Donal Gilligan

Muerte : 2010-09-19

Películas

Time of the Comet
Director of Photography
A young man is searching for the war to free his country and establish freedom. Instead of war he finds the love of his life.
Kitchen
Director of Photography
Tensions rise in a Glasgow kitchen as the cooks deal with the pressures of the job. When an ex-criminal gets a job at the best kitchen in Glasgow, he has to fight to prove himself in the harsh culinary world.
Omagh
Director of Photography
Mientras toda Irlanda se preparaba en junio de 1998 para votar en referéndum el Acuerdo de Paz de Viernes Santo, un grupo de disidentes del IRA Provisional llevó a cabo un atentado con el fin de provocar la ruptura entre Londres y Dublín y el consiguiente abandono del proceso de paz. Este grupo, que se autodenominó IRA Auténtico, eligió para el atentado Omagh, una pequeña localidad en la que católicos y protestantes habían convivido pacíficamente a lo largo de los 30 años del conflicto de Irlanda del Norte.
John McGahern: A Private World
Director of Photography
On March 30th 2006, after a life-time of dedication to his art, John McGahern, one of Ireland's most distinguished writers, sadly passed away after a long illness. Since the publication of his first book in 1963, John McGahern was at the cultural heart of Irish life. He was in the happy position of being universally praised by the critics and equally loved by the reading public. John McGahern: A Private World was filmed in 2004 just prior to the publication of his memoirs and these memoirs form the backbone of the documentary. Through intimate interviews, a strong and compelling sense of the man emerges, offering a rare insight into the creative process.
Dead Bodies
Director of Photography
Tommy es un joven holgazán que vive en un apartamento destartalado, no tiene prisa por nada y considera que la vida está hecha para ser vivida. Sin embargo, su situación cambia abruptamente cuando vuelve con su insufrible ex-novia Jean. Durante una de sus frecuentes peleas domésticas, Jean se cae accidentalmente, se golpea la cabeza y muere. A pesar de que fue un accidente, Tommy teme ir a la cárcel, así que decide deshacerse del cuerpo en el bosque local, sólo para descubrir que no es el primero. Mientras está cavando la tumba se encuentra con otro cadáver enterrado.
Watermelon
Director of Photography
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
A Walk with Kiarostami
Camera Operator
U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before.
Oileán Thoraí
Camera Operator
Tory Island, nine miles off the coast of Donegal is the most remote inhabited island off Ireland. Its notorious inaccessibility and unforgiving landscape has not deterred 150 people from making this island their home. Óílean Thoraí captures, over the course of eighteen months, the changing patterns of life on Tory. It’s an intimate portrayal, exploring the lives of the islanders, their character and community.
Country
Cinematography
The film describes the relationship between a father and his two motherless sons in Ireland, and how it changes when their aunt from London arrives.
Rough for Theatre I
Director of Photography
An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the men are not destined to get along together.
How to Invent Reality
Cinematography
Jon Bang Carlsen's essay about his way of approaching reality with a camera. Following the filming of "It's Now or Never", the story of an Irish bachelor's quest for love, Jon Bang Carlsen elaborates on how he manipulates reality in order to get to the core of it. " Staged documentary " he calls his method.
It's Now or Never
Cinematography
The irish west coast: Jimmy, a lonesome man in his mid-50s, dreams of having a wife. He contacts a matchmaker.
Black Wind, White Land
Director of Photography
This documentary explores the tragic impact of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion on the people of Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine.
Hear My Song
Clapper Loader
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.