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Our current feature documentary 'Pyjama Girls' has recently been screened to three sold out shows at Dublin's Stranger Than Fiction documentary festival. Over the course of a year, 'Pyjama Girls' follows the lives of a group of teenage girls who wear pyjamas as daywear, all day, every day. Focussing principally on teenagers Lauren and Tara, the film tracks the intense micro-dramas of teenage life in the close-knit community of the Basin Street Flats in Dublin's inner city.
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Still Films
Founded by Maya Derrington, Nicky Gogan, and Paul Rowley.
Still Films is a production company based in Dublin and New York. Our company focuses on the production of TV, 360 productions, feature films, animations, documentaries and artist films. We are committed to pursuing new approaches to filmmaking in all genres: drama, documentary, entertainment, horror, science fiction, and animation.
The goal of our company is to produce highly creative work and to market our productions to the widest audience possible, taking full advantage of both traditional and new avenues of distribution.
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An hour north of Dublin beside the sea is a bizarre looking collection of grey cement buildings with brightly painted doors, and rusting fairground rides. This is Mosney - Ireland’s Coney Island. A former Butlin’s holiday camp, Mosney was once a world fully equipped for entertainment, with arcades, fairground rides, holiday chalets. It was a place where Irish families would escape the daily grind of work in order to relax, to dance, enjoy themselves.
A visit to Mosney today presents a radically different picture, but still a picture of escape. This former holiday camp is now a camp of another kind, a holding center for asylum seekers from all corners of the globe. Here new residents wait years for the results of their asylum claims.
Once brought here, how do these displaced people adapt to this strange new environment? How does this prolonged detention affect their aspirations, their ambitions, their mental health? Is this a place to begin healing, or does the uncertainty create new forms of trauma? And how does the culture of hospitality carry over with the staff, many of them working and living here for over forty years.
Over three years, the filmmakers lived in Mosney, gaining the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the epic to the everyday. From Congo, Kurdistan, Nigeria, Somalia, Sri Lanka, we hear why people are forced to leave everything they have and move to a country where they are total strangers. And we learn of the trauma of waiting – living in fear in this bizarre no-mans-land.
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Directed by Paul Rowley and Nicky Gogan
Produced by Maya Derrington, Paul Rowley and Nicky Gogan. Music by Dennis McNulty.
Official Selection: Berlin Film Festival. Hot Docs. Silverdocs. Sheffield Doc/Fest. Galway Film Fleadh. Guth Gafa. Rio De Janeiro Festival. Dokufest Kosovo. Sao Paulo Film Festival.
Awards: Honourable Mention, Documentary Awards, DMZ Doc Fest, South Korea 2009.
More Information: www.stillfilms.org
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Alibi is a map of hidden evidence. Alibi is a map of regret. Alibi is a physical map through frozen landscapes where the darkness in human nature is revealed.
In a small Irish midland town a woman is brutally murdered while returning to her family for Christmas. When questioned by police, Paddy gives his workmate John a cover story. Twenty years later John is charged with murder and Paddy’s lie is now an alibi.
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Directed & Produced by Darren Bolger, Caroline Campbell. Sound Design by Philip Stewart.
TRT: 13.03 mins HD
Official Screenings: Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cork Film Festival, Dublin International Film Festival, Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival, Curtocircuito International Short Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Galway Film Fleadh, Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Awards: Honourable Mention, Short Documentary Awards, Galway Film Fleadh 2010
More Information: www.darrenbolger.com
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The video work is based on an anonymous photograph that was taken in December 1989 during the Romanian revolution against the Communist regime in Bucharest. By reconstructing this historical image well stocked in our collective consciousness, the filmmaker is analyzing the way that a fabricated image can reconfigure our relationship to historical truth.
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Directed and Animated by Istvan Laslo.
Produced by Nicky Gogan.
Istvan Laslo is represented by the Plan-B Gallery in Cluj, Romania.
More Information: www.plan-b.ro
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"Surface Noise" is a new collaborative video work by artists David Phillips, Paul Rowley and Tim Blue. The artists worked with proprietary instruments typically used in film restoration labs to scan 35mm film prints for damage. By re-programming the machines, the artists were able to isolate only the damaged elements of old film prints, the dust, dirt, and scratches. The original film was then deleted from the files, and what remains is a digital record of the markings of time and use on the physical material of the film itself. This extraction process becomes recorded as a digital portrait of physical residue.
The image is abstract, but holds on to briefly discernible traces of the original in fleeting flashes and bursts of grainy activity. The images and films selected focus in particular on excerpts from the archives of cinema which depict political conflict, demonstrations, riots, and state interventions in public assembly. As the damaged images rush across the screen, interesting parallels emerge between the mechanics of cinema and patterns social disturbance and unrest.
The process of creating the soundtrack followed the making of the images. The artists began with audible time code tracks, bursts of digital signal that are used to keep image and audio in sync on tape, and transferred them to old quarter inch reel-to-reel magnetic tape decks. The tape deck was then played much like an instrument as the signals were fed back into a computer. The results are sounds that are rooted in the strict rigidity of time stamped formats, but yet take on a perceptible human component as the signal is degraded and re-recorded.
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David Phillips, Paul Rowley and Tim Blue.
TRT: 6.44 mins HD
Gallery Screenings: The Nerve centre, Derry.
MORE INFORMATION: WWW.CONDENSATE.NET
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In a swirl of pom poms, twirling batons, sparkle and feathers, Rialto Twirlers captures a secret moment of unity and beauty as dancers rehearse their routine for the final time before a national majorette competition. Not as acrobatic as their American cheer leader compatriots or as military as their marching bands founders, The Rialto Twirlers are a creative fusion of hard graft, skill and energy that is associated with our pluralistic age in which anything is possible.
This observational documentary short film incorporates their passion for performing whilst capturing a subculture whose beginnings evoke a sense of nostalgia and a forgotten skill – baton twirling.
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Directed and Edited by Anne Maree Barry. Produced by Nicky Gogan. Cinematography by Tim Hood.
Music by Duncan Murphy. TRT: 5.23 mins HD
Official Screenings: Dublin International Film Festival, Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival.
Gallery Screenings: The Lab, Foley St., Dublin.
More Information: www.annemareebarry.com
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A recut of a music video by director Eoghan Kidney made for the Dublin band Delorentos track - S.E.C.R.E.T - this time retimed to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Waltz.
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Directed by Eoghan Kidney
More Information: www.eoghankidney.com
Films @ Cake
In recent years the landscape of filmmaking and filmmakers has changed in Ireland due to a number of factors including easier access to digital cameras and the possibility of creating work cheaply. Cake contemporary arts propose to capitalize on the current interest in film by putting out a call for submissions of short films to run for four weeks in its downstairs gallery/cinema and conference centre at allotted times.
Due to the limited opportunities provided for screening short films in Ireland outside the major festivals such as Cork Film Festival and Galway Film Fleadh, Cake will promote and screen works from all over Ireland under a number of headings including documentary, narrative, animation, experimental and artist films with an emphasis on original compelling work. Cake invited a selection of work in 2011/12 to be curated by Darren Bolger.
The screenings will allow Irish short filmmakers the opportunity to have their work viewed by the public in Cake's facilities and acknowledged as a viable and important art form. A number of selected filmmakers will also be invited to talk about their work on the opening weekend and take part on paneled discussions in the newly renovated Watertower conference centre in the Curragh Camp. The discussions topics will focus on the landscape of short filmmaking in Ireland and how it can be improved.
We view this project as being possibly an annual production which will emphasize the creative possibilities of short film production and open up the area of filmmaking to the wider public in the Kildare, surrounding areas and further a field.
Darren Bolger studied in Crawford College of Art and has a background in the visual arts and electronic media. He was a member of the Martello Multimedia team that won the Glen Dimplex design awards. Darren also holds a BA in Film from DIT and a film production MA from University College Dublin. Darren has experience working on a range of film projects including documentary feature ‘Seaview’, which had its world premier at the Berlinale in February 2008. In 2009 he was awarded an Irish Film Board 'Reality Bites' short documentary grant which was screened at Cork Film Festival 2009 and Dublin International Film Festival 2010.
Darren directed short documentary ‘Benzodreams’ which was screened in the Burren College of Art Gallery, Clare, the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand, the Guth Gafa documentary festival in Donegal and the Red Stables Gallery in Dublin. Other projects Darren has been creatively involved with as Art Director and Editor have had screenings at both international and Irish festivals.