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F I S H

Moira Brady Averill


Synopsis

'Made by writer and comedian Moira Brady Averill, F I S H sees the filmmaker barefoot, painted in blue and wearing the oversized head of a cardboard fish. Marked by stigma and sorrow, the figure she embodies is seen roaming city streets, endeavouring to carry out everyday tasks - order a coffee, eat an ice-cream, play basketball - but in every instance becoming an object of ridicule, isolated and excluded for reasons beyond our understanding. A portrait of solitude and despair as much as it is of rage and defiance that acts as a metaphor for social alienation, this parody of the suffering human foibles can give rise to was conceived of and shot in one day on grainy video, heightened by a score of mellifluous strings crashing with death metal and delivered with black humour amid wilfully murky pathos.'

(Text by Alice Butler, Nov 28th 2016)


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Title

F I S H

Year

2010

Form

Short

Key phrases

portrait, dark comedy, social isolation, stigmatization, melancholy, insubordination

Language

English (eng) (spoken)

Duration

00:04:00

Original formats

to be confirmed

Aspect ratio

to be confirmed

Colour

Mixture

Sound

Yes

Supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service, the Arts Council of Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland.
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