Mckenna the hitmans bodyguard plays the foolish land surveyor and algar the drummer and the keeper is his equally naive girlfriend. Vivarium director lorcan finnegan is aware of how creepy his movie seems now. Irish sciencefiction thriller gets prestigious screening at. The evening of 10 short films on one epic night takes place in the sugar club on the 31st of this month. Sep 17, 2016 because foxes was lorcan finnegans first cinematic effort, and as my first assumption of his talents surmised, without name captures all the psychological tension that finnegan once showcased.
Im working on another film with garrett called goliath, which is a dark fable set in the nottoodistant, dystopian future, finnegan says. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover lorcans connections and jobs at similar companies. Oct 18, 2016 a few years back, a marvelously atmospheric horror short called foxes played the festival circuit, showcasing a pair of burgeoning talents in irish director lorcan finnegan and writer garret shanley. Lorcan finnegans vivarium, a fever dream about a suburban hellscape, offers a terrifying portrait of a young couple slowly unraveling under the crushing weight of social isolation. Like jon krakauers into the wild, it is a sympathetic examination of what happens when literary ideas of freedom and purity take hold of a young mind and fling his body out into.
Vivarium director lorcan finnegan on his prescient movie. A vulpine twilight world beckons in lorcan finnegans foxes. View lorcan foxs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Ive always loved fables and parables, says lorcan finnegan. Garret shanleys followup to their awardwinning folkhorror opus without name and their acclaimed short foxes, and a uniquely eerie. Garret shanley made a short film called foxes, about a young couple. Taking a deeper dive down irish director lorcan finnegans filmography, i came across his much lauded short, more.
A young couple trapped in a remote estate houses and shrieking foxes. See photos of the night were delighted to be hosting the second creative shorts event as part of the icad meitheal series, designed to celebrate the creativity of icad folk. Vivarium is the worst nightmare of a middleclass couple. For example, lorcan finnegans recent release vivarium started with his first short film foxes which features some very similar themes. Insert copy here, which should vary depending on your region. In this film ireland podcast, paul farren talks to director lorcan finnegan and writer garret shanley about their film vivarium, which is available on digital from 27th march during their search for the perfect home, gemma imogen poots and tom jesse eisenberg find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinthlike suburban neighbourhood named yonder. Vivarium directors yonder explanation makes the film even. Jun 30, 2016 top 10 great foxes in childrens books. Stories that entertain but carry a message or warning. With marie ruane, tom vaughanlawlor, karen griffin. Read on for our exclusive chat with irish filmmaker lorcan finnegan on his second feature, vivarium. Books about foxes 101 books meet your next favorite book. Because foxes was lorcan finnegans first cinematic effort, and as my first assumption of his talents surmised, without name captures all the.
The film had its world premiere on 12 september 2016 at the toronto international film festival. Vivarium director lorcan finnegan is aware of how creepy. Even in the process of making both films, of me going around trying to find locations to shoot in, where i was going into the ghost estates of these abandoned housing developments. Finnegan has worked for production company zeppotron as a motion designer, editor and later as a director. This simple but magical world is populated by a cast of gruff but good hearted old men whose lives revolve around animals both for work and this is is a subtle, quiet book with a relatively. Imogen poots and jesse eisenberg star in vivarium, a bleak study of suburbia. The penetrating cold and damp of the morning mist on the hills and the warm, smoky camaraderie of the local pub are almost tangible in the running foxes. Irish sciencefiction thriller gets prestigious screening. Lorcan finnegan foxes directs this indiehorror, which won 8 awards at the brooklyn horror film festival and was nominated for an irish film and television award.
What reads like our current pandemic reality is actually the unsettling set up of irish director lorcan finnegans scifi thriller vivarium, starring imogen poots and jesse eisenberg as a couple lured by the promise of the ideal home in the picture perfect little boxes housing development of yonder. Vivarium director lorcan finnegan is aware of how creepy his movie seems now the story of the movie vivarium dates all the way back to 2011, when director lorcan finnegan and screenwriter garret shanley made a short film called foxes, about a young couple that gets trapped in an empty housing development. Film ireland podcasts garret shanley interview lorcan finnegan paul farren podcast vivarium. Yeah, we made foxes back in 2011, so a lot of the beginnings of this film came from that short film. Lorcan finnegan starring marie ruane, tom vaughanlawlor, karen griffin genres drama subtitles english cc. In the seventeenth century, it contributed to what historians have called the catholic myth. Foxes was based on a short story that garrett shanley wrote on his blog. Having begun his task alone, the location has unsettled eric, a situation not alleviated by the arrival of assistant and mistress. John oahagan and lorcan finnegan join sydney company. I read one of his books on sound design and agreed with neil that we should use natural sounds and location sound and play with them to create. May 15, 2019 ive always loved fables and parables, says lorcan finnegan. Lorcan fox teachertrainer european school linkedin.
Vivarium director lorcan finnegan on his prescient movie vulture. Sep 05, 2016 filmed on location in dublin and wicklow, director lorcan finnegan told rte entertainment that theres already a great audience and industry buzz around the film and revealed that some of the. Without name is a 2016 irish ecohorror film directed by lorcan finnegan, based on a script by garret shanley. If there was a unifying theme in the irish films at the tribeca film festival this year, which ran from april 21 29, it might be a kind of melancholy about the state of ireland, from the genteel wildness in lorcan finnegans short foxes to the cozy chaos in terry georges feature whole lotta sole.
Mar 27, 2020 read on for our exclusive chat with irish filmmaker lorcan finnegan on his second feature, vivarium. Unfortunately, we were unable to catch henry masons short all that way for. A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinthlike neighborhood of identical houses. Finnegan s latest short, foxes, premiered at sxsw and won an ifta for best short film, as well as screening at tribeca. Finnegans latest short, foxes, premiered at sxsw and won an ifta for best short film, as well as screening at tribeca. Former secret agent obrines third novel is based on a long revenge and one actual horrific episode 1944 and the ss takeovermassacre of an italian town as well as the truly appalling facts and figures of residual naziism. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. From there, the duo who previously teamed on the acclaimed short foxes and the awardwinning folkhorror feature without name plan to proceed with what sounds like their most ambitious project yet. Directed by lorcan finnegan foxes, without name, vivarium stars academy award nominee jesse eisenberg best actor, the social network, 2010 and imogen poots. Lorcan finnegan says bringing vivarium to critics week. Lionsgate delivered the thriller to digital on march 24, 2020, and now. After killing it as a sketch comedy editor and motionographer in london, lorcan returned to his motherland and began making short animated films, before turning to live action shorts and commercials. The vivarium bluray and dvd will be available for the suggested retail. In lorcan finnegans latest short film foxes, the irish filmmaker plays.
The story of the movie vivarium dates all the way back to 2011, when director lorcan finnegan and screenwriter garret shanley made a short film called foxes, about a young couple that gets trapped. With imogen poots, danielle ryan, molly mccann, jesse eisenberg. Mar 21, 2016 finnegan has worked for production company zeppotron as a motion designer, editor and later as a director. If there was a unifying theme in the irish films at the tribeca film festival this year, which ran from april 21 29, it might be a kind of melancholy about the state of ireland, from the genteel wildness in lorcan finnegan s short foxes to the cozy chaos in terry georges feature whole lotta sole. Vivarium is a 2019 science fiction thriller film directed by lorcan finnegan, from a story by. Adapted from a garret shanley short story with the same name and set in a ghost estate abandoned government housing projects in. I had originally put together a look book when we first. Gemma asks the boy who gave the book to him and he shows her by inflating his throat sacs and making alien sounds. Irish short films watch lorcan finnegans foxes rte. And through making foxes it opened some doors towards themes that we wanted to explore more fully with vivarium. Vivarium director lorcan finnegan is aware of how creepy his. That promise pays off in the duos feature debut, without name, which made its u. Director lorcan finnegans short film explores isolation and resentment through a fantasy lens.
The film resonates with echoes of finnegan and stanleys seminal short film, foxes, from 2012, revolving around a couple living in a remote and forgotten housing development and become drowning in obsession, madness, and malaise as shrieking foxes surround their isolated home. Vivarium arrives on digital 327 and on bluray and dvd 512. Fiction and nonfiction books about foxes animal fiction, animal fantasy, xenofiction, natural history, nature, etc. Videos that are viualy pleasing, arty or just plain mad. Lorcan finnegans freerange filmmaking journey little black book. Without name marks the directors feature film directorial debut and stars alan mckenna as a land surveyor who is sent to a mysterious forest harboring a strange secret. Lorcan finnegans bizarre horrorsatire skews the typical suburban conformity that awaits most. Finnegan has certainly written a surfing book for surfers, but on a more fundamental level, barbarian days offers a cleareyed vision of american boyhood. A spiritual successor to his foreboding short foxes, finnegan returns to dn for an extensive discussion about creating the disturbing.
Lorcan finnegan foxes tells the tale of a young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses. Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. He learns from the tv and from his little educational book, just like kids. Zeppotron, a part of endemol, was cofounded by charlie brooker, of black mirror fame. Irish sciencefiction thriller gets prestigious screening at cannes lorcan finnegans vivarium, starring jesse eisenberg and imogen poots, will be shown during cannes 2019 international critics. Johnny cullen timmy gets an inappropriate present from his father. Read on for our exclusive chat with irish filmmaker lorcan finnegan on his. At the beginning of vivarium, there is foxes, a short film that i shot in 2011, in a phantom domain les ghost estate. Foxes book of martyrs was very widely read and had a deep influence on english thinking for centuries. Director lorcan finnegans debut feature sees land surveyor eric alan mckenna working in a remote woodland area. Theres even illustrations in the book that gemma reads that show.
Two caterpillars, wildy in love, embark on a journey of change but will they still feel the same when they emerge from their chrysalises. Shop childrens nonfiction animals foxes books at alibris. Lorcan finnegans bizarre horrorsatire skews the typical suburban conformity that awaits most middleclass families. Foxes is thoughtprovoking, attentiongrabbing, and all around very unsettling. A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world. Created as a statement about how we live our lives today and a way of portraying the idea of a clash between humans and nature, lorcan finnegans brother of fear of flyings conor foxes is a dark and moody tale of isolation and unusual happenings. The short film is shot in a semiapocalyptic suburban wasteland that fills you with dread with every desolate camera shot. Lorcan finnegan says bringing vivarium to critics week is. Lorcan finnegan is the talented director behind such shortform discombobulating delights as curiosity 2006, changes 2007 and foxes 2012.
After killing it as a sketch comedy editor and motionographer in london, lorcan returned to his motherland and began making short animated films, before turning to. Starring imogen poots, jesse eisenberg, jonathan aris, senan jennings, and eanna hardwicke. When tim curry gets his handser, claws on the hamburglar i hope this was a still from curry during his lunch break. I have a particular love for my short film foxes which kicked off a lot of bigger things for. I grew up on faery stories, ghost stories and reading greek and roman.
This is a picture book youll want to rip apart and frame all around. Top 10 great foxes in childrens books childrens books. Director lorcan finnegan returns to dn for an extensive discussion about creating the disturbing unreality of his feature scifi thriller vivarium. Debuting today on vod from saban films, vivarium stars imogen poots and jesse eisenberg as gemma and tom, a young couple seeking a new home who are lured to a planned community called yonder.
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