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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Known To the Gardai – New Comedy Short
It’s been quite a while since I made a comedy. So long in fact that it predates my ability to use a camera. Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s I performed as a standup comedian, and a member of the improv group ‘Tickled By Freaks’. I wrote a couple of absurd comic novels, Read more
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An Eye For Stamps
The Hardliners Writing Collective are a group of blind and visually impaired people who meet weekly to write and read their stories and poetry. The group is organised by the multimedia performance installation artist and curator Sinéad Keogh. This is a bonus scene from my documentary ‘Sightless Cinema‘, available now on RTE Player. Read more
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Sightless Cinema Documentary
Two years ago I remigrated from Berlin with three months severance and no work lined up. Ciaran Taylor offered to hire me to film some of the upcoming Sightless Cinema shows, ten years after I first reported on, then helped sound engineer some of their first productions. On the 6th August, 11.15PM on RTE1 the Read more
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10 Serious Davinci Resolve Bugs
I’ve been editing with DaVinci Resolve for quite a while, well over a decade in fact. It’s a terrific piece of software and gets more capable and competitive with each regular release. However, as with all complex pieces of multi-functional software, DaVinci is prone to bugs. In the past Blackmagic Design have shown a reluctance Read more
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Georgian Irish Film festival
I’d like to invite you to an evening of Georgian Films at the Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire on 2nd May 2025, 7PM – 9PM! Visiting Georgia in late 2024, I was inspired by the spirit of Tbilisi and the ongoing struggle for democratic reform. In an effort to raise awareness of the current situation and to Read more
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New links for my writing
Fifteen years after it became cool, I’ve started posting snippets of my writing on social media. I’ve been writing poetry and fiction for thirty-some years. Better to throw it up and cave to the beauty contest of social media than have most of it sit on a google drive. If you like your media social, Read more
Gareth Stack 