The No Show
Jeffrey Mulqueen by Shane Serrano
🎥 The No Show
A new film created by Catherine O’Halloran & Grace Dyas in collaboration with Limerick City Build
📽️ Shot by @shane_serrano for @crude.ie .
🎬 Writen, Directed & Produced by Catherine O’Halloran & Grace Dyas.
The No Show is a film inspired by working-class men known not to turn up.
It’s an attempt to enter the experience of the absence he creates and explore his internal world.
Who didn’t show up for him?
To understand him, we need to meet his father.
To understand his Da, we need to know his grandfather.
Like Russian dolls, we complicate the narrative around men like him.
Over two years, Catherine O’Halloran and Grace Dyas worked with young men in Limerick City Build to devise a trauma-informed contemporary art film.
It tells the origin story of trauma experienced by working-class families, reaching back six generations to the Famine.
The film presents visceral flickers of hunger, loss, abuse, banality, and reality. Reaching into the taboos and Shadows of inter-generational trauma.
It celebrates our absences, emptiness, and blank spaces, bringing us into the present and offering a window for reflection in order to show up for ourselves.
đź’ˇ This project was funded by the @artscouncilireland Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts.
Presented by @firstfortnight in partnership with Limerick City Build - Regen Ltd Art By @gracedyas & @the_unconventionaltherapist
