Irish Shorts 3: Best Cork Short Competition
Home thoughts from abroad? You can never go home again! But everyone must have one... From archival reflections to urgent calls, a selection of Cork filmmakers and films, including documentary, drama, dance, silent film. Mature themes!
WHEN IMAGES NO LONGER CARRY TIME NATURALLY - Shuning Zhao [C] [D]
Combining archival footage of West Cork with contemporary recordings, this experimental film explores how digital images mediate memory, time and our experience of place.
HERE & THERE - Bruna Barreto Fontoura [C]
WARNING! EXTRATERRESTRIAL SIGHTING! Cork City has been invaded by an extraterrestrial creature who's only after one thing: to find a new home.
SEBASTIAN - Owen Warren [C]
A young sex worker has an client who is from their life before and must decide if they wish to go ahead with their request
LIFE/TIME - Terence White [C]
Through layered imagery and movement, this experimental dance film brings three stages of a woman’s life into dialogue, exploring the challenges, changes and complexities of ageing.
EMBROIDERING THE EARTH'S MANTEL - Aideen Barry [C] [RU]
Inspired by forgotten surrealist Remedios Varo, this experimental film merges historic cinematic techniques, motion design and performers’ personal journeys into a dreamlike exploration of art, identity and displacement.
HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE - Liadán Roche [C]
Grace, a recently evicted trans woman, and Billy, a trans man stuck at home, find intimacy in an extra-dimensional room – but just like the city outside, the room itself threatens to swallow them whole.
EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A HOME - Tomas Heising [C] [D]
After nearly four years of weekly protests against Ireland’s housing crisis, Cork musician Martin Leahy makes his 200th and final journey to Leinster House, joined by fellow campaigners determined to make their voices heard.
All films in competition are eligible for the Grand Prix Irish Short Award and when indicated Grand Prix Documentary Short Award [D], Redbreast UNHIDDEN Short Award [RU] and Best Cork Short Award [C]
