Spirit Level

Name: Spirit Level
Director: Eóin Heaney
Released: 2021-07-24
Cast: Toni O'Rourke, Emmet Byrne

2021 · 21 min

A reading of Seamus Heaney's poem Mycenae Lookout propels Cassandra, a young actress, into addressing her own personal trauma during the sectarian violence of 1990's Northern Ireland. A sensorial and immersive trip into a young woman’s psyche, Spirit Level, boldly dissects the emotional manipulation of re-enactment, cinema as an unreliable historian, and the vampiric relationship between identity and performance.

Directed by Eóin Heaney · Written by Eóin Heaney

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