Dean Kavanagh

Biography

Dean Kavanagh is an experimental filmmaker from Ireland. Over the past 14 years, he has created 70 shorts and 6 feature films. His cinema intricately forges a new relationship between contemporary and legacy media formats, while combining materialist film methodologies with a focus on narrative structures. This work has been described as part of an important new direction in Irish cinema and has been screened at film festivals and cultural institutions internationally. His filmmaking is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Directed

1. In Passing (2011) — Director
2. Return of Suspicion (2014) — Director
3. Animal Kingdom (2017) — Director
4. Backmatter (1) (2012) — Director
5. Hole in the Head (2022) — Director
6. Forbidden Symmetries (2014) — Director
7. Poor Edward (2009) — Director
8. The Man in Autumn (2010) — Director
9. The Distance (2010) — Director
10. Light from an Old Town (2011) — Director
11. Good Evening (2012) — Director
12. Last Sunday (2011) — Director
13. Detritus (2011) — Director
14. Backmatter (2) (2013) — Director
15. Abandon (2012) — Director
16. First Transmission (2014) — Director
17. Maritime (2012) — Director
18. Nocturnum (2012) — Director
19. Sound from the Valley Floor (2012) — Director
20. Revenants on Trial (2013) — Director
21. Cut to the Chase (2015) — Director
22. The Curse of Johnny Kline 3D (2015) — Director
23. Friends with Johnny Kline (2015) — Director
24. A Harbour Town (2013) — Director
25. Polar Nights (2015) — Director
26. History of Water (2013) — Director
27. Late Hours of the Night — Director

Also appeared in

1. Only Human (2009)
2. TRAILERS (2016)
3. Bipedality (2010)
4. Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021) (2021)
5. Shingle Beach (2008)
6. Forbidden Symmetries (2014)
7. Nineveh (2016)
8. Ten Years In The Sun (2015) — Nicholas
9. HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind (2013)
10. Cloud of Skin (2015)
11. History of Water (2013)
12. Polar Nights (2015)
13. Out of Here (2013) — John