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Meeting Che Guevara And The Man From Maybury
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Anthony Byrne
Ireland | 2002 | 17mins | 35mm | Black & White
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During the Cuban
missile crisis in 1963 a young woman from a small
Irish town has a fascination with H.G Wells' War
of the Worlds and slowly her imagination and reality
merge between the potentially real war of the worlds
and science fiction, as she sets out to meet Che
Guevara in a bid to save the world from a Martian
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Two Nudes Bathing
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John Boorman
England | 1995 | 31mins | 35mm | Colour
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Based on an anonymous
painting hanging in the Louvre, this short film
stars John Hurt as an ageing Italian Comte. Commissioning
a portrait of his two daughters, he bans the painter
from communicating with them in any way whether
it be through speech or simply eye contact, for
fear he will strip them of their innocence. Though
he obeys this rule, the two girls are eager to learn
about life and love and this handsome stranger is
their perfect opportunity. |
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Krapp's Last Tape
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Atom Egoyan
Ireland | 2000 | 58mins | 35mm | Colour
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Reviewing his life on his sixty-ninth birthday,
we learn who Krapp is, not from what he tells
us but from the tape he chooses to listen to -
one of him thirty years ago. He isolates memories
of value, fertility and nourishment against his
quickly approaching death. Hurt commits to film,
his acclaimed stage performance of Beckett's powerful
creation, Krapp.
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