Archive: Year 2008
International Dox
Seaview
Directors
Nicky Gogan &
Paul Rowley
Producers
Maya Derrington
Nicky Gogan
Paul Rowley
Cinematographer
Paul Rowley
Editors
Nicky Gogan
Paul Rowley
Contact
Still Films.
69 Dame Street. Dublin 2. Ireland.
Tel: +353.87.9966777
[email protected]
82 min
Color
North of Dublin, on the beautiful Irish seaside, lies a bizarre-looking collection of rusting fairground rides and grey cement buildings with brightly painted doors. The compound, called Mosney, opened in 1948 as a summer holiday camp, a place where Irish families would escape the daily grind for a week in order to relax, dance, eat fish ‘n’ chips and enjoy the salty fresh air. A visit to Mosney today presents a radically different picture, but still a picture of escape. This former holiday camp is now a camp of another kind, a holding centre for asylum seekers from all corners of the globe. Here the residents wait years for the results of their asylum claims.
Nicky Gogan, a 1993 graduate of the National College of Art and Design has a great interest in new media and the artistic potential of technology. Nicky was one of the first active advocates of digital film-making in Ireland. She set up the Darklight Film Festival in 1999. Nicky is co-founder of Sink Digital Media, a Dublin based new media Production Company where she produced many web based video and art projects over the years.
Paul Rowley is a visual artist and filmmaker. He recently won the Irish American Arts Awards, in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. His projects have received numerous awards from the Irish Arts Council since 1997, and he has made over 25 shorts films and video installations over the last ten years. He is currently in production on a permanent public art installation for the international terminal at Los Angeles airport, to be opened in 2009.
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