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Hole in the Head – Dean Kavanaugh (Wicklow, Ireland)
Part-time projectionist and amateur filmmaker, John Kline Jnr, is mute and suffers from missing time. He hires local actors to play his parents in a series of recreated home movies in order to investigate their unsolved disappearance 25 years earlier. Hole in the Head is an independent feature film in which the protagonist re-stages his family’s home movies in order to recall a traumatic event. Melding new with old technologies and a film-within-a-film structure, this feature film proposes a hauntological discourse on autofiction, trauma and private ritual. 2023; 90 min.
- Year2022
- Runtime93 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryIreland
- DirectorDean Kavanagh
- ScreenwriterDean Kavanagh
- ProducerAnja Mahler
- CastJohn Curran, James Devereaux, Lynette Callaghan, John Allen
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Hole in the Head – Dean Kavanaugh (Wicklow, Ireland)
Part-time projectionist and amateur filmmaker, John Kline Jnr, is mute and suffers from missing time. He hires local actors to play his parents in a series of recreated home movies in order to investigate their unsolved disappearance 25 years earlier. Hole in the Head is an independent feature film in which the protagonist re-stages his family’s home movies in order to recall a traumatic event. Melding new with old technologies and a film-within-a-film structure, this feature film proposes a hauntological discourse on autofiction, trauma and private ritual. 2023; 90 min.
- Year2022
- Runtime93 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryIreland
- DirectorDean Kavanagh
- ScreenwriterDean Kavanagh
- ProducerAnja Mahler
- CastJohn Curran, James Devereaux, Lynette Callaghan, John Allen