Joe Comerford Filmes

  • 1973
    Withdrawal

    Withdrawal

    Withdrawal

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    Based on the writings of David Chapman and Jimmy Brennan, Withdrawal is about Jimmy, a heroin user in a Dublin psychiatric hospital. His thoughts and...

    Withdrawal
  • 1984
    Waterbag

    Waterbag

    Waterbag

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    A precursor to Reefer and the Model, Waterbag involves the relationship between two fishermen and a pregnant woman, and ends with an apparently...

    Waterbag
  • 1981
    Traveller

    Traveller

    Traveller

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    Reluctantly-married young Irish travellers Michael and Angela head north of the border at the behest of Angela’s father, to smuggle electrical...

    Traveller
  • 2008
    Roadside

    Roadside

    Roadside

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    Comerford's first digital short which evolved into an installation, is an audacious blur of ugliness and beauty. Drawing on found footage from...

    Roadside
  • 1984
    Atlantean

    Atlantean

    Atlantean

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    Documentary about the Irish, dispelling the myth that they are all of pure Celtic heritage, but showing them as the mix of races they really are, and...

    Atlantean
  • 1993
    High Boot Benny

    High Boot Benny

    High Boot Benny

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    A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated near the border between Ulster and Eire. There are three suspects: the protestant...

    High Boot Benny
  • 1988
    Reefer and the Model

    Reefer and the Model

    Reefer and the Model

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    Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to...

    Reefer and the Model
  • 1971
    Emtigon

    Emtigon

    Emtigon

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    In this pitch-black vaudeville of impotence and aggression, Emtigon tragicomically details a homeless old man's covert intrusion into the life of a...

    Emtigon
  • 1977
    Down the Corner

    Down the Corner

    Down the Corner

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    A group of Ballyfermot schoolboys attempt to rob an orchard in the more affluent, nearby suburb of Chapelizod.

    Down the Corner
  • 1975
    Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire

    Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire

    Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire

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    A group of unruly Irish stage actors refuse the orders of their British director as he orchestrates a dramatic retelling of Eibhlín Dubh...

    Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire
  • 1976
    Self Portrait with Red Car

    Self Portrait with Red Car

    Self Portrait with Red Car

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    An artist attempts to draw but has difficulty reconciling what he sees with what he hears.

    Self Portrait with Red Car