Conall McCauley

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.

“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.

In rural Ireland in the 1840s, a land dispute makes a man kill his brother. He buries the body at the bottom of his field but soon, his crops begin to die. This earthy horror blends the pagan traditions of the English folk horror cycle with more surreal and paranoid sensibilities, viscerally placing you into the protagonist’s deteriorating mind.

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.

A young journalist must find a story in Belfast before midnight or lose his job.