Ireland
Windswept
as writer, director
A composer enchanted by the wind shows two rebellious eight-year-old sisters how to listen to its hypnotic music.
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Ireland
Noa’s Place
as writer, director
Threatened with eviction due to coastal erosion, a mime artist unable to speak about her past takes her landlord on a boat trip to the heart of her trauma.
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Related Scripts
Matty’s Ennui & Patrick’s Pursuit
A Triptych of Loss
A Triptych of Loss is a portmanteau film exploring trauma from the perspectives of three characters and comprising three interrelated stories: Noa’s Place, Matty’s Ennui, and Patrick’s Pursuit. As the protagonists deal with their unique experiences of self-erasure in response to something irrevocably lost in the past, the present, or the future, they slip into a dreamscape of an inaccessible temporality, failing to engage with reality. But when they cross paths, can they help each other re-discover their own sense of bearings, or will they lead one another further astray?
Matty's Ennui
In development
A reluctant farmer dreaming of becoming a singer is given the opportunity of a lifetime, only to discover that what stands in his way is not the farm but his ennui.
Patrick's Pursuit
In development
Patrick is a musician who has it all until he meets a dark and mysterious woman who fills him with infinite wonder. When she disappears suddenly, he resolves to find her, whatever it takes and however far he must wander, even to infinity.
Project specifications
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Drama portmanteau film consisting of three short films (20-25 minutes each).
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A Triptych of Loss unites three short films about trauma. Noa’s Place presents a psychoanalytic portrayal, with its protagonist Noa suffering from the ghostly wound of a “missing origin“ she must continuously account for. Matty’s Ennui and Patrick’s Pursuit take a more playful, “deconstructivist” approach and reflect on trauma as one’s ongoing struggle to define oneself in the face of the other. While Matty is afraid to encounter change and leave his enclosure of stability, Patrick chooses a path of discovery, where life cannot be but risked.
With Noa staring into the murky ocean, Matty being stuck in the mucky field, and Patrick chasing a star in the Milky Way, the anthology captures experiences of loss, ranging from tragic to comedic. As the characters deal with an experience of self-erasure in response to something irrevocably gone in the past, present, or future, they slip into a dreamscape of an inaccessible temporality, failing to engage with reality, until finally challenged to confront it.
Each protagonist, thus, leads one of the films and makes an appearance in the others, weaving the three shorts into a single narrative, illuminated by their perspectives and inviting the audience to embrace the traumatic nature of being with compassion and (a bit of) laughter.
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All three short films are set in the same rural location in the West of Ireland.