Michael Barwise

Making Dust is an essay film, a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin. Understanding this moment as a 'rupture', the film maps an essay by architectural historian Ellen Rowley on to documentation of the building's dismantling. Featuring oral interviews recorded at the site of the demolition and in a nearby hairdressers, the film invites viewers to pause and reflect on this ending alongside the community of the building. The film is informed by Ultimology, and invites its audience to think about the life cycles of buildings and materials, how we mourn, what is sacred, how we gather, what we value and issues of sustainability in architecture.

When Peter agrees to take part in a clandestine plot of industrial sabotage, he is forced to confront himself and the roles he plays in different relationships.

In 1999, Irish national broadcaster RTÉ announced that its weather forecasters would be replaced by attractive young television presenters. But the people of Ireland had something to say about that.

Never Mind Walnut Street is Polish artist Marta Dyczkowka’s homage to her adopted city of Belfast. Set to the loud and wild soundtrack of Belfast’s own Runnin' Riot, we meet lead singer Colin McQuillan in his kitchen turned make shift bar, where he and Marta become fast friends. After helping her make the move to Belfast, Marta experience the full extent of punk life in Belfast and Walnut Street becomes the home away from home that she had been searching for. Never Mind Walnut Street pays tribute to the punks and city that once shaped Marta’s life, with the very fabric of her landscape changing around her, mirroring her own emotional journey of loss and change.

Peter's relationship with girlfriend Chloe is under threat from Peter's plans with eco-activist Adam. Peter knows committing to one will bring an end to the other.

Taking a pub crawl through 1990s Derry (N. Ireland) under the ever watchful eye of the British Army, That sanity be kept explores being young and getting drunk during a ceasefire.