Film Programme
Deep End Dance
fiction
Ireland, 2010, 6'15''
Director: Conor Horgan
Producer: Martha O'Neill (Wildfire Films)
Director of photography: Richard Kendrick
Writer: David Bolger
Composer: Conor Linehan, Suzanne Brennan
Editor: Roisin O'Donnell
Synopsis: A fully dressed man is pushed into a swimming pool by his mother. He brushes himself off and starts dancing underwater, always aware that she's watching. After a while she joins him, and they play out the story of their relationship through the underwater dance.
Director: Conor Horgan
Conor Horgan began his career as a photographer, then directed over 70 TV commercials and pop videos before moving on to write and direct drama and documentary films. Recent directing projects include “The Beholder”, a documentary film about portraiture, his first feature film “One Hundred Mornings”, which has won a number of awards, including Special Jury Honorable Mention, Slamdance Film Festival 2010 and Deep End Dance, a short film in which choreographer David Bolger performs an underwater duet with his 76-year-old mother Madge.
He is currently developing several drama projects, shooting “Making A Show of Myself”, a documentary about Dublin drag icon Panti and making his debut as a stage director with “All This and a Hill of Beans” at the Dublin Fringe Festival.