'Visibility Moderate' by Vivienne Dick

Vivienne Dick's first film after the New York series takes her back to
her native Ireland. Using Super-8 film as a parody of the 'travelogue'
or home-movie style film, Dick takes a expatriate, tourist look at her
homeland. The narrative follows Margaret Ann Irinsky as the American
tourist trekking from a Dublin populated by Hare Krishnas and rock
music, to the horse-drawn carriages in the west of Ireland and the
kissing of the Blarney stone. The quaint perception of Ireland and the
Americanization of the native culture are contrasted with interviews
from sectarian prisoners and footage of political marches.

As in all her work, Dick uses a mixture of verité shots which capture
the essence of the locality and intersperses them with images which have
a totally different feel. This method is used to highlight issues in a
subtle way wherein the camera takes an active rather than a voyeuristic
role.

'From Hell To Heaven' By Khaled Abu Ajamia
Palestine 2005

A 17-year-old Palestinian girl arrives at a large shopping mall in
Israel wearing a belt of explosives. At the last minute, she decides not
to press the button. How did she manage to persuade a military group to
prepare her for a suicide operation? What lies behind her decision to be
a suicide bomber, and what makes her change her mind?

Filmmaker, Khaled Abu Ajamia, 43, worked as a cameraman for local and
international media in Bethlehem until 2002, when he was finally given
an opportunity to leave his refugee camp. He decided to travel around
Europe & document how Palestinians how were exiled after the siege.

Khaled is now in asylum in Ireland and at risk from both Israel &
Palestinians extremists after making this film. He has two films
currently in production, one about local hidden history in Dundrum, and
the other about Munich in 1972 (Windows in Rome ), which presents the
other side to Spielberg's last film.

Chris Shepherd Retrospective

The retrospective will feature a number of Chris Shepherd's award
winning films, from his BAFTA nominated short, 'Dad’s Dead' (2003) to ‘Who I Am and What I Want' (2005) and latest work ‘Silence is Golden’ (2006).

'dads dead'

Through a series of ghostly reminiscences a young man tries to piece
together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by
admiration for his best friend Johnno.

As the story unfolds, hero worship turns to revulsion, as the web of
deception and violence that Johnno creates is revealed, pulling narrator
and audience into its destructive wake. Manipulated live-action mutates
and combines with ghostly digital animation.

'Who I Am and What I Want'

a film by David Shrigley & Chris Shepherd

A scribbled, strangely funny but highly unsettling examination of the
human condition. The story of a man who bares his emotions, history,
hang ups and desires in all of their dysfunctional absurdity then leaves
us to assemble not only his identity but to question our own.

'Silence is Golden'

Chris Shepherd

Set in the 1970s - complete with appropriately unstylish wallpaper and
dress codes - the film tells the story of a young boy, Billy (Conor
Morris), and his "spastic" neighbour Dennis (Andrew Dunford). Dennis'
penchant for banging on walls drives Billy's mother up them and Billy to
misconceptions about the troubled old man.