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INDEX

Press

Making-of

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."

Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA)
Screen Discussion Series

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

Making a Title Sequence on Film
in Lockdown

Seattle International Film Festival
North American Premiere
Washington, USA

Perth International Film Festival:
Fireside Chat with Jack Sargeant 

★★★★
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."

RTE Culture article:
Like a hole in the head

Festival de Sevilla
In Competition / European Premiere
Seville, Spain

Official Poster

Rating by Irish Film Classification Office 

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

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."

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

Shooting sync-sound 16mm

Research into Amateur Movie-making

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

Introducing the film & cast

Welcome

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

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

Belfast Film Festival
UK Premiere
Belfast, Northern Ireland

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)

Perth International Film Festival
Perth, Australia

Festival Ecrã
Rio de Janeiro

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


34th Galway Film Fleadh
World Premiere
Galway

Donald Clarke (The Irish Times Feature):
"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"

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

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

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

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

 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"

Wicklow Times
Greystones filmmaker set for Dublin Debut

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