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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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We Saw You from Across the Bar
In honour of Pride, I’m releasing a queer film we created for KinoD in 2024. Ellie and Alex are in love. They’ve been together years. Sure it’s not the most exciting relationship, but their friends always tell them they’re the perfect couple. Tonight they’ve decided to spice things up. They’re meeting someone from the apps… Read more
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FILM SHOWING – Bring Your OWN FILM CLUB
My experimental short documentary – ‘Good Boys’, is to feature in next weeks Bring Your Own FIlm (BYOF) Club night in Dublin. BYOF an initiative which began in January of this year, brings together shorts from emerging Dublin filmmakers, each introduced by the filmmakers themselves. I love intimate screenings like this one. Anything which promotes… Read more
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HeALDSBURG FILM FEstival
My short ‘Known to the Gardai‘ has been selected for the renowned Healdsburg International Short Film Festival, in Sonoma County California. The cast and crew have all been invited to attend the festival. I couldn’t be more exited to head stateside in September, as by then it will be seven years since I visited the… Read more
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Caucasus Cinema – 2026
I recently attended the 7th edition of Caucasus Cinema, a bi-annual filmmaking residency in Georgia. The residency is organised by film and radiomakers Vladic Ravich and Sopho Chkheidze, and takes the form of a voluntaryist collective. Food and transport expenses are shared and attendees stay in donated accommodation in villages across Georgia. Each of the… Read more
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Film Showing – Speak of the Devil
My short collaboration with Ed Devane, ‘What is Lost Can Never Be Found’ recently screened at Gallery X, as part of the ‘Speak of the Devil‘ exhibition. I was honoured to be featured alongside work from 40 Irish and International artists, including Morg Armeni and Andrii Strachov. Alas I was travelling for most of May… Read more
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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
Gareth Stack 