top of page
Ailín Ó Dálaigh Photographer | Filmmaker
CINE
The Still Image and the Labour Process: An Agitka
Dir. Ailín Ó Dálaigh, 2021
Shot on Standard (Double) 8mm film
Official Selection Victoria Film Festival
The Still Image and the Labour Process: An Agitka is an experimental short film made in the style of a silent Soviet agitational-propaganda short (agitka). In proper Soviet, or perhaps Vertovian, fashion, it argues through intertitles and montage that the cinema is a weapon for destroying the commodifying effects of still photography
Shot on Standard (Double) 8mm film
Official Selection Victoria Film Festival
The Still Image and the Labour Process: An Agitka is an experimental short film made in the style of a silent Soviet agitational-propaganda short (agitka). In proper Soviet, or perhaps Vertovian, fashion, it argues through intertitles and montage that the cinema is a weapon for destroying the commodifying effects of still photography
Oneirologue
Dir. Ailín Ó Dálaigh, 2020
Shot on 16mm
Official Selection Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival, Official Selection 3 Minute Film Festival Santa Barbera CA, Official Selection Short Circuit Film Festival Victoria BC, and Honourable Mention Los Angeles Underground Film Forum
A remembrance of a dream occurring in June of 2020. Composed of original footage and re-filmed found footage, Oneirologue presents the impression of a mind plagued by cinematic images and subconscious impulses
Shot on 16mm
Official Selection Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival, Official Selection 3 Minute Film Festival Santa Barbera CA, Official Selection Short Circuit Film Festival Victoria BC, and Honourable Mention Los Angeles Underground Film Forum
A remembrance of a dream occurring in June of 2020. Composed of original footage and re-filmed found footage, Oneirologue presents the impression of a mind plagued by cinematic images and subconscious impulses
Progress Workbook
Dir. Ó Dálaigh, 2022
How often does a trailer mis-advertise a film? I would argue this is a frequent occurrence, mandated to get “butts in seats.” Even one of my favourite trailers, for Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God, woefully mis-advertises its film by the inclusion of music alone (yet that’s what makes the trailer so great)
The trailer I have posted here fits into the category of misleading advertisement (especially thanks to its quasi-adoption of JLG’s style, RIP)
While working on movies, I frequently arrive at a situation where I have much of the photography for the picture complete, but am still waiting on either other parts of production or film from the lab. Here I end up, impatiently, editing a “trailer” (a hilarious idea for a short film) or a separate micro-short from the film’s footage (or occasionally other footage). GRINDCORE VACATION produced PC-4L in this fashion, THE STILL IMAGE AND THE LABOUR PROCESS: AN AGITKA produced ONEIROLOGUE, and now A PERSONAL NOTION OF PROGRESS has produced this “trailer,” which will, if plans go accordingly, be different from the finished short film
Shot on Kodak Vision 3 16mm film with a Krasnogorsk-3
How often does a trailer mis-advertise a film? I would argue this is a frequent occurrence, mandated to get “butts in seats.” Even one of my favourite trailers, for Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God, woefully mis-advertises its film by the inclusion of music alone (yet that’s what makes the trailer so great)
The trailer I have posted here fits into the category of misleading advertisement (especially thanks to its quasi-adoption of JLG’s style, RIP)
While working on movies, I frequently arrive at a situation where I have much of the photography for the picture complete, but am still waiting on either other parts of production or film from the lab. Here I end up, impatiently, editing a “trailer” (a hilarious idea for a short film) or a separate micro-short from the film’s footage (or occasionally other footage). GRINDCORE VACATION produced PC-4L in this fashion, THE STILL IMAGE AND THE LABOUR PROCESS: AN AGITKA produced ONEIROLOGUE, and now A PERSONAL NOTION OF PROGRESS has produced this “trailer,” which will, if plans go accordingly, be different from the finished short film
Shot on Kodak Vision 3 16mm film with a Krasnogorsk-3
Grindcore Vacation
Shot on digital and super 8mm
GRINDCORE VACATION melds the expository documentary, diary film, and live performance footage to produce a portrait of the musicians who play grindcore, an extreme sub-genre of punk/metal characterized by high speed and full volume. Shot during a weekend trip from Victoria BC to Dallas TX for a single DIY concert, it interviews members of Deterioration, Cognizant, and Imperial Slaughter. Live concert footage combines with interviews and Super 8mm film to create an impression of the people who play grindcore, why they love the genre, and their experiences as practitioners of the niche style
GRINDCORE VACATION melds the expository documentary, diary film, and live performance footage to produce a portrait of the musicians who play grindcore, an extreme sub-genre of punk/metal characterized by high speed and full volume. Shot during a weekend trip from Victoria BC to Dallas TX for a single DIY concert, it interviews members of Deterioration, Cognizant, and Imperial Slaughter. Live concert footage combines with interviews and Super 8mm film to create an impression of the people who play grindcore, why they love the genre, and their experiences as practitioners of the niche style
Racers
A home movie from June 2022 featuring the filmmaker's family
Shot on Fomapan R100 standard 8mm film with a nearly 90 year old Cine-Kodak Eight Model 25
Shot on Fomapan R100 standard 8mm film with a nearly 90 year old Cine-Kodak Eight Model 25
PC-4L Trailer
Official Selection Short Circuit Film Festival 2020
PC-4L is a short documentary following a powerviolence band’s ritual of drinking Four Loko during practice
A short film by Ailín Ó Dálaigh and Dariel Hernandez
Shot in February of 2019 on Super 8mm, released 2020, Kodak Vision3 50D
PC-4L is a short documentary following a powerviolence band’s ritual of drinking Four Loko during practice
A short film by Ailín Ó Dálaigh and Dariel Hernandez
Shot in February of 2019 on Super 8mm, released 2020, Kodak Vision3 50D
Petrification - Arachne Exsanguine
Dir. Ailín Ó Dálaigh, 2019
Music video for Portland, OR, USA death metal band Petrification
Shot in Victoria, BC, 09/15/19, on standard 8mm and super 8mm film
Music video for Portland, OR, USA death metal band Petrification
Shot in Victoria, BC, 09/15/19, on standard 8mm and super 8mm film
Victoria in Winter
Dir. Ailín Ó Dálaigh, 2019
Victoria, BC in February 2019, Fomapan R100
Victoria, BC in February 2019, Fomapan R100
Clippings from the Editing Room Floor
Dir. Ailín Ó Dálaigh, 2019
"Reflexive" from Mediated Form’s "A Demonstration of Mankind's Supremacy" tape
Video shot on Fomapan R100 with an Eumig c3m 8mm camera in Victoria BC during recording
MEDIATED FORM is a powerviolence band from Victoria BC that comprises the filmmaker Ailín Ó Dálaigh, Tyler Akis of Six Brew Bantha, and luthier/visual artist Sam Houston
MF's music may be found on mediatedform.bandcamp.com and they may be contacted at ailinxodalaigh@gmail.com
"Reflexive" from Mediated Form’s "A Demonstration of Mankind's Supremacy" tape
Video shot on Fomapan R100 with an Eumig c3m 8mm camera in Victoria BC during recording
MEDIATED FORM is a powerviolence band from Victoria BC that comprises the filmmaker Ailín Ó Dálaigh, Tyler Akis of Six Brew Bantha, and luthier/visual artist Sam Houston
MF's music may be found on mediatedform.bandcamp.com and they may be contacted at ailinxodalaigh@gmail.com
A Day at the End of 25 Years
Dir. Ailín Ó Dálaigh, 2020
Salvaged 8mm film shot on an Eumig C3M
Soviet "Sveta" film stock expired in 1984
Salvaged 8mm film shot on an Eumig C3M
Soviet "Sveta" film stock expired in 1984
Pooched - Get Down
Music video shot in a basement on a hill from Pooched's "BASEMENT DEMO 2019" tape
Shot and edited by Ailín Ó Dálaigh using an Eumig C3M double 8mm camera and Fomapan R100 BW Reversal film stock
Shot and edited by Ailín Ó Dálaigh using an Eumig C3M double 8mm camera and Fomapan R100 BW Reversal film stock
bottom of page