Cork Film Festival

Gangs of Waterfall
Ronan Phelan
- 16mins | Beta
Set in the town of Waterfall in the year 1955, the film revolves around the feud between two groups of youths – a tough gang of hurlers called ‘The Demons’ and a newly formed rock and rollgroup, ‘The Freebirds’. Who will emerge as the town’s number onegang?

The Demon Within
Jane Lee
- 5mins | Beta
A subversive demon plays out acreeping desire to do nice things in hell.

Half Way House
Peter Gleeson
- 7mins | 16mm
The revolving door brings the kite man back for more….

Frau Von Havel
Ben Reilly
- 2mins | DVD
A woman does away with herself in the course of a short poem.

A Dream Within A
Dream
Ralf Kleeman
- 5mins | DVD
Shot by Kleeman following an experimental impulse, on the Irish South coast, following the maritime
theme of Edgar Allan Poe’s
poem.

The Butterfly Collector
Bairre MacCanna
- 5mins | Beta
A short-sighted Butterfly Collectors' expedition to the park is repeatedly interrupted by an attention seeking flasher. Hilarity ensues...

Tuesday Is Killing Day
Jo Neylin
- 5mins | Beta
Many promises were made. I’m still waiting…

My First Motion Picture
Pádraig Trehy
- 7mins | Beta
This is a personal and amusing re-creation of a boy’s first few years on planet earth.

Barchimp – The Appeal
Brian Connolly
- 10mins | DVD
Louis the chimp knows that one day he will be a great actor. He has the charm. He has the looks. The only thing that’s stopping him? The Booze.

Mad Bird
Justin Davenne
- 1min | DVD
Take one bird, add one window pane to one line of dialogue. Result - a film.

Give Us A Look Missus
Justin Davenne
- 1min | DVD
An affectionate, humourous look at family and community provoked by a large pair of pink bloomers.

Coffees On The House
Brian Cronin
- 2mins | Beta
The service in restaurants is usually good or bad. But sometimes it’s just odd.

Killing The Afternoon
Margaret Corkery
- 10mins | Beta
An experimental film that traces the efforts a group of beach dwellers to pass an overcast windy day.

This year’s ‘Made in Cork’ selection is expanded to two programmes, one comprised of shorts and the other of two documentary profiles. The former, rather than the traditional eight shorts, has grown to twelve reflecting the strength of the entries received. It’s worth stating that the selection process, like for the other programmes, is entirely subjective, reflecting our own tastes and biases. That films are not included is no reflection on their merit.

However, we believe that all of the films selected have qualities, which are special. They range from a 30-second vignette, to animation, to comedy, to documentary, to very personal dramas using archive footage and family footage. The subjects range from Brazilian butchers to alcoholic monkeys, from colourful flashers to languorous teenagers. The longer documentaries are portraits of venerable poet Desmond O’Grady and avant garde musician Giordai Ó Laoghaire.

Mention must also be made of films in other sections of the programme, Carol O’Keeffe’s exploration of gender identity, Written On The Soul and Colm McCarthy’s Perfection, winner of the Cork Film Centre script award. And we must also mention Peter Foott who has progressed from a ‘Made In Cork’ short to success at the recent Venice and Los Angeles Film Festivals.

The first film to be screened in the programme is the late Ronan Phelan’s wonderful, and now classic, Gangs of Waterfall. We devote the ‘Made In Cork’ programme to his memory.
-M. Hannigan

Made In Cork 2 | Monday 11th | 9.30pm | Kino Cinema

Desmond O’Grady
Adam Wyeth

33mins | DVD

Join Irish poet and translator, Desmond O’Grady, as he takes us through the labyrinth lanes of his life, from the parochial trappings of Limerick in the fifties, where he went to school with Richard Harris, to his chosen exile around Europe, Egypt and America. With readings from this wandering Celt’s numerous collections this film reflects a portrait of the artist as an older man living in Kinsale, and documents the experience of the poet as an Irish European.

May Fame Colm Tobin 40mins \| DVD
May Fame documents the life of Giordai Ó Laoghaire, the Cork based electro-acoustic composer and veteran of the avant-garde, as he returns to his native Cork and attempts to shed the baggage of his musical past. But can this ever happen?

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