Visto desde el Zaguán

Concentrating on things seen from our doorway that occur in the city or elsewhere and that mostly go unnoticed

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Seaside Seafront

Seaside Seafront

By Jacqueline Heeley

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Notes for a film

Notes for a film

2022   20'29"   B&W/Colour

She wonders if she'll get word.

Mythical Common Lands curated by Priyanka Das (ABC No Rio, New York City, 2023)




The Lie of the Land

The Lie of the Land

2022   10'08"   B&W/Colour

At first we thought they were misinformed,
that they had gotten the wrong end of the stick
and would soon realise that they had made a mistake
but as time passed by it was us who realized something else,
something far more sinister was happening.

Digital Gate International Film Festival/Domum Festival (Algeria, 2023)
Pugnant Film Series (Athens, Greece. 2022) (World Premiere)




The Long Way Round

The Long Way Round

2019   13'44"   B&W

The intangibility of elsewhere.

Esto Es Para Esto Festival, Monterrey City, Mexico, 2022
Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Tokyo, Kyoto and Fukuoka, 2021
KinoKlub Split, Croatia, 2021
International Video Art Festival Now&After 2021, Moscow
Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London, 2021
'Displacements' The MExIndex 2020 Screening, Ireland
Online International Video Art Festival Now&After 2020, Moscow. (Honorary Jury Mention)
The Other Side, Anonymous Waves White Page Gallery
Punk Cinema Festival, Amsterdam




dead end

dead end

2019   09'11"   B&W/Colour

Given the circumstances, it is highly unlikely that any headway will be made.

VideoAktion #3, Berlin, 2022
Esto Es Para Esto Festival, Monterrey City, Mexico, 2022
Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Tokyo, Kyoto and Fukuoka, 2021
Muestra Internacional La Mirada Inquieta, 2021, Cuba
KinoKlub Split, Croatia, 2021
Experiments in Cinema v16.1, 2021, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Punk Cinema Festival, Amsterdam
Proyector 2020, Madrid, Spain
Simultan Festival 2019, Timisora, Romania
"Presents for Jonas", Microscope Gallery, New York, April 2019






Coastline

Coastline

2018   40'45"   Colour

Three places.
Three stories.






In your film

Un ou plus d'un

2018   14'23"   Colour

If he had explained it properly, would it have turned out otherwise?






In your film

A Fork in the Road

2017   38'16"   Black and White/Colour

A man struggles to find his bearings in unfamiliar surroundings.

Selected for the 2019 Hazel Eye Film Festival



In your film

Jeanne et Mathilde

2016   06'10"   Black and White

Two girls who only know of one another through hearsay finally meet.

aDifferent Festival 2017, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA



In your film

In your film

2015   04'49"   Black and White / Colour

A place. A memory not fully erased.

Sky Road Film Festival 2015, Clifden
Culture Night 2015, Glór, Ennis
Culture Night 2015, Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Visionara 22 (2015. Italia)



A wound we won't remember

A wound we won't remember

2014   05'21"   Black and White

An event, of which he knows nothing, and yet might be implicated in, has cast a shadow over their relationship.

International Film Poetry Festival (Athens, 2014)
Visionara 22 (2015. Italia)



Nearly all your unknown poems

Nearly all your unknown poems

2013   06'59"   Black and White

He promised her he would carry out her wishes once she was gone.

6th Cairo Video Festival (2014)



A shift in the wind

A shift in the wind

2012   10'36"   Black and White

When it begins it has already ended. And so, the story tries to disentangle itself from the hold this ending has over it.

Published in the Journal of Short Film #29



A shift in the wind

Playground

2011   07'49"   Black and White

Children playing. Children running from war.
Children thinking about other children undergoing the ravages of war in faraway places.
Adults thinking about past wars. Adults thinking about present wars.
Adults eyeing up the next playground. Children just hoping that it will be all over soon.
Children longing to run towards their own playground.



A shift in the wind

Summer cold

2010   17'02"   Black and White

A short story by Visto desde el Zaguán,
written in Paris in 1992, soundtrack created in Dublin in 1996,
filmed and edited in Barcelona in 2010.



Elle

Elle

2009   03'59"   Colour

Elle's real story, a quiet morning in August 2008 in Barcelona.

DVD published by Ob'Art (Barcelona)



Elle

Chief Cook and Bottle-Washer
(a career in amateur film-making)

2009   27'00"   Colour

Documentary about Dominic Coffey,
an Irish amateur film-maker, who enjoyed a 20-year career in Super 8 film-making.



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