Katie Jo McMahon
'BABÓG' is short observational documentary following a day in the life of my two little sisters, Connie and Margot. Other visual work produced throughout the course of my New Media Studies degree can be found on my Youtube Channel.
My thesis 'The Architecture of Intimacy: Attachment and Aversion in the Work of Sally Rooney' addresses the social fragmentation inherent to life in the modern age through the work of Sally Rooney, with particular emphasis on ways in which romantic love operates as compensation for the disintegration of community. Video essay accessible here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV59i3mAnMc
Other featured written pieces include a journalistic piece interrogating the rising rates of induced labour in Ireland, an essay exploring the limitations of language, and 'Sit Down, Sit Down', a script inspired by my grandfather's unshakable dedication to my grandmother throughout her battle with dementia.
Katie Jo McMahon is an aspiring writer, director, journalist and documentarian with an overwhelming inability to identify solely with one of the four. Work produced throughout the course of her degree is broad and varying by nature of the New Media Studies course, but remains consistently concerned with the study of language, dialogue and human dynamics – something that has always and will continue to inspire her.
