Eóin Heaney
Directing
Biography
Eóin Heaney is an award winning artist filmmaker living and working in Dublin, Ireland. He studied film production in Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin and his previous work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Screen Ireland, CCI Paris, France and Germany’s FFF Bayern and the Berlinale Film Festival. His films use formal cinematic grammar, time and repetition to question our fragile relationships with identity, representation and lived reality. Heaney's most recent work includes the multi-award winning experimental film Spirit Level (an adaptation of Mycenae Lookout by poet Seamus Heaney), hybrid documentary Parish, and M/S a film exploring illness and care that draws on his seventeen years experience as primary carer for his mother.
Known For
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.
Spirit Level
Parish is an hybrid documentary that examines the representation of community identity. The film follows a communal choreography; a cinematic moveable feast where a diverse group of people add colour, nuance and shape to their community identity through the vivid, visceral nature of memory and its connection to dramatic experience. Shot on 16mm film in the Dublin suburb where the director grew up and inspired by the ritual of Beating The Bounds, Parish is a film work that utilizes documentary, fiction, biography, myth, and memoir.