Florafilm Productions

A supercilious chess-player becomes obsessed with his white pawn as he sees her getting closer to becoming a queen. In his efforts to catch her, he enters into the game himself, with disastrous results.

A stop-motion animation featuring meticulously crafted paper cutouts. Loose representations of male and female figures dance around the frame in a dramatic play of gender studies and relationship highs and lows.

Bombs, rockets, a hammer and sickle, the USA flag and Laika the dog race around the moon in this powerful stop-motion animation depicting the Space Race during the Cold War. Moonshine belies Kerrigan’s political interests and demonstrates the refinement of her skill as an accomplished animator.

The highs and lows of navigating romantic ventures are joyfully explored through a three-part play of stop-motion cut-outs.

Meticulously crafted, paper cut-outs of coffins, headstones, eyes, candles, crosses, and psychedelic backgrounds dance across the screen. Sensory functions are gradually removed – an ear is broken by a hammer, a mouth is locked in a cage, a nose is put in a coffin, hands are pricked by a thorn, a heart is trapped inside a coffin – in an exploration of afterlife.

The Worms Are Having Fun depicts a flirtatious interaction between two men and a woman. A painter views her as his muse, while the other admires her from afar. As Kerrigan explains: ‘Two men are continually being haunted by one girl.’

Dream Maker explores the relationship between two young women in a tender play of furtive glances, sensual interactions and hesitations. It’s a striking piece, and one of the few known Irish amateur films by a woman that offers such an intimate and dream-like portrayal of female characters.