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Press

Making-of

Select Screenings

★★★★
Donald Clarke (The Irish Times)
"Extraordinary"

"The filmmaker's invention and intelligence is never in doubt"

"After a decade and a half of experimental work, Kavanagh delivers a fascinating puzzle piece that balances abstract oddity with genuine narrative intrigue."

★★★★
Paul Whitington (Irish Independent)
"Kavanagh’s visually inventive film manages to draw you into its labyrinthine world, and has a winning sense of humour: the stuffed rabbit that emerges puckishly above the rim of a bathtub is worthy of Stanley Kubrick."

Making a Title Sequence on Film
in Lockdown

RTE Culture article:
Like a hole in the head

Official Poster

Irish Theatrical Release

Eye Cinema Galway
(September 30th - October 6th)
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Triskel Cinema, Cork
(September 4th - 8th)

IFI Irish Film Institute, Dublin
(August 12th - 25th)

Shooting sync-sound 16mm

Research into Amateur Movie-making

Introducing the film & cast

Welcome

WINNER: BEST FEATURE FILM
New Jersey Film Festival
New Jersey Premiere
New Jersey, USA

Seattle International Film Festival
North American Premiere
Washington, USA

Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA)
Screen Discussion Series

Festival de Sevilla
In Competition / European Premiere
Seville, Spain

Istanbul International
Experimental Film Festival
In Competition / Turkish Premiere
Istanbul, Turkey

★★★★
Brendan O'Connor Show, RTE Radio 1
One-to-watch

★★★★
The Irish Times
Top 4 Films to watch in cinemas this week
 

Interviews

The Irish Times Feature - Donald Clarke
"When the mainstream just isn't enough:
The release of Hole in the Head shows there’s space in Irish cinemas for the avant-garde"

Perth International Film Festival
Podcast
Interview with Jack Sargeant
 

Elena Lazic (Cineuropa)
"Mystifying and moving, bleak and funny, the film builds to a finale as strange as it is oddly powerful."

Moving Image Artists (MIA) Journal 
Cast interview with Borja Castillejo Calvo in

Belfast Film Festival
UK Premiere
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Perth International Film Festival
Perth, Australia

Film Ireland - Podcast
Interview with Gemma Creagh 

Daniela Urzola (Caimán CDC)
"A totally fresh perspective, demonstrating the possibility of the co-existence of narrative with experimental"

Bremen International Film Festival
In Competition / German Premiere
Bremen, Germany

Ruairí McCann (Ultra Dogme):
"one of the finest Irish films in recent years" 

"a simultaneously profound, absurd, deracinating, and visceral experience."

Daniel Fee - Podcast
Interview with Daniel Fee

Press Play and Surrender - Podcast
Interview with Eoghan McQuinn

Ciara Chambers (IAMHIST)
"Tantalisingly mysterious...utterly original and self-consciously cineliterate... it paves the way for other filmmakers to share experimental work unapologetically with 'mainstream' audiences."

Fountain Resource

Interview with Craig O'Reilly

Weekly Wheatley - Podcast
Interview with Derek Wheatley

Wicklow Times
Greystones filmmaker set for Dublin Debut

Festival Ecrã
Rio de Janeiro


34th Galway Film Fleadh
World Premiere
Galway

Borja Castillejo Calvo (Cinesinfin):
"tremendously innovative"...opening towards new cinematic codes"

★★★★
Javier Acevedo (EAM Cinema)
"An inexhaustible film... developed in the acid of vampiric curiosity"

 Qué hay para ver:
"Kavanagh manages to authentically touch deep threads of reality."

"Experimental, hallucinatory, conceptual and profound. A philosophical and sensory experience"
 

El Séptimo Arte
"Not even a decade attending film festivals exempts anyone from surprises as indescribable as Hole in the Head"

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