Jacqueline Heeley & Philippe Faujas
Visto desde el Zaguán
Concentrating on things seen from our doorway that occur in the city or elsewhere and that mostly go unnoticed
Seaside Seafront
By Jacqueline Heeley
The Sound of Birdsong
2024 15'85" B&W/Colour
The tale of a man who is waiting for everything to
fall into place
Safe House
2023 17'45" B&W/Colour
Somewhere in a remote part of Ireland, a man is
confined to a house.
Has he wronged someone or has someone wronged
him?
Is he fully sure why he is there?
And does he have
choices?
Notes for a film
2022 20'29" B&W/Colour
She wonders if she'll get word.
Sirene wAVe Movie (Italy, 2024)
Mythical Common Lands curated by
Priyanka Das (ABC No Rio, New York City, 2023)
The Lie of the Land
2022 10'08" B&W/Colour
At first we thought they were misinformed,
that
they had gotten the wrong end of the stick
and would soon realise
that they had made a mistake
but as time passed by it was us who
realized something else,
something far more sinister was
happening.
Digital Gate International Film Festival/Domum
Festival (Algeria, 2023)
Pugnant Film Series (Athens, Greece.
2022) (World Premiere)
The Long Way Round
2019 13'44" B&W
The intangibility of elsewhere.
Esto Es Para Esto Festival, Monterrey City, Mexico, 2022
Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Tokyo, Kyoto and Fukuoka, 2021
Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London, 2021
KinoKlub Split, Croatia, 2021
International Video Art Festival Now&After 2020, Moscow
'Displacements' MExIndex 2020 Screening, Ireland
Online International Video Art Festival Now&After 2020
awarded The Honorary Jury Mention.
The Other Side, Anonymous Waves White Page Gallery
Punk Cinema Festival, Amsterdam
dead end
2019 09'11" B&W/Colour
Given the circumstances, it is highly unlikely that any headway will be made.
VideoAktion #3, Berlin, 2022
Esto Es Para Esto Festival, Monterrey City, Mexico, 2022,
Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Tokyo, Kyoto and Fukuoka, 2021
Muestra Internacional La Mirada Inquieta, 2021, Cuba
KinoKlub Split ,Croatia, 2021
Experiments in Cinema v16.1, 2021, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Punk Cinema Festival, Amsterdam
Proyector 2020, Madrid, Spain
Simultan Festival 2019, Timisora, Romania
"Presents for Jonas", Microscope Gallery, New York, April 2019
Coastline
2018 40'45" Colour
Three places.
Three stories.
Un ou plus d'un
2018 14'23" Colour
If he had explained it properly, would it have turned out otherwise?
A Fork in the Road
2017 38'16" Black and White/Colour
A man struggles to find his bearings in unfamiliar surroundings.
Selected for the 2019 Hazel Eye Film Festival
Jeanne et Mathilde
2016 06'10" Black and White
Two girls who only know of one another through hearsay finally meet.
aDifferent Festival 2017, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Glór's Film Season, Ennis, Ireland, 2017
In your film
2015 04'49" Black and White / Colour
A place. A memory not fully erased.
Glór's Film Season, Ennis, Ireland, 2017
Sky Road Film Festival 2015, Clifden
Culture Night 2015, Glór, Ennis
Culture Night 2015, Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Visionara 22 (2015. Italia)
A wound we won't remember
2014 05'21" Black and White
An event, of which he knows nothing, and yet might be implicated in, has cast a shadow over their relationship.
International Film Poetry Festival (Athens, 2014)
Visionara 22 (2015. Italia)
Nearly all your unknown poems
2013 06'59" Black and White
He promised her he would carry out her wishes once she was gone.
6th Cairo Video Festival (2014)
A shift in the wind
2012 10'36" Black and White
When it begins it has already ended. And so, the story tries to disentangle itself from the hold this ending has over it.
Published in the Journal of Short Film #29
Playground
2011 07'49" Black and White
Children playing. Children running from war.
Children thinking about other children undergoing the ravages of war in faraway places.
Adults thinking about past wars.
Adults thinking about present wars.
Adults eyeing up the next Watch the trailerground.
Children just hoping that it will be all over soon.
Children longing to run towards their own playground.
Summer cold
2010 17'02" Black and White
A short story by Visto desde el Zaguán,
written in Paris in 1992, soundtrack created in Dublin in 1996,
filmed and edited in Barcelona in 2010.
Elle
2009 03'59" Colour
Elle's real story, a quiet morning in August 2008 in Barcelona.
DVD published by Ob'Art (Barcelona)
Chief Cook and Bottle-Washer
(a career in amateur film-making)
2009 27'00" Colour
Documentary about Dominic Coffey,
an Irish amateur film-maker, who enjoyed a 20-year career in Super 8 film-making.
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