Eóin Heaney

Biography

Eóin Heaney is an award winning artist filmmaker living and working in Dublin, Ireland. He studied film production in Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin and his previous work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Screen Ireland, CCI Paris, France and Germany’s FFF Bayern and the Berlinale Film Festival. His films use formal cinematic grammar, time and repetition to question our fragile relationships with identity, representation and lived reality. Heaney's most recent work includes the multi-award winning experimental film Spirit Level (an adaptation of Mycenae Lookout by poet Seamus Heaney), hybrid documentary Parish, and M/S a film exploring illness and care that draws on his seventeen years experience as primary carer for his mother.