1:00 s114 Irish Shorts
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------The War Room
Directed by: Eamon Murphy
3:45''
The world is at war. The remaining military leaders have assembled in bunkers spread across the world in a last ditch attempt to regain control of the situation. We are brought to one of these bunkers just as the American president is about to make his final stand. Aided by a ruthless Russian military advisor, President Pullman issues his final orders to his remaining loyal soldiers in the war against an unseen enemy. It has already eradicated half of the world and is showing no signs of stopping. The last hope for humanity lies in the hands of these brave few.
The Screem
Directed by: Brigit McCone
6:42"
Brian, an artist obsessed with Edvard Munch, is working on a mural. Huddled, half-naked and shivering in his darkened studio, he strives to create an original image. To capture on paint the images that flicker behind his eyes. As his obsession grows, he falls further from reality, driving away his girlfriend and muse, Clare, who is leaving him. Can Bryan win her back with the perfect painting? Can he capture his truth and splash it wide across the walls for all the world to see? And could Clare ever be more to him than a blank canvas?
The lines between imagination and reality, Munch and originality, love and lunacy begin to blur. His thoughts and spoken words, his hallucinations and reality bleed into one another until it is impossible to tell which is which. Until the paintings in his head become more vivid than the outside world.
'The Scream' blends painted images, wax sculptures and live action, dissolving them into each other to create an ever-shifting expressionistic landscape that changes at the speed of thought and memory, set against a fragmented, multi-layered soundscape.
It creates a vision of cinema as, literally, 'moving pictures'.
The Tin Man
Directed by: Ged Murray
7:36"
Brendan is made of tin. He relies on his girlfriend Kate to wind him up and oil him. Kate is unhappy with the relationship and Brendan doesn’t take the breakup very well.
Better the Angel You Know
Directed by: Jamie Brennan
8"
As punishment for their bad attitude, God sends two wayward angels down to Dublin on a career break.
When everything begins to go wrong, their former Angelic existence doesn't seem quite as bad as they once thought.
A Silent Tragedy
Directed by: Noel McEilligott
10:50"
The film opens with George staring out the window.He is a haunted man who is unable to cope with the tragic death of his pregnent girlfriend.The film follows George going through his daily rountine without emotion.Hes mental and physical exhaustion leads him to falling asleep in the bathtub resulting in a haunting dream.As he climbs out of the tub in shock, he finally decides the final outcome of his faith.In the end a terrible tragedy unfolds at his own hands.
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