GERMAN PREMIERE
Bremen Film Festival
April 12th & 13th
OUTLINE
TRAILER
TITLE
Hole in the Head
SYNOPSIS
Part-time projectionist and amateur filmmaker, John Kline Jnr, is mute and suffers from missing time. He hires local actors to play his parents in a series of recreated home movies in order to investigate their unsolved disappearance 25 years earlier.
LONG OUTLINE
Hole in the Head is an independent 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 private ritual.
TAGLINE
GENRE
Time out of mind.
Dark comedy, experimental, arthouse.
TECH SPEC
CONTACT
90 Minutes
4K DCP, 5.1 Dolby Digital
35mm Print, Dolby SR
STILLS
PRODUCTION
Hole in the Head is a fiction feature film embroidered through a tapestry of retrograde and contemporary media formats. The project was brought to life by a dedicated team of artists with nearly two decades experience in the film industry.
The production of Hole in the Head took place across the island of Ireland throughout 2020 and 2021 with an international cast and crew.
Hole in the Head is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
HOLE IN THE HEAD
KEY PERSONNEL
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EXHIBITION SPEC
1.85:1 / 90 Minutes / 35mm Print, Dolby SR
4K DCP, 5.1 Dolby Digital
