LATEST NEWS...

19/5/09: I'm off to Madrid next week for the Márgenes Festival, where my old short Film by the Sea will be featuring in the Irish experimental film programme, alongside works by Maximilian le Cain, Dónal Ó Céilleachair, Joe Comerford, and Vivienne Dick. I also shot a new film last week. More on that soon...

16/4/09: My short documentary Under will be featuring on the Cork Art Trail next week, as part of a group of video works installed in pubs across the city from Thursday 23rd to Saturday 25th April, 6pm to 8pm every evening. For more info, click here.

3/4/09: The "Films Politically" series wrapped up last Tuesday at Seomra Spraoi. Tomorrow, I'm off to Tipperary for the Nenagh Film Week, where I'll be presenting an Experimental Film Club screening that I've programmed, which will feature 16mm prints of films by Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Nino Pezzella and Stan Brakhage.

24/3/09: The Fresh Film Festival kicks off today. I'll be heading down tomorrow for Ireland's Young Filmmaker of the Year awards and the "Fresh Forum", where I'll be presenting You're Only What I See Sometimes. This is the first year that I've been a features programmer for the festival, and also the first year the festival has had a distinguished international guest: M Dot Strange is in Limerick all week with his feature, We Are The Strange.

25/2/09: I've written a study guide for schools on Caroline Suh's recent documentary, Frontrunners, for the upcoming Fresh Film Festival (24th to 28th March). You can read it online in the festival's programme (page 12).

14/2/09: Two new projects starting up this week: The first in my series of personal online shorts, Declarations, goes up today—and next Tuesday, February 17th, is the first in a new series of Experimental Film Club screenings I'm programming in Seomra Spraoi, entitled "Films Politically". In other news: if you're in Dublin at the moment, don't miss the Chantal Akerman retrospective.

2/12/08: Thanks to the generous assistance of Culture Ireland, I'll be travelling to Alaska next week for the screenings of my film at the Anchorage International Film Festival. My short will be playing on December 7th and December 13th as part of their Super Shorts programme.

1/11/08: You're Only What I See Sometimes will be playing in the Kerry Film Festival on Wednesday, November 5th, as part of a programme of contemporary Irish experimental cinema.

26/10/08: I've written an article with 10 Tips for Young Filmmakers that's just been published in the Fresh Film Festival's magazine.

19/10/08: The second edition of Experimental Conversations is online, and features my review of the Darklight Festival.

24/9/08: I've programmed this month's Experimental Film Club and written an essay to go with it. The event takes place Sunday 28th September at 4pm, upstairs in the Ha'penny Bridge Inn in Dublin. If you can, come!

17/9/08: Currently in Edinburgh on the last leg of the ENGAGE programme. But the big news is my latest film, You're Only What I See Sometimes, will be screening several times in Buenos Aires, Argentinia, next week, as part of an event curated by A Visual Munch. Screenings will take place on the 14th and 17th of September in the Expotrastiendas, and on the 19th and 22nd of September in the Palacio de las Artes.

17/8/08: Turns out I will, unexpectedly, be flying out to LA for the screening of my film this Wednesday...

6/8/08: My short film Removal will be screening in Los Angeles again, this time as part of Filmmaker's Alliance annual VisionFest, which takes place at the Director's Guild of America on August 20th.

18/7/08: I'll be chairing a panel discussion tomorrow in Lights Out! -- the "National Film Festival for Young People" taking place in the IFI. The panel will feature former winners of the Fresh Film Festival, and will accompanied by screenings of our work, including my latest film, You're Only What I See Sometimes.

22/6/08: A revised version of my article on last year's Lucca Film Festival is featured in the inaugural issue of Ireland's new online film magazine, Experimental Conversations. Also, for reasons I don't quite understand, there's a public art installation happening in my back garden tomorrow, Monday 23rd June. Click here for more info on the project, and send me an email if you'd like to come along.

16/6/08: In an article on the NFS grad showcase in yesterday's Sunday Tribune, Paul Lynch writes...

"The most ambitious short was written and directed by Donal Foreman. You're Only What I See Sometimes is a film about a one-night stand very much inspired by the fleeting impression­ism of love and memory in the work of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai. This was ambitious, confident stuff, told with visual aplomb. Foreman's film contained the cinematic moment of the night: a burst of spontaneous bedroom dancing from Hannah McDonnell that reminded me of Godard's freewheeling cinema. Anna Karina couldn't have done better herself. "

2/6/08: My short film, You're Only What I See Sometimes, will be part of the National Film School graduate showcase screening in the new Light House Cinema on Monday 9th June at 6.30pm. For more info, or if you are a journalist or blogger and would like to write about the event, please email nfsgradshowcase@gmail.com.

15/5/08: I’ve co-programmed, with Esperanza Collado, the next Experimental Film Club screening happening this Sunday at 4pm in the Ha’penny Bridge Inn in Dublin. You can read my introduction to the programme here.

6/4/08: The grad film is wrapped. Next month will be editing that film, my still-unfinished fiction short from last year, Ruairi McKenna's short Afternoon, and John Scott's dance show Next to Skin---not to mention attending the first ENGAGE workshops which are happening next week here in Dublin. In the meantime, I've uploaded my graduate thesis on Robert Kramer and Jean-Luc Godard, and my report from the Lucca Film Festival, which will be published in Filmmakers Alliance Magazine later this year.

28/3/08: Some good news. I've been accepted to the ENGAGE programme with my feature film project, Back Here, and will be travelling to Scotland and Estonia later in the year as part of the programme--and my college graduate film, You're Only What I See Sometimes, goes into production tomorrow. It's also been a good week for experimental film in Dublin: Fergus Daly's Experimental Conversations screened in Trinity College yesterday, and this Sunday sees Dublin's first experimental film club take place in the Ha'penny Inn.

22/3/08: Irish Modern Dance Theatre have uploaded some of the promos I've made for them on YouTube.

16/3/08: My article on Fergus Daly's Experimental Conversations is now online as part of Tony Tracy's annual Irish film review for Estudios Irlandeses. (I am, for some reason, the only contributor who isn't an acdemic college lecturer...)

3/3/08: Between finishing my thesis, preparing my graduate film and attending the Berlin and Dublin film festivals, it's been a very busy few months. More on all of that to come, but for now, a quick note to say I'm going to be on The Arts Show on RTÉ Radio 1 tonight at 8pm discussing the Fresh Film Festival.

8/12/07: Finally getting around to uploading more of my films. So far Removal, December 28th, Film by the Sea, Our Friend Peter and Under are all available to watch in full, and you can watch scenes from My Friend's House and Cuba, Christmas 2001.

4/12/07: Clips from My Friend's House and How to Make a Fresh Film were screened on "WE-TV" on RTÉ2 on December 1st, along with (unfortunately) an interview with me, promoting the Fresh Film Festival. Earlier, on November 22nd, I was also speaking at a Fresh showcase in the IFI, where my old award-winner The Unmentionable was screening along with other Fresh classics. And that same day, my film Rehearsing Modern Dance, screened in "an eclectic evening of performance & films, slides, music, dance..." curated by Vivienne Dick as part of the Tulca arts festival:

8/11/07: Two programmes of my films are being screened by the Cork Film Centre as part of a special weekend of "alternative Irish cinema", which pairs my work with that of great Irish experimental filmmaker Vivienne Dick. The event takes place on the weekend of November 17th in the Firkin Crane in Cork: a programme of my experimental and drama work will screen on the Saturday at 4.30pm, and a programme of my documentary films will screen on the Sunday at 2.30pm. For full details, click here.

7/10/07: An abridged version of the interview I did with American filmmaker Caveh Zahedi at this year's Galway Film Fleadh is published in the latest issue of Film Ireland. You can read the unabridged version here.

19/9/07: Just found out Removal and My Friend's House both screened in the Slow Film Festival in Eger, Hungary back in July. Removal will be playing in LA next Monday, September 24th, at 7.30 in the Echo Park Film Centre as part of a Filmmakers Alliance Showcase---the same day I fly to Italy for the Lucca Film Festival, where both Removal and Under will be screening on October 4th.

14/8/07: I've been commissioned to film Sara Rudner's four-hour dance show, This Dancing Life, which Irish Modern Dance Theatre are putting on in SS Michael and John's Church this Friday and Sunday. The show is amazing - try to check it out.

30/7/07: My article on Caveh Zahedi and Tom Noonan, "Independent Influences" was published in the spring edition of Filmmakers Alliance Magazine. You can download the issue here.

1/7/07: Thanks to Waise Azimi in the Phillipines for including four of my films---wsh, Film by the Sea, When I Was 18 and Under---in his experimental film showcase "A Midsummer's Night of Dreams" at the Mag:net Cafe Katipunan in Manilla on June 27th.

22/5/07: Two new shorts, one fiction (Small Relationship) and one documentary (NYP2, about a Dublin inner city youth project) are now in post-production. Under is currently online in the Con-Can Festival. And on Saturday I'm off to Berlin for three weeks, followed by a week in London to catch the Cassavetes retrospective... See you there?

3/5/07: Lots going on lately. That long-delayed Karnival magazine featuring "The State of the Art" has finally hit the streets of Cork, and my experimental short When I Was 18 will be playing in a tie-in screening at the Kino in Cork on May 11th. Film by the Sea, wsh and Three Ideas About the City played in a Filmmakers Alliance showcase in Los Angeles on April 30th. Under has been accepted into the online Con-Can Festival and it will be streamed on their website from May 15th. And finally, my new short film goes into production today....

4/3/07: I've just had the opportunity to review the past year of Irish film for Cahiers du Cinema's annual Atlas edition, which will be widely distributed at the Cannes Film Festival in May. You can read my article here.

23/2/07: The Berlinale is over. All seven articles written for the Talent Campus can be read in the writing section of this website, or at talentpress.org and FIPRESCI.org, along with the work of seven other film critics from around the world.

15/1/07: I've been accepted to the Berlinale Talent Campus taking place in conjunction with the International Berlin Film Festival this February.