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Frankie Was a Good Girl

A saint in the city.

Director

Year

1998

The Criminal Inside of Me

Cruising and bluesing with a sequence of four slides found on the street, (believed to be the Andrews Sisters) resampled and animated.

Director

Year

2000

Citygas

Year

2000

Il Mercenario

A man, no horse, no gun.

Year

2001

Tessies

A film shot in a Tessie Dorman’s shebeen in east Tyrone, a place of exile fro thinker and escapist since before living memory, since redeveloped, legally licenced, now closed down.

Year

2001

East of the River Nile

City saints.

Year

2002

Picking Up Change in the Kung Fu Theatre

Cigarette on newspape

Year

2004

Free as a Bird

Divis tower and mountain and a dead rapper.

Year

2006

Samuria

Borderland hinterland.

Year

2006

Pull Down Lads (Awingbigcell)

Before Sunrise is an experiment in response to On a Beautiful Day, a film made at the Berlin Wall by artist KP Brehmer in 1969. He was asked by a friend to retrace a walk and to record it on film. Harahan was asked by a fellow artist to do the same through Alexandra Park in North Belfast. He was given a Super-8 camera and one reel of film. The camera leads the viewer to a peace line separating the neighbouring communities.’

Year

2008

Before Sunrise

Year

2008

Stay Here a While

Year

2008

Focus on the Spiral (Cold Open Series)

Cold Open (Version 1) (2014) is a video montage made up of six sequences from a larger series filmed in north Belfast over the course of a year. During one of the sequences, the soundtrack of a couple discussing the husband’s drinking habits is accompanied by apparently unconnected visuals of rain-soaked branches. Later, a group of teenage boys are observed play-fighting. In the final sequence, a group of young people are shown gathered around a pram. Harahan, who is interested in what he calls the ‘dislocation of the familiar’, often uses music to achieve this sense of displacement. In Cold Open, his musical sources range from traditional Gaelic to heavy metal and drum and bass.

Year

2014

The Garden Of Daisies (Cold Open Series)

Six short films extricated from the undergrowth of the cold open series. The unfinished work was shot across 2007 to 2008, around Hopefield Avenue and the Waterworks in north Belfast, another “garden for the gardenless” much like Waterlow Park. And less. And more.

Year

2014