Dean Kavanagh Movies

Hole in the Head is an experimental feature film in which the protagonist re-stages his family's home movies in order to recall a traumatic event. Melding new with old technologies and a film-within-a-film structure, Hole in the Head proposes a hauntological discourse on autofiction, trauma and...

The troubling hallucinations of a deranged mind.

A man investigates a memory of places and people. The evidence drifts deeper and deeper into an unforgivable jungle; he might not be the true owner of his memories, his thoughts may not be of his own, it may not even be his body.

Originally conceived as a road movie, Sound from the Valley Floor is at once a film diary and a perverse comedy permeated with a dream logic.

A compendium of home movies sewn into a fragmented nocturnal narrative on travel

A young man films his family to better understand them and as a result is destroyed by them.

A man cruises the streets of his old neighbourhood at nightfall.

Stertched images along stretched time.

Cut to the chase was a phrase used by Hollywood studio executives, meaning “don't bore us with the dialogue - get to the interesting scenes without unnecessary delay." Cut to the Chase is a film crafted through images captured from a customised telecine apparatus and combines archival...

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 no escaping the mask, there is no escaping the resonating echoes of images and sounds that cross each other over time. There is no escaping the cinema....

This found footage project takes the form of four experimental films surrounding the mystery of the titular character. Rather than overtly appearing in each film, Johnny Kline is more a summation of the evils within the film as a whole: he is a monstrosity of cinema. By composing fragmented...

In Passing is a collaboration between seven different filmmakers from around the world in response to Jesse Richards' 2008 Remodernist Film Manifesto.

The first film in a two-part study of daily routines.

A séance of old and new light.

The discovery of an ancient artefact. The night extends beyond the grip of reality. The inhabitants of a small community perish.

The latest materialist gesture in cinema's dematerialisation- uncompromising alter-ego Johnny Kline returns in the form of found and partially destroyed early 20th century pornography and found material depicting domestic scenes. Always inappropriate in his re-appropriation of found materials Kline...

Onlookers at the canal.

A contract killer reluctantly accepts a last minute assignment in the run-up to Christmas. The routine job takes an unexpected turn, and he finds himself morally and emotionally challenged.