Dean Kavanagh

Directing · Acting · Crew · Editing · Sound · Writing

Born July 10, 1989, Dublin, Ireland

Dean Kavanagh is an experimental filmmaker from Ireland. Over the past 14 years, he has created 70 shorts and 6 feature films. His cinema intricately forges a new relationship between contemporary and legacy media formats, while combining materialist film methodologies with a focus on narrative structures. This work has been described as part of an important new direction in Irish cinema and has been screened at film festivals and cultural institutions internationally. His filmmaking is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Filmography

• 2022Hole in the Head — Director, Writer
• 2021Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)
• 2017Animal Kingdom — Sound Editor, Writer, Director, Co-Producer, Cinematography
• 2016Nineveh
• 2016TRAILERS
• 2015Cloud of Skin — Producer
• 2015Cut to the Chase — Director
• 2015Friends with Johnny Kline — Director
• 2015Polar Nights — Director, Writer
• 2015Ten Years In The Sun — Nicholas, Makeup Artist, Director of Photography
• 2015The Curse of Johnny Kline 3D — Director
• 2014First Transmission — Director
• 2014Forbidden Symmetries — Idea, Director, Sound Designer
• 2014Return of Suspicion — Director
• 2013A Harbour Town — Editor, Director, Cinematography
• 2013All Mortal Flesh — Cinematography
• 2013Backmatter (2) — Director
• 2013HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind — Sound, Director of Photography
• 2013History of Water — Writer, Director
• 2013Out of Here — John
• 2013Revenants on Trial — Director
• 2012Abandon — Director
• 2012Backmatter (1) — Director
• 2012Good Evening — Director
• 2012Maritime — Director
• 2012Nocturnum — Director
• 2012Sound from the Valley Floor — Director
• 2011Detritus — Director
• 2011In Passing — Cinematography, Director
• 2011Last Sunday — Director
• 2011Light from an Old Town — Director
• 2011Shellshock — Cinematography
• 2010Bipedality
• 2010The Distance — Director
• 2010The Man in Autumn — Director
• 2009Good Arrows — Writer
• 2009Only Human
• 2009Poor Edward — Director
• 2008Shingle Beach
• Late Hours of the Night — Director, Creator