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Reuben Harvey

BA [Hons] Film + Television Production

Reuben Harvey is an award-winning, emerging director from Co. Laois, currently residing in Dublin. Reuben has spent the last five years developing a very unique and heavily music oriented directing style, which he incorporates into films and features unique characters and often surreal world settings and circumstances. As a classically trained musician, Reuben composes scores for all of his films, further enhancing his specific filmic style. Reuben has won several awards both in Ireland and abroad, including Dublin International Film Festival 2021, Cork International Film Festival 2021 and The Royal Television Society Student Awards London 2022.

*With Love, From Aidan* is Reuben's graduation film. Set in the near future, the story follows adopted AI, Aidan and his struggle to fit in with normal everyday life. This short is Reuben's latest work and most reflects the directors evolving style and heavily musically driven creative vision.

Reuben directed the short comedy *Flash_Thunder93* in the summer of 2020. The film follows two students who meet on the "Irish Meteorological/electrical storm enthusiasts website forum" and decide to watch a lightning storm together. The film went on to win the First Frame Award at the Dublin International Film Festival 2021, three Royal Television Society Awards for Comedy and Entertainment, Craft Skills: Sound and Undergraduate Writing. Reuben was also Highly Commended in Directing at the Cork International Film Festival 2021.

Reuben co-wrote, directed and scored this short film *The Comet*, which premiered at Cork International Film Festival 2022. The Comet follows Marco and Sophie as they plan a get together with friends on the same night as the passing of a fabled psychedelic comet, disrupting the party in unimaginable ways. The film was co-written and stars frequent collaborator Thomas Purdy.

*Abbeyleix House: Voices from the past* is a 30 minute documentary produced and directed by Reuben Harvey and commissioned by Lord Viscount Tom DeVesci. The film recounts the memories of past workers and labourers from the estate and gives insight into the social change in Ireland from the 1940s to present day.

Ciara Berkeley playing *Sarah* in *With Love, from Aidan*

Irish Soprano Sarah Lutterel performing *The Cold Song* from Henry Purcell's Opera King Arthur featured in *With Love, from Aidan*

Subliminal Messages Through The Vision of Krzysztof Kieslowski

My thesis explores the work of Polish film director Krzysztof Kieslowski who, despite the oppression of the communist government developed a cryptic and subliminal style which subtly criticised the government. There are many studies done on Krzysztof Kieslowski's works and his creative and spiritual effect on cinema as a whole, yet there are few studies contextualising his development or why he came to such a precise and unique subliminal style.

This paper investigates his background and early cinematic development before the fall of the Berlin wall in 1986 and beyond the social change in Poland after the end of communism.
By exploring the reasons behind his aesthetic choices I disassemble the different technical areas with the goal of understanding what connects the viewer to the subtextual messages Kieslowski is offering.
When it comes to his writing, directing, music and visual style, Kieslowski shows his vision in a unique, subliminal and transcendental form of experiential cinema.

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