I'm proud to announce that the Irish Film Institute has released my 2023 feature Solitaire on their VOD platforms.
Viewers in Ireland can watch it on IFI@home at https://www.ifihome.ie/film/solitaire/
International audiences can catch it on IFI International at https://www.ifiinternational.ie/film/solitaire/
Solitaire is an unsettling experimental ghost story that explores family, home, identity and gender as unfixed parasitic entities that propagate themselves through bodies and buildings. Taking a wordless, visually poetic approach to its story, it is at once deeply mysterious and emotionally accessible in its imagining of these universal themes. A brother returns to his family home after a long absence to find his sister dead. As their identities merge, they find it impossible to re-enter their house, which seems possessed by an entity that is at once maternal and childlike. But darker energies are lurking in the background…
Solitaire was written, filmed, directed and edited by me. The sound is created by Karen Power. The film stars Natasha Bourke and Aisling O Connell. It is an Experimental Film Society production funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.