Dean Kavanagh Movies

‘My first movie’.

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...

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

Stertched images along stretched time.

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

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

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

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

Earth. Wind. Fire. Water. Sacrifice. In Animal Kingdom a ritual carves a dimension that melds character, object, landscape and the very tactile...

A séance of old and new light.

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...

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...

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

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

Onlookers at the canal.

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

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.

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