FILM ART

This circular structure is an ancient Irish well — In Irish folklore there is the motif of the “salmon of knowledge" residing in a well. One theory proposes that the traditional “well” creature would have been a coiled snake, and since snakes are unknown in Ireland, this symbol was replaced with that of a salmon. I find this interesting when considered in relation to the idea of “spiralled water” — water where the molecules have been aligned into a more easily absorbed form, with many health ben

The path is not a journey it is a conduit, you’re not travelling on it, it is travelling to you

THE HEART OF THE FURNACE
FORGED IN SOUL

Poem by Paul Casey
Read by Aidan Stanley
Drone pilot Elgan Loane

Olympos wind chimes in the holly tree.
The same pentatonic scale as the koto.

threshold is a powerful place of communication between the opposing worlds that lie on either side of it

Part of a Phd curation project at The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork.
This short film examines the concept of the gallery as a "frame," outlining and focusing the internal exhibition through its architectonic structural and decorative detail, much in the manner of a medieval tabernacle frame.
The exhibition in question, Everything Must Go, which in itself "frames" aspects of the concept of "value" in art, is never seen, only the patina of curation; the building, the remnants of

THE SYMBOLIC FOREST
A THRESHOLD SYMBOL
THE MIND

"V" is part one of a seven part film based on the idea of a spiritual line drawn across the Irish landscape. MATERIALS uses various cinematographic techniques to play with time and space, presenting us with an impression of the common Earth elements that are at once alien yet strangely familiar.
The score was produced by David in conjunction with ambient and sound art producers Tom Green (The Orb, Another Fine Day) and Dare Mason (Noctorum).

This work was produced through a project award fr

DARKWATERS 1
C2 CRAWFORD GALLERY 2005

Future Land – “A Strange Awakening” 8min
This piece is about those moments spent under night skies witnessing the dark majesty of nature.
Although these spectacles appear solid and complete, they are near impossible to capture on film or video. It is as if we as humans have a special facility within us to “grade” each aspect separately, yet at once, the dark hills, a wind rustled bush and the whirling stars.
This piece generates this view using various

THE ELEMENTS
ALIEN TO MAN
YET STRANGELY FAMILIAR

THE MIND OF MAN
INTERFACED WITH NATURE
THE DIALOGUE

THOUGHT SEEDS IN A LANDSCAPE
WITH JOHN HITCHENS

A CAVE IN PERU
SYMBOLS OF THE PAST
WITH FABIO ESTABAN
NAT GEO

IRISH FAERIE LORE
1 HR
RTE TELEVISION
2001

LAPLAND | SAHARA | IRELAND
3 X 40 MIN
CASTLE HENDRING