Dean Kavanagh

Hole in the Head (2022)

Hole in the Head is an experimental feature film in which the protagonist re-stages his family's home movies in order to recall a traumatic event. Melding new with old technologies and a film-within-a-film structure, Hole in the Head proposes a hauntologi ...

Animal Kingdom (2017)

Earth. Wind. Fire. Water. Sacrifice. In Animal Kingdom a ritual carves a dimension that melds character, object, landscape and the very tactile makeup of the film itself into one mutating, symphonic mass of spell casting, storytelling, living and dying. An ...

Cloud of Skin (2015)

Haunted by the memory of a blind woman with visionary powers, a man revisits the sites of their love affair. Rather than unfolding as a traditional narrative, Le Cain's first feature is an immersive and dreamlike exploration of memory and vision. Shot in a ...

Cut to the Chase (2015)

Cut to the chase was a phrase used by Hollywood studio executives, meaning "don't bore us with the dialogue - get to the interesting scenes without unnecessary delay." Cut to the Chase is a film crafted through images captured from a customised telecine ...

The Curse of Johnny Kline 3D (2015)

The latest materialist gesture in cinema's dematerialisation- uncompromising alter-ego Johnny Kline returns in the form of found and partially destroyed early 20th century pornography and found material depicting domestic scenes. Always inappropriate in hi ...

Polar Nights (2015)

The discovery of an ancient artefact. The night extends beyond the grip of reality. The inhabitants of a small community perish. ...

Ten Years In The Sun (2015)

An assortment of obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions flicker on the verge of incoherence against the context of vast cosmic disaster in Rouzbeh Rashidi's boldest film to date. This sensory onslaught combines a homage to the subversive ...

Friends with Johnny Kline (2015)

This found footage project takes the form of four experimental films surrounding the mystery of the titular character. Rather than overtly appearing in each film, Johnny Kline is more a summation of the evils within the film as a whole: he is a monstrosity ...

Return of Suspicion (2014)

A man investigates a memory of places and people. The evidence drifts deeper and deeper into an unforgivable jungle; he might not be the true owner of his memories, his thoughts may not be of his own, it may not even be his body. ...

First Transmission (2014)

'My first movie'. ...

Forbidden Symmetries (2014)

Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they've seen and heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate that an ...

History of Water (2013)

A young man films his family to better understand them and as a result is destroyed by them. ...

All Mortal Flesh (2013)

A contract killer reluctantly accepts a last minute assignment in the run-up to Christmas. The routine job takes an unexpected turn, and he finds himself morally and emotionally challenged. ...

A Harbour Town (2013)

A journey into the dark visions of a small coastal town. Memories of the inhabitants or memories created by the place itself. ...

Backmatter (2) (2013)

The second film in a two-part study of daily routines. ...

Revenants on Trial (2013)

A séance of old and new light. ...

Good Evening (2012)

The troubling hallucinations of a deranged mind. ...

Abandon (2012)

A found-footage film that seeks to sever all narrative ties. ...

Nocturnum (2012)

A compendium of home movies sewn into a fragmented nocturnal narrative on travel ...

Maritime (2012)

A silent film adrift in the lost rooms of an old house. A final letter to an old friend. ...

Sound from the Valley Floor (2012)

Originally conceived as a road movie, Sound from the Valley Floor is at once a film diary and a perverse comedy permeated with a dream logic. ...

Detritus (2011)

The remains of a day. Originally conceived as part of the portmanteau feature film In Passing (2011), which was completed by an international alliance of Remodernist filmmakers. ...

In Passing (2011)

In Passing is a collaboration between seven different filmmakers from around the world in response to Jesse Richards' 2008 Remodernist Film Manifesto. ...

Shellshock (2011)

Ireland, 1923. A young man returns home after fighting for the British Army during World War One. He struggles to settle back in, his memories of the trenches still haunting him. ...

Light from an Old Town (2011)

A man cruises the streets of his old neighbourhood at nightfall. ...

Last Sunday (2011)

The last day of the week is the first day of the week. ...

The Distance (2010)

A young man recalls a fishing trip from his childhood but he is uncertain if it is his own memory. ...

The Man in Autumn (2010)

Onlookers at the canal. ...

Poor Edward (2009)

A relationship unravels during a storm. Poor Edward is considered as part of the official canon of Remodernist Film. ...

Good Arrows (2009)

A darts player slides into depression after an heart attack spooks him so much he loses his skill. ...

Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021) (2021)

Homo Sapiens Project (201) was completed in 2021 as part of re-envisioning and restructuring Rashidi's filmography. This nineteen-hour experimental feature is constituted from many feature films produced between 2002 to 2014. These experimental features we ...

TRAILERS (2016)

TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a scope that is as cosmically vast as a science fiction epic. Rashidi's ongoing exploration into the nature of cinema sees a group of characters adrift in space, each ...

Nineveh (2016)

Stertched images along stretched time. ...

Cloud of Skin (2015)

Haunted by the memory of a blind woman with visionary powers, a man revisits the sites of their love affair. Rather than unfolding as a traditional narrative, Le Cain's first feature is an immersive and dreamlike exploration of memory and vision. Shot in a ...

Polar Nights (2015)

The discovery of an ancient artefact. The night extends beyond the grip of reality. The inhabitants of a small community perish. ...

Ten Years In The Sun (2015)

An assortment of obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions flicker on the verge of incoherence against the context of vast cosmic disaster in Rouzbeh Rashidi's boldest film to date. This sensory onslaught combines a homage to the subversive ...

Forbidden Symmetries (2014)

Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they've seen and heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate that an ...

History of Water (2013)

A young man films his family to better understand them and as a result is destroyed by them. ...

Out of Here (2013)

Ciaran is a passionate yet restless college dropout who has returned home to recession-struck Dublin after a year of travelling. ...

Bipedality (2010)

A relationship between a man and a woman discloses during the course of the film. ...

Only Human (2009)

A tale of people unfolds under the night sky. These doomed couples and lost individuals begin journeys and attempt to find resolution in their lives. Love is observed from a distance, sadness is in the air. With little sympathy for the loss and destruction ...

Shingle Beach (2008)