On October 9th, we teamed up with IndieCork Festival for a special collaboration showcase, celebrating the first incredible year of the People’s Picturehouse! The evening featured a recap of our journey so far, showcasing some of the standout projects that defined our inaugural year. Where the films are not available online, we suggest getting in contact with the creators if you’d like to view them.
Alphabet Soup / Conor Flynn
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Written & Directed by Conor Flynn
Starring Conor Flynn, Emma Sammon
A man realises he has forgotten a very special occasion and rushes to salvage things with just minutes to spare.
I NGAISTE / Julie Pourlavie
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Trapped is about people who want to make other happy but the forget about themselves and for the desire to be happy they feel guilty.
The Need / Julie Pourlavie
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SCRIBBLEMOUTH / Patrick O'Mahony
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Lilly is in love and has the perfect relationship....well, that's what she thinks.
The Yellow Place / Elena Binnig
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Written, directed, edited, and shot by Jake O’Flynn.
Starring Jake O’Flynn
Whilst reading a woman suddenly finds herself transported into a dreamlike space in which she revisits a mysterious, yet not unfamiliar building. As she starts to roam around the ghostly place reality and fiction start to blur and she asks herself the question: „How do you tell someone they may be talking to a ghost?" Written, directed and shot mainly in Cork City, "The Yellow Place" revisits Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story within new places. By exploring locations like the abandoned mental hospital in Cork City and incorporating archival audio, the film aims to capture a woman's journey that transcends time and space.
Caroline / Andrew Wrenard
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Something otherwordly is going on in the woods...
Pöato Said its ok to Fall / Immanuel Sola
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Starring Maclaine Black.
Creative Director - Immanuel Sola
Photographer / Videographer - Philip Corkery
Stylist - Lorna Egan
Poato a being from the Satin Psychedelic tells a tale of visual poetry.
In life, there are days. “It feels like I’m the only one who knows what’s really going on
Now it seems so dead and gone in this beautiful confusion, will you catch me?
I’m heading towards Spaces, the Psychedelic and I’m ready to let go
What if I fall on my face,
will you catch me?”
Red Hot Raw Bones / Bjornism
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A young man alienated within a dystopian-like society which by the end, with a help of a sex worker, realises the entrapment of his own fear of intimacy.
At least for now. / Serena Clarke
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Serena Clarke, a student and young filmmaker, ventures to capture everyday beauty in day-to-day life in her photography and videography, visualising a fascination with poetry and music and a love to incorporate that into her pieces, Born and raised in west-cork, serena aims to lead with a lightness and playful feel to create music montages and visual poetry.
Did you miss it? / Lawrence Cook
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A young man smokes on a bridge and struggles to take it all in.
The Weapon / Conor & Jamie Hooper
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A fierce and righteous bop from queer-pop duo Babylamb, about growing up queer, figuring out your place in the world, and discovering what drives you to keep living truthfully paired with fun, ambitious and bonkers visuals.
Without you this home would not exist / Adam Barry Murphy
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A young man smokes on a bridge and struggles to take it all in.
The Most Perfect Pants ever put on a person / David Murphy
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Made by David Murphy, Patrick Cronin, Mark Hennessy, and Shaun McWhinney
A pair of pants causes quite a stir at Christmas.
Black Forest / Valerie O'Connor
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Written and Directed by: Valerie O’Connor Produced by : Valerie O’Connor and Anya Matushkina With: Ann Blake as ‘The Wife’ Michael Sherin as ‘The Husband’ First AD: Sean Molony Camera Operator: Anya Matushkina Additional sound and titles: Leon O’Connor Thanks to: Pete Moles Barry Costello
Unwilling to celebrate another wedding anniversary, abused wife Margo takes out her abuser husband, in a sweet twist of domestic revenge. She dons her apron to bake Peter his favourite cake, a Black Forest Gateau. She could kill him in so many different ways; with a knife, a heavy pot, a flex, but no, Margo does it in signature style, serving him food that he doesn’t appreciate. A lover of day time TV, she has been inspired to embellish her cake with a little poison mixed into the whipped cream, ensuring her spouse dies happy at least.
Raithneach / Seán T. Ó Meallaigh
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Part of a series of poem videos produced by Ciara Ní É, for REIC and The Irish Writers Centre.
Written & Performed by Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin.
Directed and Filmed by Seán T. Ó Meallaigh
A meditation on modern society and one particular escape from it, by Seámus Barra Ó Suilleabháin, winner of the All Ireland Poetry Slam.
Substance / Ben Kavanagh
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Directed by Conor Flynn and Jamie Murphy
Produced by Ben Kavanagh and Donal J. O'Driscoll
Written by Bernard Casey, Conor Flynn and Jamie Murphy
A meditation on modern society and one particular escape from it, by Seámus Barra Ó Suilleabháin, winner of the All Ireland Poetry Slam.
Parts Lost and Found / Tatiana Kozar
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Directed by Conor Flynn and Jamie Murphy
Produced by Ben Kavanagh and Donal J. O'Driscoll
Written by Bernard Casey, Conor Flynn and Jamie Murphy
A meditation on modern society and one particular escape from it, by Seámus Barra Ó Suilleabháin, winner of the All Ireland Poetry Slam.
String / Darragh Ryan
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Written and Directed by Darragh Ryan
Starring Darragh Ryan and Felix Castaldo
String, starring Darragh Ryan and Felix Castaldo, tells the story of the last day in a failed criminals career.
Just Visiting / Laurie Shaw
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Just Visiting is an experimental film exploring the dimensions that sit between us and the beings that are able to move between them. The film was shot over lockdown with no cast and no crew
The Stag / John Bermingham
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Written, Directed, Edited, VFx'd, and Sound Designed by John Bermingham
Starring Patrick Curran, Kris Cowming
Featuring the song "All I Want This Year" by David Ryan
A drunk man makes a decision he soon regrets as he is terrorised by a decoration on his way home after a night out at Christmas.
Beautiful Cork / Mickael Do Couto
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Experience one year in Cork in less than 3 minutes! From cozy winter days to sunny summers, I wanted to showcase the city's transformation through the four seasons.
Operation: NUTCRACKER / Adam Byrne
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Written by Adam Byrne, Andrew Wrenard & Conor Dineen
Directed by Adam Byrne & Andrew Wrenard
Produced by Jamie Hooper and Shane Grourke
Starring:
Kenny Todgers
Sam Perez
Sam Peare
Shane Kelleher
Megan Pendergast
Orla Begley
Harry Ryall
A transmedia piece of live-event theatre, Nutcracker hacked the Picturehouse airwaves to repeatedly interrupt our Christmas Special.
Boom Operator / Graham and David McSweeney (McSweeney Films)
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Starring, Written and Directed by Graham and David McSweeney
He's a boom operator...