Duffy Writer Damon
Silvester
Up on the Roof Peter O’Sullivan
Ireland / 2004 / 7mins 24sec / Beta / Colour
Peter’s efforts to take the easy way out invariably land him
in more trouble ...
Push Hands Stephanie Green
Ireland / 2004 / 8mins / Beta / Colour
Living in contemporary Ireland, a teenage graffiti artist and a Chinese
Tai Chi master learn to share the same beach.
Producer Tamara Anghie Writer Stephanie
Green
Bumbles Burden Vanessa Fielding
Ireland / 2004 / 8mins / Beta / Colour
Bumble’s Burden is a black tale of revenge. Bumble is the sidekick
for a local loan shark, Bottle, a bullyboy who has exploited and terrorised
his community to get on. One of Bottle’s victims was Bumble’s
Da, a carpenter, whose gambling problem had got out of hand and who
died trying to pay back the enormous loans. Bumble carries the burden
of guilt for his failure to intervene, in the form of a railway sleeper,
deliberating the best way to avenge his loss.
Producer John McDonnell Writer Anthony
Goulding
The Kilo Dogmedia Productions
Ireland / 2003 / 23mins / Beta / Colour
Every 7-10 years the Irish Kilogram is sent to Paris to be re-calibrated
with the International Kilogram. This time a small camera crew accompany
the scientist responsible for collecting the kilo.
Producer Dogmedia Productions Writer
Dogmedia Productions
SHORTS PROGRAMME 7
VENUE: Siamsa Tire Theatre, Tralee
Saturday 23rd October - Time 8.00pm - Admission €6.00
Still Life John McMahon
Ireland / 2004 / 8mins 50sec / Beta / Colour
The tide of time is ever present, it engulfs life. Rolling across, ebbing
against and washing over our memories. Amelia photographs her parents
belongings to remember, to honour and to preserve the memory of their
beautiful lives.
The Ten Steps Brendan Muldowney
Ireland / 2004 / 10mins / Beta / Colour
A young girl baby-sits in an old house, when the lights go off.
Producer Conor Barry Writer Brendan
Muldowney
(final) Cut Laurent Spadotto France / 2002 / 5mins
/ Beta / Black and White
Confusion between reality and fiction gives life to a new dimension.
A world feeds by an
ethereal truth, imagination, wishes, fear and frustration.
Producer Laurent Spadotto Writer Laurent Spadotto
Tom Waits made me Cry Fergal Rock
Ireland / 2004 / 13mins / Beta / Colour
Having lost his job Vincent Levine a tragic hero begins his search for
passion, a search that leads him from Tom Waits to Karl Marx to Star
Wars but it is only in coming face to face with the system itself that
Vincent discovers his true vocation.
Producer Chris Roufs Writer Fergal
Rock
Dublin 1 Jason Tammemagi
Ireland / 2004 / 11mins 22secs / Beta / Colour
As the face of Dublin is changing, this film embodies a moment in time.
It’s history and it’s future are all there for those who
wish to see it, but they are contained within a short and true animated
anecdote about one man’s visit to Dublin 1.
Producer Gerard O’Rourke Writer
Fred Reilly
BREAK
The Art of Flirting Fernando Tiberini
UK / 2003 / 17mins 36sec / DVD / B+W
To envisage ‘The Art of Flirting’, imagine Buster Keaton
playing Don Juan directed by the Farelly Brothers. It is very funny,
yet at the same time covers the full gamut of flirting techniques. If
you can’t pick up any useful flirting skills from this film -
you are probably too busy getting laid to make time to see it.
Producer Simon Tzu Writer Simon Tzu
Mary’s Day Niall Campion
Ireland / 2004 / 3mins / VHS / Colour
A horror film set around a forest, about a child on her communion day,
another cried on hers and Mary’s suicide that somehow ties them
both together.
Producer Lucia Gavin Writer Pat O’Connor
Cachophony Dooho Choi
USA / 2004 / 14mins 40sec / Beta / Colour
Ferrucio, an enchanting piano tuner is faced with a tough dilemma. John,
his cranky tenant threatens to move out if the old man can’t fix
his ramshackle apartment. The maestro uses his ingenuity to repair the
problems and teaches John a lesson in beauty he will never forget.
Producer Muara C Johnson Writer Muara
C Johnson
Anna Spud Edward Foster
England / 2003 / 10mins / Beta / Colour
Anna Spud is not a happy little girl. Bad things always seem to happen
to her - and nothing could be worse than an enforced long car journey
to Ireland with her (fantastically old) parents. It can only go wrong,
really....
Producer Matt Delargy Writer Edward
Foster/Thécla Geesing
VENUE: Gortbrack Farm, Quills Cross, Tralee
Saturday 23rd October - Time 8.00pm - Admission €6.00
20th anniversary screening
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
1984 / 88mins / 35mm / Colour
Also screening - a selection of Short Films will be screened in this
unique venue. Places are very limited - Booking is essential. Please
contact the Kerry Film Festival Office for further details Tel. 066
7129934
It is advisable to dress warmly!
SHORT PROGRAMME 5
VENUE: Siamsa Tire Theatre,Tralee
Saturday 23rd October - Time 2.00pm - Admission €6.00
Ouch! Ken Wardrop
Ireland / 2004 / 10mins / Beta / Colour
Three men talk candidly about their experiences of being circumcised
later in life. ‘Ouch!’ is a funny and touching examination
of life on either side of the foreskin divide.
Producer Andrew Freedman Writer
Ken Wardrop
King Herion Dean Sheldreck
Ireland / 2004 / 3mins 57sec / VHS / Colour
A five minute short written for the soul purpose of educating young
people and old about the seriousness of heroin addiction in Ireland.
Producer Dean Sheldreck Writer Dean
Sheldreck
Nostradamus and Me Éilis Kirwan
Ireland / 2004 / 16mins 2sec / Beta / Colour
Dublin, 1986. Nora has never kissed a boy, but who has time for that
when the arms race is out of control and the world is falling apart?
Now two Frenchmen are about to change her life: Antoine, the French
exchange student and Nostradamus, the seer from Salon. When Armageddon
is this Saturday, is there time to seize the day?
Producer Trinity Films/Samson Films Writer
Éilis Kirwan
Jennie Balfe Dogmedia Productions
Ireland / 2003 / 16mins / Beta / Colour
A girl known only as Jennie Balfe writes her name on walls all over
Dublin. We decided to find her and give her a 25 pound ham.
Producer Dogmedia Productions Writer
Dogmedia Productions
BREAK
An Cruthaitheoir Damon Silvester
Ireland / 2003 / 12mins 5sec / Beta / Colour
The Inventor is the tale of a boy, Eoin, whose dreams help him to
overcome the shackles of his disciplinarian upbringing. Through Eoin’s
imagination his family learns to understand him and how he shapes
his world through invention.
Producer Michael Duffy Writer Damon
Silvester
Up on the Roof Peter O’Sullivan
Ireland / 2004 / 7mins 24sec / Beta / Colour
Peter’s efforts to take the easy way out invariably land him
in more trouble ...
Push Hands Stephanie Green
Ireland / 2004 / 8mins / Beta / Colour
Living in contemporary Ireland, a teenage graffiti artist and a Chinese
Tai Chi master learn to share the same beach.
Producer Tamara Anghie Writer Stephanie
Green
Bumbles Burden Vanessa Fielding
Ireland / 2004 / 8mins / Beta / Colour
Bumble’s Burden is a black tale of revenge. Bumble is the sidekick
for a local loan shark, Bottle, a bullyboy who has exploited and terrorised
his community to get on. One of Bottle’s victims was Bumble’s
Da, a carpenter, whose gambling problem had got out of hand and who
died trying to pay back the enormous loans. Bumble carries the burden
of guilt for his failure to intervene, in the form of a railway sleeper,
deliberating the best way to avenge his loss.
Producer John McDonnell Writer Anthony
Goulding
The Kilo Dogmedia Productions
Ireland / 2003 / 23mins / Beta / Colour
Every 7-10 years the Irish Kilogram is sent to Paris to be re-calibrated
with the International Kilogram. This time a small camera crew accompany
the scientist responsible for collecting the kilo.
Producer Dogmedia Productions Writer
Dogmedia Productions
SHORTS PROGRAMME 7
VENUE: Siamsa Tire Theatre, Tralee
Saturday 23rd October - Time 8.00pm - Admission €6.00
Still Life John McMahon
Ireland / 2004 / 8mins 50sec / Beta / Colour
The tide of time is ever present, it engulfs life. Rolling across, ebbing against and washing over our memories. Amelia photographs her parents belongings to remember, to honour and to preserve the memory of their beautiful lives.
The Ten Steps Brendan Muldowney
Ireland / 2004 / 10mins / Beta / Colour
A young girl baby-sits in an old house, when the lights go off.
Producer Conor Barry Writer Brendan Muldowney
(final) Cut Laurent Spadotto France / 2002 / 5mins / Beta / Black and White
Confusion between reality and fiction gives life to a new dimension. A world feeds by an
ethereal truth, imagination, wishes, fear and frustration.
Producer Laurent Spadotto Writer Laurent Spadotto
Tom Waits made me Cry Fergal Rock
Ireland / 2004 / 13mins / Beta / Colour
Having lost his job Vincent Levine a tragic hero begins his search for passion, a search that leads him from Tom Waits to Karl Marx to Star Wars but it is only in coming face to face with the system itself that Vincent discovers his true vocation.
Producer Chris Roufs Writer Fergal Rock
Dublin 1 Jason Tammemagi
Ireland / 2004 / 11mins 22secs / Beta / Colour
As the face of Dublin is changing, this film embodies a moment in time. It’s history and it’s future are all there for those who wish to see it, but they are contained within a short and true animated anecdote about one man’s visit to Dublin 1.
Producer Gerard O’Rourke Writer Fred Reilly
BREAK
The Art of Flirting Fernando Tiberini
UK / 2003 / 17mins 36sec / DVD / B+W
To envisage ‘The Art of Flirting’, imagine Buster Keaton playing Don Juan directed by the Farelly Brothers. It is very funny, yet at the same time covers the full gamut of flirting techniques. If you can’t pick up any useful flirting skills from this film - you are probably too busy getting laid to make time to see it.
Producer Simon Tzu Writer Simon Tzu
Mary’s Day Niall Campion
Ireland / 2004 / 3mins / VHS / Colour
A horror film set around a forest, about a child on her communion day, another cried on hers and Mary’s suicide that somehow ties them both together.
Producer Lucia Gavin Writer Pat O’Connor
Cachophony Dooho Choi
USA / 2004 / 14mins 40sec / Beta / Colour
Ferrucio, an enchanting piano tuner is faced with a tough dilemma. John, his cranky tenant threatens to move out if the old man can’t fix his ramshackle apartment. The maestro uses his ingenuity to repair the problems and teaches John a lesson in beauty he will never forget.
Producer Muara C Johnson Writer Muara C Johnson
Anna Spud Edward Foster
England / 2003 / 10mins / Beta / Colour
Anna Spud is not a happy little girl. Bad things always seem to happen to her - and nothing could be worse than an enforced long car journey to Ireland with her (fantastically old) parents. It can only go wrong, really....
Producer Matt Delargy Writer Edward Foster/Thécla Geesing
VENUE: Gortbrack Farm, Quills Cross, Tralee
Saturday 23rd October - Time 8.00pm - Admission €6.00
20th anniversary screening
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
1984 / 88mins / 35mm / Colour
Also screening - a selection of Short Films will be screened in this
unique venue. Places are very limited - Booking is essential. Please
contact the Kerry Film Festival Office for further details Tel. 066
7129934
It is advisable to dress warmly!
