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YOU'RE ONLY WHAT I SEE SOMETIMES

 

fiction, 16mm, 9mins, 2008

written and directed by Donal Foreman

starring Hannah McDonnell and Elijah Egan

produced by Ruairi McKenna

director of photography Piers McGrail

A girl travels home the morning after a one night stand, reflecting on her experience. A sensual and subjective film about the traces an intimate encounter leaves in our memory.

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"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 impression ism 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. "

---Paul Lynch, "Dún Laoghaire students show what they are made of", The Sunday Tribune, June 15 2008.

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SCREENINGS:

  • Student Cinematheque, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, August 31st 2009
  • VisionFest 09, Directors Guild of America Theatre, Los Angeles, August 20th 2009
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