IRISH NARRATIVE SHORTS 1

4:00 PM - THE OLD PRESBYTERY, TRALEE - €5           

TERMINAL COMMUNICATION
Ireland 2008 2min 53sec DVD/Mini DV Colour

Terminal Communication is a fixed-frame film showing the actions of drivers as they approach a badly signed junction leading into Rosslare Harbour ferry port, in Co. Wexford, Ireland. Filmed from a vantage point overlooking the junction, the camera captures the incidents which local’s claims are an everyday occurrence.

Director Michael Fortune

QUESTIONS
Ireland 2008 5min 48sec DVD/Mini DV Colour

A series of intimately observed moments between two brothers after the death of their parents, ‘Questions’ takes place in a graveyard where, over a game of frisbee, the brothers come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences.

Director Mark Noonan

THE RANGER
Ireland 2008 10min 35mm Colour

Ireland 1854. A soldier returns after serving abroad for 20 years to find his family dead from famine. He visits a neighbour to find out what happened.

Director: PJ Dillon

DEEP BREATHS
Ireland 2007 14min 45sec 35mm colour

When Danny sees Bridget, the woman he loves, meeting another man he decides to follow them. What he discovers reveals a shocking truth.

Director PJ Dillon

MARTIN
Ireland 2008 17min 33sec Digi Beta & 35mm Colour

A dark, violent character study of an aggressive man fighting his inner demons until his bright 15 yr old daughter becomes a glimmer of hope in his otherwise worthless life.

Director Sean Branigan

WHATEVER TURNS YOU ON
Ireland 2008 4min HDV Colour

The well ordered running of an electronics store is disrupted when a homeless man arrives to make a purchase. A humorous but poignant story of the need to belong.

Director Declan Cassidy

ATLANTIC
Ireland 2008 3min 40sec DVD Colour

Sometimes hope hangs on which way the wind blows.
A fresh take on a classic theme in this intense, fast-cutting drama about a lonely farmer in the 1960s, and the hope that blows in from the Atlantic.

Director Conor Ferguson

THE SILVER BOW
Ireland 2008 8min DVD/Mini DV Colour

A Son presents his father with a special Christmas present.

Director Robert Manson

TIN MAN
Ireland 2007 7min 36sec DVD/Mini DV Colour

Brendan is made of tin. He relies on his girlfriend Kate to wind him up and oil him. Kate is unhappy with the relationship and Brendan doesn’t take the breakup very well.

Director Ged Murray

OUT OF THE BLUE
Ireland 2008 8min 55sec 16mmSuper Colour

Georgie's love life transforms when he discovers a TV floating in the sea.

Director Michael Lavelle

CALLED BACK
Ireland 2008 10min 5sec DVD/Mini DV Colour

Called back explores the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson. Drawing inspiration from the poems "I taste a liquor never brewed", "I heard a fly buzz when I died" and "I felt a funeral in my brain", this film gains an insight into the mind of one of America's greatest poets.

Directed by 4.2 transition year Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School