BROKEN MIRROR by Tony Flynn (39:30 IRL 2004)

'Broken Mirror' is the first film ever to be publicly screened by 16-year old Tony Flynn who is currently a fifth year student at Terenure College, Dublin and has been writing screenplays and making short films with his school friends since he was 13.

Small time drug pusher Johnny Clarkin thinks that he has found the perfect deal when two friends, Luke and Brian, come to him for a stash of heroin with the promise of big money. However when Brian finds he can't pay up he steals the money from Luke putting Luke in danger of Clarkin. In a desperate struggle for help Luke goes to Ronan, the one person he can trust. Ronan agrees to give Luke enough money to try and run away from Clarkin. With Luke gone Clarkin is at the mercy of his boss, the psychopathic Kemper. Either Clarkin finds Luke and the money, or he pays the price with his own life.

'Broken Mirror' is a gritty, violent drug saga as Luke, Ronan and Clarkin discover that while the first hit's always free, the second may cost them their lives.

2 artists, Six young people, brand new digital filmmaking from Killinarden.   Edele Cummins, Michael Usher, Denise Gaines , Lorraine Smith, Wesley Brennan, Terence Salmon   Mark Cullen + Brian Duggan   The films in 'Short Shorts' are the result of weekly workshops, discussions and arguments, ideas, notes, dreams and throw away comments. During the process the new group visited some of Dublin 's most prestigious galleries - the Hugh Lane Gallery , the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the RHA Gallery and the Douglas Hyde - for the first time. They found the work there interesting, but in general the response to the video work on display was "not impressed, we could do better."   The films are short, original and brand new.  

• Killinarden Killer
• LFS. (Local Fitness Survival)
• The Gulf War II
• Still Time
• Dinner in a Glass
• The Spike Soft
• Scrutiny
• Devil Car  

Production by artists Brian Duggan and Mark Cullen.   Commissioned by South Dublin County Council, funded through the Department of the Environment Percentage for Art Scheme; Artworking.

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