Dean Kavanagh

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.

Often works with

Rouzbeh Rashidi
5 titles together
Animal Kingdom, Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021), Ten Years In The Sun
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Maximilian Le Cain
5 titles together
Animal Kingdom, Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021), Ten Years In The Sun
Atoosa Pour Hosseini
4 titles together
Only Human, Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021), Ten Years In The Sun
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Reza Rashidi
3 titles together
Only Human, Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021), Ten Years In The Sun
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Jann Clavadetscher
3 titles together
Animal Kingdom, Ten Years In The Sun, Forbidden Symmetries
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James Devereaux
3 titles together
Hole in the Head, Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021), HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind

Full filmography · 35

Hole in the Head
Director and Writer
2022
Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)
cast
2021
Animal Kingdom
Writer and Director
2017
Nineveh
cast
2016
Cloud of Skin
cast
2015
Cut to the Chase
Director
2015
Polar Nights
cast and Director and Writer
2015
Ten Years In The Sun
as Nicholas
2015
Friends with Johnny Kline
Director
2015
Return of Suspicion
Director
2014
First Transmission
Director
2014
Forbidden Symmetries
cast and Director
2014