Mismantler
A fascinating, unique experience, Mismantler is a dark, stream of consciousness fever dream that ressembles nothing you've seen on the big screen.
Post-apocalyptic landscapes are pictured in a number of major films that are now part of the collective unconscious. Terminator, The Road are clear influences for Andrew Keogh. His obstinate, close-up dive into the physicality of surviving, however...is its own thing. As if acknowledging that Eraserhead or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre have as much to tell us about it as Threads does.
A collaboration between Director Andrew Keogh, Steve Stapleton & Nurse With Wound, the film grew out of animated visuals for a live Nurse With Wound show. The main character 'The Mismantler' is taken from a collage by Stapleton.
The film's multitalented director has another film at the festival, This is a Prison, presented in Irish Voices.
Followed by a Q&A with the director.
Watch our Senior Programmer, Don O’Mahony talk about why he picked this film as one of his must-see movies of CIFF 2025, here.
