Seamus Harahan
Seamus HARAHAN (1968, UK) graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in Belfast. He works primarily with video and sound, and always works intuitively. His films take the form of experimental documentaries. Harahan lives and works in Belfast.
Filmography
(selection, all short) Stay Here a While (2008), John B. Keane Talks About Drink (2010), Fitter Happier I (2010), Fitter Happier II (2010), Brendan's Test (2010), Blue Eyes (2010), Archipelago (2010), The Fox Chase (2011), Murder Inc (2011), Auftakt (2011), Cold Open (2012), Your Silent Face (fucking finland series) (2014)
Seamus Harahan at IFFR
Bernadette
A masterful 'experimental' documentary and disarmingly alluring representation of Bernadette Devlin, one of the key figures in Northern Ireland’s republican and civil rights movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
38'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2009
Cold Open
Drenched in creeping damp and malaise, the visual consequence of a powerfully 'absent-minded gaze in response to the world'.
10'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2013
Your Silent Face (fucking finland series)
A melancholic slab of perfect pop and intuitive documentary video, shot on the docks of Rostock as a Baltic ferry leaves port for Hanko, Finland.
6'
Ireland
IFFR 2015