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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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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
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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
