Coming to
Triskel Christchurch Cinema, Cork on Saturday July 11th at 6pm...
A knockout double bill of Michael Higgins'
At One Fell Swoop & Dean Kavanagh's
Polar Nights.
Tickets on sale.
At One Fell Swoop (2015) by Michael Higgins
Ireland / 70 mins / Black & White
At One Fell Swoop deals with a stonemason (Cillian Roche) and his
metamorphic wander through rural Ireland. In passing he slips through
the film’s frames into a re-imagining of his surroundings in which he
finds himself trapped on an intense cataclastic path towards a dead end.
Photographed on expired 16mm black and white film and entirely
hand-processed, At One Fell Swoop resembles a phantom-like film lodged
amid multiple stratums of time and space. At One Fell Swoop was funded
by Arts Council of Ireland.
Dublin based Michael Higgins has been making films for ten years. He is
interested in using the filmmaking process to rupture the reality of the
everyday, bringing to light alternative ways of seeing and
experiencing. His 2013 feature Smolt won the IndieCork Award for
Innovation in Irish Feature Filmmaking.
Polar Nights (2014) by Dean Kavanagh
Ireland / 61 mins / Colour
Polar Nights is a formalistic journey of image and sound that plunges
viewers into the depths of the Arctic where a small town and its
inhabitants live day-to-day lives in the dark. The main protagonist is
perhaps the movie itself, which leads to the question of whether these
characters were ever real or just delusions bleeding in from the cold.
Dean Kavanagh is an independent experimental filmmaker from Wicklow. He
became a member of EFS in 2008. Since then he has completed over 50
short films and 5 at feature length, which have been screened worldwide.
His work is intensely visual, creating detailed atmospheres that
respond to the interaction between space, time and the human body. Rural
and domestic themes diaphanously sheath a rigorously formalistic
interplay between sound and image.
