Florafilm Productions

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.

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.

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.

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

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.’

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.

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.