'The Proceeds of Crime' in Galway Film Fleadh!

Jazis! My latest no-budget collaged animated offering 'The Proceeds of Crime' is scheduled as the closing film in this year's Galway Film Fleadh - New Irish Shorts, Programme 8, on Sun 10 July in the Town Hall Theatre at 12.00. I've described 'Proceeds' as 'an alphabetical journey through Ireland's 2016 gangland'. Thanks to Jennie Kelly for producing!

Congrats also to IADT graduates Fionn Boland, Catherine O Brien, Kimi Kurbanova, Elle Power and Ruth Redmond, Fiona Ryan, Olya Golubeva, Keith Kavanagh and Kayleigh Scullion for getting their films into the same programme!!!

http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/index.php/project/new-irish-shorts-8-animation/

'collage' in 2015 Galway Film Fleadh and no Frameworks

I did promise last year that 'A Warning To All Kings' would be my last self-funded short film ever! My latest animated short offering, a more experimental piece called 'collage' features multiple animation techniques and is 'an often abstract attempt to depict tortured lives and loves in the Ireland of 2015.'

The title of the piece is a respectful nod to filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, whose incredible house museum I look forward to returning to later this year, in Yerevan in Armenia. Imprisoned many times by the soviet authorities, Parajanov said 'I was not allowed to make movies and I started to make collages. Collage is a compressed film.'

Thanks to Ruth Matthews and Daniel Gallagher for the voices on 'collage' and thanks to ace producer Fionn Boland for looking after festival entries et cetera!

On a downside, my latest Frameworks application was shot down earlier this week - not even shortlisted, extremely disappointing. What can I say?

http://parajanovmuseum.am/

http://quindpdp.blogspot.ie/2014/01/yerevan-sergey-parajanov.html

http://quindpdp.blogspot.ie/2014/05/my-last-short-film-ever.html

Jazis - ANAMU Newsletter from 1992?

Mention of THE QUINS in an ancient copy of an ANAMU Newsletter... Who dug this up? Though marked from 1993, I think it's probably from 1992, when my first short film 'To Forget' started doing the rounds on the film festival circuit. As Pegbar's Daniel says 'a pinnacle changing point of Irish Animation?'

Seems like yesterday? No... Seems like a LONG long time ago!

Thanks to Daniel from Pegbar and to Cathal and Doc for the Twitter mentions!

Here's a Youtube link to a rough SD version of 'To Forget'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL-NLR3bpeA&list=UUT34LrcyJLGwiMF6CmyhPKA

IADT Animation at 2013 Galway Film Fleadh

Great IADT DL041 Animation success at the 2013 Galway Film Fleadh, with grads Claire Lennon, Matt Porter, Rory Kerr, John Peavoy, Natalie ni Chleirigh, Thomas Young, Alan O' Cuileann and Eamonn O' Neill all screening films. DQ also screened his disgraceful 'Furniture - Murder and Love' animation.

some of the 2013 IADT Galway screeners

Rory Kerr won 'Best First Animation' with his 'That's Not supposed to Happen' and Alan O' Cuileann won 'The Don Quijote Prize' with his Frameworks 'CODA'. Congrats to all - screeners and winners alike...

Matt Porter's image of winner Rory Kerr!