Docs Ireland: Town of Strangers & When All Is Ruin Once Again
June 28th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
A weird coincidence treated Docs Ireland attendees to a pair of documentaries set in and around Gort, a small Galway …
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Docs Ireland: Gaza
June 24th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Is it strange to surf during a siege? The optics of a modern-day siege, and the visual poetics associated with …
Docs Ireland: Diego Maradona
June 21st, 2019 | by Kev Lovski
There are few football players on the planet that are more famous, or come with more infamy, than Argentina’s Diego …
Docs Ireland: The Inventor
June 19th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
An “invention” is, of course, not just a product you make, it’s a story you tell, a fancy you fashion. …
Docs Ireland: The Silence of Others
June 14th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
“Spain is covered in mass graves.” Buried wells of grief and pain stir underneath Spain’s transition from decades-long dictatorship to …
Minding the Gap
March 20th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
For about a half hour, Minding the Gap lulls you into a false sense of security. The opening passages of …
A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot
September 12th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
“It smashes the head open like a melon.” 11 year-old Kevin Barry is in his kitchen, holding a hatchet up …
Pull Focus: I, Dolours
August 15th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
Maurice Sweeney didn’t want to make a Spotlight special, lost in the evening television schedule, he tells the audience after …
Pull Focus: The Image You Missed
August 15th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
Outlining an ethics of documentary making in The Image You Missed, the late, acclaimed film-maker Arthur MacCaig (via Ernest Larsen’s …
Pull Focus: The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
August 14th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
The word ‘foreign’ is used a lot in The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Feargal Ward and Tadhg O’Sullivan’s portrait …
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