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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"

★★★★
Paul Whitington (Irish Independent)
"Kavanagh's visually inventive film manages to draw you into its labyrinthine world, and has a winning sense of humour"

Making a Title Sequence on Film
in Lockdown

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

Shooting sync-sound 16mm

Belfast Film Festival
UK Premiere
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Research into Amateur Movie-making

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

Introducing the film & cast

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)

Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA)
Screen Discussion Series

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

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

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

Welcome

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"

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

Perth International Film Festival
Perth, Australia

Festival Ecrã
Rio de Janeiro


34th Galway Film Fleadh
Galway

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"

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

Perth International Film Festival:
Fireside Chat with Jack Sargeant 

RTE Culture article:
Like a hole in the head

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