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Gregory O'Reilly 

BA [Hons] Film + Television Production

Greg is a director and screenwriter based in Dublin. He has been developing his craft by directing short films and music videos and has recently completed his short graduation film Hereunder, a tragicomedy with surrealist undertones. He cites his main influences as Yorgos Lanthimos, The Coen Brothers, David Lynch and Martin McDonagh.

Logline: A gallery owner must prove his innocence to insurers and his own brother, when fraud investigators come knocking at his closet door.
The world of Hereunder is a manifestation of Ivan’s subconscious, his internal terror turned inside out with himself torn and mutilated at its centre. Ivan’s fears, failure and emotional state have created this space and this sequence of events.
I want the audience to feel like a voyeur— watching what happens in these forgotten backrooms
The writing style of Franz Kafka is a big influence on how I want to tell this story—namely his precision, humour and lack of overt emotion with which he describes his own terrors.
This film, underneath it all, is about the desperate pursuit of emotional security in times of extreme stress. This desperation is selfish and this desperation can defraud us. Ivan believes his security will come from the gallery. Robbie believes it will come from Ivan. Both are wrong, and both will pay for this.
Music Video: During Covid I made a music video for rap artist Jamel Franklin. In it, I was exploring the pain you feel after hurting someone you love.
Short Film

Ivan, a not so successful gallery owner, and his little brother Robbie, a successful artist, find themselves at odds when their attempt at insurance fraud is on the brink of ruining their lives. After staging the robbery of one of Robbie's most famous pieces, the two are faced with insurers in their closet asking about a ‘photo of a photo’ and a ‘geotag’. The brothers come to a head as familial bonds are tested when it's discovered that this fraud runs much deeper that initially perceived.
Hereunder is a surrealist film that captures the desperate pursuit of emotional security in times of extreme stress.


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