Rory Carroll

FAITH AND MIRRORS Behold! is a hand-painted short film. Drawing on the work of Ted Hughes and Gustave Doré, this short explores the theme of faith in its many forms. Every frame of the film was meticulously painted and photographed, the process of animation itself becoming a form of faith, with each new layer of paint permanently covering the last.

At the dawn of cinema and the notion of a moving image, a fierce battle commenced between inventors Louis Le Prince and Thomas Edison to conceive and design a machine capable of projecting multiple frames a second, thus taming light and shadow. EQUITY 6928, slips back in time through the archives and spins a tale of intrigue, murderous intent and nefarious corporate interests.

Katie flies to Paris but gets caught up in her anxieties of air travel - what movie to watch? How is that girl still on TikTok? What if the plane blows up? Sacré bleu!

“What do we say anymore to conjure the salt of our earth?” 400 meters under the surface in coastal Antrim, machinery and poetry echo out from the depths of Ireland's only active salt mine. Featuring and inspired by Seamus Heaney’s “The Singers House”, this short documentary takes a poetic view of the salt mine as both an artificial space and a natural environment, finding a sense of humanity in its alien sounds and structures.

Dody Shaw, son of a prominent Ulster businessman, hires a video crew to ease tensions with the local community after buying a historic linen mill in East Belfast.

Picture Me Gone draws a lyrical parallel between animals confined in aquariums and our relationship to screens. Shot on an iPhone 13, its blurred visuals and meditative soundscape explore disconnection and longing in artificial worlds.

A young girls obsession with the King of Pop 8 years after his death leads to an obsession with a stranger and a hurricane.

The absurd ways in which we are forced to find comfort in our increasingly alienating and online world are brought to the fore in this essay film on homesickness and livestreams.