Docs Ireland: Selection Shorts: Programme 2
Docs Ireland presents the second programme of this year's Official Selection Shorts.
TALES OF RAILWAY’S PAST
DIR. DARAGH O’SHEA | 10 MINS
Charting an emotional history of the former West Clare Railway, this warm and compelling film resurrects the railroad through the locals’ reveries.
JOHN GUNNING: BIG IN JAPAN
DIR. NICKY LARKIN | 8 MINS
John Gunning tells his unlikely story - of moving from Ireland to Japan, of becoming a sumo wrestler and eventually competing in the world championships.
PICTURE ME GONE
DIR. KATIE MCFADDEN | 3 MINS
A holistic trip to the aquarium prompts a meditation on disconnection and loneliness in the modern world from the perspective of an ocean dweller.
NINE COUNTIES
DIR. PENNY MCGOVERN | 5 MINS
The Winter Solstice as seen through the lens of a Super 8 road movie; a vignette painted through impressions of the land, the sights, the sounds and the local radio stations.
STREAM
DIR. JACK HOGAN | 18 MINS
From our viewpoint of a camera mounted on a bike frame, we travel across London in this experimental essay concerned with time, repetition and patterns of collectivity.
AIRPLANE MODE
DIR. KATIE QUINN | 9 MINS
Katie flies to Paris but gets caught up in her anxieties of air travel - what movie to watch? How is that girl still on TikTok? What if the plane blows up? Sacré bleu!