MOIRA TIERNEY : NEW YORK STORIES

Moira Tierney is a filmmaker from Dublin. Her filmography to date consists of 30 short and mid-length films which have screened extensively at institutions, galleries and festivals including the Fondation Cartier and Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Rio Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives in NYC, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and the Film Museum in Moscow. She was commissioned by the Peace III Initiative to make a film on the Irish border in 2010 (Are We There Yet?). She is co-founder of the SOLUS film collective, a Dublin-based group whose mission is to distribute Irish work abroad and to bring new international work to Ireland. Her most recent film, Down Claiborne, was shot in collaboration with the Mardi Gras Indian community in New Orleans and was featured in the IFI's Irish Focus series in 2019. Her films are distributed by the Collectif Jeune Cinéma in Paris.

The Film in a Box consists of an edited series of digital photos, presented in a small box, like a pack of card. The images can be shuffled, recomposed and excerpted at will - or combined with other images - allowing the owner to edit their own version of the "film" enclosed.

#5. NEW YORK STORIES

Series of 22 black and white drawings and texts from New York City.

The drawings in this series were all made on the NYC subway : people reading, waiting, sleeping, texting...

The texts are diary excerpts and give a slice of life on the streets of the city : snippets of conversations, political demonstrations, notions in transit, culminating in a party at a friend's house in Jersey City.