Cian is a multidisciplinary artist living in Wexford. As hearing-impaired, they use their disability to create work that is both emotive and informative. Cian's work is centered in the realm of audiovisual expression. They create ephemeral soundscapes by processing collected field recordings through analog and digital audio effects, to create a sound palette that mimics that of their personal experience with wearing hearing aids. Cian uses this soundscape as inspiration to create emotionally charged visuals that represent their inner psyche. Cian is influenced and inspired by São Paulo-based composer and producer Rodrigo Coelho and London-based director Duncan Loudon.
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The concept for this piece revolves around post covid society specifically ‘isolation and reintegration’. Many of us amidst the backdrop of the nationwide return to normality are still suffering from the collective trauma, of being inside, locked off from the rest of the world, and then suddenly resurfacing to a world forever changed by the cataclysmic pandemic. I intended to make a short experimental piece that acts as a physical manifestation of this feeling using the combined efforts of both audio and visuals.
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The concept for this visual essay began during the first pandemic
lockdown. I had been documenting my own feeling during these unprecedented times by journaling. Using these journal entries as inspiration I decided to shoot footage within my five-kilometer zone and self-produce a piece of
music. This audio-visual essay intended to illuminate the
changing mental landscape of my mind
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The concept for this audio-visual piece began with dreams. Specifically the dreams I had of home while living abroad. These sleepy visions would often leave me with a ghostly image. Something reminiscent of a vague memory that floats in space but canʼt be solidly grasped.
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Z i g o t ;
The concept for ʻAngel Zigotʼ was a simple one; I completely lost hearing in both ears for two months last January and wanted to replicate the feelings I had when it began to return.
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My Mum is a filmmaker and throughout her career and personal life, she has amassed a huge amount of footage on mini DV tapes, both personal and professional. For the archive module this year, I chose to make a documentary about this footage. What started off as an organic exploration of footage ended up as an emotional journey through my mum's career and an insight into her obsession with filming everything around her.
The Strand tells the story of Sunny McCarthy, a young man suffering from paranoid delusions and an intense fear of the sea (all sparked by his mother's attempt to murder him when he was a boy). Sunny lives with his dad, Arthur in ‘Grey Strand’ a small run-down fishing town on the coast of Ireland. Sunny spends most of his days either in therapy or with his best mate, Nick who is constantly coming up with overly ambitious ways to escape their grim hometown.
One night Nick finally puts one of his hair-brained plans into action when he attempts to steal from Corrigan Fletcher, an eccentric millionaire who has returned to Grey Strand – the town his family once ruled over. Nick injures himself during the robbery and calls on Sunny for help. Upon arrival at the abandoned Fletcher mansion, Sunny quickly realizes that things are not as they seem. After witnessing the death of his best friend at the hands of a strange cult led by Corrigan Fletcher, Sunny must uncover the secrets of Corrigan Fletcher and his hometown's dark past or be condemned to a waking nightmare of unrelenting horror.
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