Dean Kavanagh
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Biography: Dean Kavanagh is an experimental filmmaker from Ireland. Over the past 14 years, he has created 70 shorts and 6 feature films. His cinema intricately forges a new relationship between contemporary and legacy media formats, while combining materialist film methodologies with a focus on narrative structures. This work has been described as part of an important new direction in Irish cinema and has been screened at film festivals and cultural institutions internationally. His filmmaking is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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Only Human
Overview: A tale of people unfolds under the night sky. These doomed couples and lost individuals begin journeys and attempt to find resolution in their lives. Love is observed from a distance, sadness is in the air. With little sympathy for the loss and destruction caused to the characters, the stories progress and become neatly woven into a minimalistic portrayal of modern life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-08
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Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)
Overview: Homo Sapiens Project (201) was completed in 2021 as part of re-envisioning and restructuring Rashidi's filmography. This nineteen-hour experimental feature is constituted from many feature films produced between 2002 to 2014. These experimental features were made as a type of test or trial experiment. Rashidi assembled the films from footage accumulated over the years, archival footage, found footage and rushes donated by his close collaborators.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-01
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Shingle Beach
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Forbidden Symmetries
Overview: Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they’ve seen and heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate that an effort to construct functions known not to exist may on occasion produce interesting frauds.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Nineveh
Overview: Stertched images along stretched time.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-05
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Ten Years In The Sun
Overview: An assortment of obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions flicker on the verge of incoherence against the context of vast cosmic disaster in Rouzbeh Rashidi’s boldest film to date. This sensory onslaught combines a homage to the subversive humour of Luis Buñuel and Joao Cesar Monteiro with the visionary scope of a demented science fiction epic.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-27
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Bipedality
Overview: A relationship between a man and a woman discloses during the course of the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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TRAILERS
Overview: TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a scope that is as cosmically vast as a science fiction epic. Rashidi’s ongoing exploration into the nature of cinema sees a group of characters adrift in space, each locked into their own sexual rituals while a cataclysm of universal proportions unfolds. Humanity has become a mysterious burlesque show for alien eyes: the gaze of the film camera. This visionary spectacle uses multiple formats and visual textures in weaving an erotic anti-narrative suspended in its own space and time.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-13
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HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind
Overview: There is no escape… From one side of the globe to the other, there is no escaping the faces, the visions, the ever-watchful camera. There is no escaping the mask, there is no escaping the resonating echoes of images and sounds that cross each other over time. There is no escaping the cinema. There is no escaping the terrors of the mind. “A mysterious loner, perhaps a poet, journeys through a series of uncanny surrealistic landscapes with an unclear purpose. His adventure is divided into three sections. The main theme of this experiment is to compare the eerier qualities of different landscapes and interpose the characters within them, elaborating the project’s ongoing preoccupation with extracting sinister moods from ordinary settings. In a way, these can be seen as experimental horror films in which an atmosphere of dread is evoked and sustained without the expected narrative trappings.”
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-05
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Cloud of Skin
Overview: Haunted by the memory of a blind woman with visionary powers, a man revisits the sites of their love affair. Rather than unfolding as a traditional narrative, Le Cain’s first feature is an immersive and dreamlike exploration of memory and vision. Shot in a series of time-warped Irish locations the otherworldly atmosphere is intensified by composer Karen Power’s compelling soundscapes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-07
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History of Water
Overview: A young man films his family to better understand them and as a result is destroyed by them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-05
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Polar Nights
Overview: The discovery of an ancient artefact. The night extends beyond the grip of reality. The inhabitants of a small community perish.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-13
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Out of Here
Overview: Ciaran is a passionate yet restless college dropout who has returned home to recession-struck Dublin after a year of travelling. Broke and living with his parents, struggling to re-connect with the ex-girlfriend that he left behind and the friends and social scene that have moved on without him, Ciaran questions whether he should stay or go - and comes to realize the difference between being stuck and being present
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-13
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