May 2025
- The Peoples' Picturehouse Cork
- Jun 1
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 4
On May 28th, we had another brilliant showcase full of shorts, music videos and animations galore! Thank you to everyone that joined us for our May showcase! Well done to all the brilliant artists that put their work on display for our lovely audience to enjoy. And a very special thank you to our very own Emily Terri Shannon for being such a fantastic host! Our 48 hour challenge is back next month, keep an eye out for more updates!
Memory Hair / Phil Spillane
A poetry film put together for LockedOut Collection 4.
Cast & Crew
Written & Directed by Phill Spillane
Filmed & Edited by Angeni
5x5/ Conor Flynn

A compilation of micro shorts by Conor Flynn.
Five Second Glue - https://youtube.com/shorts/kK_Zb1KRQQY?si=kwxSP-Y7AKqslQtE
Cast & Crew
Created by Conor Flynn & Michael Paul Kohn
Cappuccino To Go / Thomas Maguire
First time actor, Ryan, struggles to distinguish from fact and fiction when he falls for his co-star Lauren.
Cast & Crew
Starring Patrick O'Connor Mason & Tara Downes
DOP: Caterina Xander
1st Assistant Director: Danylo Dubkovskyi
2nd Assistant Director: Namejs Balodis
3rd Assistant Director: Anna Yushchenko
Editor: Thomas Maguire
Script Supervisor: Laine Henderson
Music Supervisor: Peter Maguire
Camera Assistants: Iseult Long & Anzhelika Zhuravlova
Sound Technicion: David Slemon
Boom Operator: Ryan Mullally
The Butterfly Nightmare / Josh Argon Smith
A frustrated 20 year old with a mysterious past reunites with a childhood friend named Mungo, only to find that he isn’t quite how he remembered him...
Cast & Crew
Written, Directed & Edited by Josh Argon Walsh
Starring Conor Cloke, Eoin Ring & Adam O'Conor
Quittok / Cian Clesham

Are you addicted to social media, glued to the LCD screen? Try QuitTok today!
Cast & Crew
Written & Directed by Cian Clesham
Starring Matthew Murphy, Annette Enright, Stacey Jane & Pamela Kiely
Director Of Photography: Karolina Winters
Editor: Cian Clesham
The Widow / Padraig O'Sullivan

A Silent film about an Old Widow coping with life on the anniversary of her husband’s death and how she misses him - even though she doesn’t say it.
Cast & Crew
Written & Directed by Padraig O'Sullivan
Pizza Night / William Duffy
The best pizza based film you will ever see.
Cast & Crew
Created by William Duffy
Notebook For Uncle Ben: How I See It / Rebecca Jane Park

An essay film notebook exploring the individualised experience of grief.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Rebecca Jane Park
Apparent Power / Conor Hooper & Emily Power
Two door-to-door salesmen get more than they bargain for when they pick the wrong house to call. Comedy-horror and winner of the Offline Film Festival 48 hour Challenge 2019.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Conor Hooper & Emily Power
Voice Message / Gráinne Holmes Blumenthal
Voice Message is a response to the man who dumped Gráinne by text, created as part of the Kino Guarimba Film Residency in sunny Amantea, Southern Italy. A concept piece that ended up being incredibly healing for the creator, Gráinne took real texts she received when getting dumped and combined them with images of her in situations where she wishes she was with somebody, anybody else.
A compilation of ten second animations for the 10 Second Animation Challenge.
Cast & Crew
Created by Gráinne Holmes Blumenthal
Sound Affect / Jason O'Sullivan

Two friends are forced to question reality.
Cast & Crew
Written & Directed by Jason O'Sullivan
Remembrance / Jonathan Clohessey

Can Tadhg help Donna find a Remembrance?
Cast & Crew
Directed by David Mcsweeney
Written & Starring Jonathon Clohessey
After The Tone / Tom Coughlan
Shot in Kinsale, this film explores themes of grief, acceptance, and family against the stunning backdrop of Ireland’s coastline.
Cast & Crew
Directed, Cinematography and Editor: Tom Coughlan
Produced & Written by Sam Peare
Story by Same Peare, Sarah Jacob & Tom Coughlan
Starring
Nathan Sweeney
Lorraine Fox
Brian O'Neil
David Peare
Alison Johnson