Jacqueline Heeley & Philippe Faujas
Concentrating on things seen from our doorway that occur in the city or elsewhere and that mostly go unnoticed
Biography
The themes we explore are usually concerned with memory, uncertainty, place and loss.
We shoot mostly in black and white using what could probably termed Lo-Fi/Dated video equipment.
Our films are self-funded and, consequently, avail of next-to-no budget.
We value the freedom this self-inflicted situation provides to develop the stories we want to tell by drawing together the threads of writing, filming, editing, grading and sound construction, although very rarely in this order as each story imposes its particular requirements.
Five of our films are available on the pay per view platform Visualcontainer.tv
Our 19 films have been shown at the following festivals:
2025:
3rd apart International Short Film, Video and Photography Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey
2024:
Sirene wAVe Movie, Italy
2023:
Mythical Common Lands curated by Priyanka Das, ABC No Rio, New York City
Digital Gate International Film Festival/Domum Festival (Algeria).
2022:
VideoAktion #3 (Berlin), Esto Es Para Esto (Mexico), Pugnant Film Series (Athens).
2021:
KinoKlub Split (Croatia), Muestra Internacional La Mirada Inquieta (Cuba), Experiments in Cinema v16.1 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA), Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival (Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka), International Video Art Festival Now&After (Moscow), Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith (London).
2020:
'Displacements' The MExIndex 2020 Screening (Ireland), Proyector 2020 (Madrid, Spain), The Other Side (Anonymous Waves White Page Gallery), Online International Video Art Festival Now&After (awarded The Honorary Jury Mention), The Wrong Biennale (In Absentia Digital, Italy), Pavilion Punk Cinema Festival (Amsterdam).
2019:
Simultan Film Festival (Romania), Presents for Jonas (Microscope Gallery, New York), Hazel Eye Festival.
aDifferent Festival, (Wisconsin, 2017), Festival de Cortometrajes "Jose Francisco Rosado" PACAS (Ciudad Real, Spain, 2016), Visionara 22, (Siena, Italy, 2015), Sky Road Film Festival (Clifden, 2015), 6th Cairo Video Festival (2014), International Film Poetry Festival (Athens, 2014),
Two of our films were published by Ob'Art, (Barcelona, 2009) and the Journal of Short Film (Ohio State University, 2012). In 2015, we participated in Culture Night with films at Glór, Ennis and at the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. In 2017, two our short films were screened as part of Glór's Film Season Programme. In 2018, In Your film was selected to represent MexIndex at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). In 2019, our film Nearly All Your Unknown Poems was broadcast on US cable access stations as part of the Here Comes Everybody programme.
