GHOSTLY SHORTS: IRISH GHOST FILMS ON THE BEYOND

Ghost stories and tales of otherworldly encounters are commonplace in Irish folk history. This collection of short work by upcoming filmmakers captures the fascination with paranormal powers through various genres, styles, and themes. Ranging from spooky horror films to poetic reflections on life and loss, these shorts explore the many shapes of the things that haunt us.

In Farmers!? (Freddie Leyden), the death of a farmer plunges his community into a surreal state of grief. Popper (Bonnie Sanderson) is a 1950s-set fever dream in which a pregnant housewife is subjected to an experimental superdrug. The afterlife has never sounded so good as in Eldritch Karaoke (Joe Luftus), an animated marvel in which a woman descends into a show tune world of spirits. An excommunicated priest tries to grapple with having returned from the dead In Wake of John Doyle (Niall McCloskey and Thomas Bennett). Dragon’s Teeth (Lennart Soberon) revisits the Northern Irish conflict by following a lingering spirit through an abandoned military fort. Lastly, The Stone Claims (Mervyn Marshall) locks us in a room with a lone storyteller and her memories of an eerie occurrence.