Directing
Joe Comerford
Born December 12, 1947 · Dublin, Ireland (age 78)
Joe Comerford was born in 1947 in Dublin, Ireland, graduating from the National College of Art and Design in the 1960s. In the 1970s, he began working for RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster, where he learned camera operating and general studio production. Two years later, he left RTÉ to make independent films. All his films share a general concern for those on the margins of what was an increasin…
Known For
Roadside · 2008Roadside
2008
MovieDrama
Comerford's first digital short which evolved into an installation, is an audacious blur of ugliness and beauty. Drawing on found footage from personal archives, it outlines an encounter between a man and a woman in a stolen car.
Cinegael Paradiso · 2004Cinegael Paradiso
★ 7.02004
MovieDocumentary
Cinegael is an independent cinema set up by filmmaker Bob Quinn in the 1970's, in which his son, the director Robert Quinn, lived as a child. The film focuses on the contribution the cinema made to the cultural life of the community, but also to the Irish film industry itself, acting as a home for, and catalyst to, radical ideas and attitudes within the film industry at the time.
Traveller · 1981Traveller
★ 9.01981
MovieDrama
Reluctantly-married young Irish travellers Michael and Angela head north of the border at the behest of Angela’s father, to smuggle electrical equipment back to resell. Joining up with IRA man Clicky on the way, the ill-matched couple embark on an uneasy journey marked by blood and murder.
Waterbag · 1984Waterbag
1984
MovieDrama
A precursor to Reefer and the Model, Waterbag involves the relationship between two fishermen and a pregnant woman, and ends with an apparently self-induced miscarriage.
Atlantean · 1984Atlantean
1984
MovieDocumentary
Documentary about the Irish, dispelling the myth that they are all of pure Celtic heritage, but showing them as the mix of races they really are, and portraying the island not as the remote outpost of Europe most people think it is, but as a busy meeting place for seafaring traders of the Atlantic all through history.
Emtigon · 1971Emtigon
1971
MovieDrama
In this pitch-black vaudeville of impotence and aggression, Emtigon tragicomically details a homeless old man's covert intrusion into the life of a young female social worker.
Reefer and the Model · 1988Reefer and the Model
★ 5.41988
MovieDramaAdventure
Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. They head to the trawler where he lives with friends Spider and Badger, that operates between Galway and the Aran Islands. The makeshift family are forced to turn to crime to make a living.
High Boot Benny · 1993High Boot Benny
★ 8.01993
MovieDrama
A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated near the border between Ulster and Eire. There are three suspects: the protestant school headmistress; Marley, an unfrocked missionary priest; and Benny, a seventeen-year-old criminal who has taken sanctuary in the school...
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