Dean Kavanagh

The great @DonaldClarke63 has written a brilliant feature on me and my new film, Hole in the Head! Pick up your copy of the @IrishTimes today! ⚡️📰 🚨✨ Spread the word!

Watch Hole in the Head at home! This Project funded film by artist @deankavanagh_ is available now on IFI@Home. Hole in the Head explores questions of memory and the increasing role of technology in the mediation of experience @IFI_Dub ifihome.ie/film/hole-in-t…

A mute filmmaker hires actors to play his parents in a series of recreated home movies to investigate their unsolved disappearance. HOLE IN THE HEAD is now available to stream on IFI@Home and IFI International. 🇮🇪 ifihome.ie/film/hole-in-t… 🌍 ifiinternational.ie/film/hole-in-t…

@redroomrantings Merci Justine!

Beautiful tribute to the late great artist Joseph Bernard by @deankavanagh_ for Ultra Dogme ultradogme.com/2025/02/28/jos…

"Like the cinema of Stan Brakhage, Paul Sharits, and Jonas Mekas—all of whom he knew and deeply admired—Joe’s art offers a distinct way of seeing the world." Dean Kavanagh (@deankavanagh_) on his friend and fellow filmmaker, the late Joseph Bernard ultradogme.com/2025/02/28/jos…

Screening today!

I will be interviewing Tsai Ming-liang on stage tomorrow. That event is sold out, however there is a free screening of GOODBYE, DRAGON INN afterwards. Over the next three weeks, we will screen all of his films again, all of them for free. qagoma.qld.gov.au/cinema/program…

"What's happiness? All you wanderers of the earth, above, and below, who did you love?" SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY screens tomorrow followed by a conversation with @TrishMcAdam and Marina Carr hosted by @deankavanagh_ Don't miss out! 🎟👉 ifi.ie/film/irish-foc…

It’s one year on since the Dublin Riots. I still remember how so many carried themselves that night and still fear that they’re still among us. Even the week after when some crotchety loser start hassling my partner and daughter “are ye fooken ukranzians?”. That night, I had to leave my daughter aline at home. The things I saw still make me sick. Some loser on Patrick Street trying to creep up on a Spanish speaking couple. Of course as soon as I shouted at him the coward sped off at speed. Bigots are not good when the numbers are even fractionally against them. Then there’s certain “media” outlets that did their best to trigger it. They’ve never had to account for their role in it. On the plus side, it showed up the ugliness that permeates the city and the beauty that’s in it too. The way bystanders dealt with the attacker in Parnell Square is the Dublin I know. Many of the political parties have Dublin plans in their manifestos which is positive but what we’re really missing is an analysis of who was involved and how they got their in their lives. How do we get those lost to that type of thinking back into normality? A question for every country but in a time when we have this section collaborating with loyalist terrorists and other miscreants and with Americans mainstreaming bigotry and irrationality, we need to mover faster on it.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION WINNERS! BEST FILM - The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire Directed by @madeleine_sees

Cackled my way through this profane, off-the-cuff, eclectically erudite conversation with the inimitable Radu Jude, here pictured looking uncharacteristically sedate @BelfastFilmFes1

My book on Arthur Lipsett is now listed for release in the spring. Excited to tour with these wonderful films and introduce audiences to new ways of understanding Arthur Lipsett.

Dedications in Monteiro's films

My interview with Katherine Waugh & Fergus Daly is now online over at @SensesofCinema We talked about their film I See a Darkness, how animal life and perception is interpreted by modernity and capitalism through art, and more. Proud of this piece. sensesofcinema.com/2024/film-and-…

@strohltopia The United States of America (1975) by James Benning/Bette Gordon

Got anything else for this list of existential driving movies? Link below.

Look at my gorgeous @belfastfilmfes1 jury! Can't wait to inflict my obnoxious taste and even more obnoxious company on @deankavanagh_, @DorotaMischka and of course the inimitable Radu Jude (with whom I'll be hosting an In Conversation event). belfastfilmfestival.org/radu-jude-to-l…

The hard truth is you’ll have to wait ‘til early 2025 to hear the 3rd (and final?) installment of The Mike Leigh/Back To One Special Episode Trilogy. Till then, revisit the first 2 episodes @FilmmakerMag Part 1 (2019) filmmakermagazine.com/107384-back-to… Part 2 (2022) filmmakermagazine.com/114793-back-to…

I don't know what year it was, probably two or three years ago, we started a TOP 100 FILMS FOR HALLOWEEN list. But we only got to 88 titles. If anyone can help me out with the final 12, I'd be grateful.... mubi.com/en/lists/100-f…

@distractedfilm Same, time to rewatch

@deankavanagh_ Amazing! Don't know most of these - Society is a favourite though!