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Wednesday 6th June
To open the festival Filmbase will present a series of short documentaries made in Ireland. This programme was a sell out at the 2007 Dublin International Film Festival and features a range of films by both professional and amateur filmmakers.
Recent Irish Short Documentaries
Ken Wardrop's Undressing My Mother (pictured right), produced by Venom Films, was winner of the Best Short Film at the European Film Awards, as well as the recipient of an honourable mention at the Sundance Film Festival. The film explores a woman's musing on her overweight and ageing body in a unique way. Also produced by Venom Films, Fowl, is a new Irish documentary by Andrew Legge, which stylishly examines modern day chicken farming and western people's relationship with food.
The McDonagh Pictures, directed by Ian Palmer, takes us to the heart of a Traveller family's experience through the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. Jumping off from the titular photographs this film gives an intimate and honest account of the participants' lives and the wider traveller community. This powerful and compassionate film was made over the course of a decade.
Roisin Loughrey's Gnath-phiosa Eadach ("A Simple Piece of Cloth" - pictured right), is a personal film about beauty, beliefs and veils that takes a look two women, and two different cultures.
The other films included in this programme were made as part of the Filmbase documentary foundation course and explore topics such as a day in the life in the infamous Dublin chipper Leo Burdock's, the work of an artist who finds his inspiration from the River Liffey, and the challenges of driving a taxi in Dublin.
Running Order (87mins total)
The McDonagh Pictures, Dir. Ian Palmer (25'30'')
Undressing My Mother, Dir. Ken Waldrop (6')
It's Only Gathering Dust, Dir. Peter Murnaghan (4')
Zorro of the Liffey, Dir. Julian Behal (5')
Fowl, Dir. Andrew Legge (24')
Can You Take Me to Jobstown?, Dir. Marie Eschenbach (5')
Crispy Bits & Caviar, Dir. Crispin Rodwell (4'30'')
Lovely Day, Thank God, Dir. Fiona Dowling (5')
Gnáth-Phíosa Éadach, Dir. Roisin Loughrey (8')
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