Dealing with other human beings can be exhausting, demoralising and incomprehensible. It's like an endurance test designed by somebody with a particularly cruel imagination. A colleague, who we thought we had a good working relationship with, slights us for no apparent reason. A potential employer...
Read MoreBy committing to a task we are telling ourselves that it is important, and consequently, our mind and body are energised. If you think about acting in a scene, whenever we are not properly committed to our action, our performance is unfocussed, it lacks precision and our intensity is...
Read MoreBlack Sun Cinema presents Rouzbeh Rashidi’s HSP: THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE TERRORS OF THE MIND Triskel Christchurch Cinema Wednesday 9 October, 6.30 pm blacksuncork.tumblr.com triskelartscentre.ie There is no escape… From one side of the globe to the other, there is no escaping the faces, the visions, the ever-watchful camera. There is...
Read MoreIt's amazing how many people hold back from going for the things they really want because they're worried that other people might think they don't deserve to have them. The reality is, these "other people" are not as obsessed about what we're doing (or intend to...
Read More"you've got machines humming in the background, it's kind of bleak and industrial and I wanted to kind of heighten that." In the first of a series of podcasts, I talk with sound artist, Jay Harris, about his work on the soundscape for Noirish Project. The conversation...
Read MoreI was struck recently when in an interview, an actress said of sex scenes she had done in a recent movie:"it was kind of humiliating sometimes, I was feeling like a prostitute."I don't know about you but I didn't go into acting in order to...
Read MoreWhether anyone loves or hates Noirish Project is out of our control.One thing is certain though: it's going to open up a whole new chapter in British cinema history. Subscribe and get email updates about the film’s progress...
Read MoreThe character is an illusion created in the mind of the viewer by the juxtaposition of the intentions of the actor and the fiction of the script. The character is not real. Macbeth is not real. Jaws is not real. Hannibal Lector is not real,...
Read MoreAlways strange when actors who are out of work say they're writing scripts in order to stay busy. Nobody gave them permission to write scripts but they do so anyway. Yet, when it comes to acting they feel that they need to wait to be...
Read MoreSometimes we can get so caught up in the minutiae of day to day tasks that we can no longer see the woods from the trees. We get so wrapped up in the workload of getting a production off the ground or in the endless...
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