Calvin Doyle
Calvin Doyle is a director, writer and designer living in Athlone Co. Westmeath. With formal training in visual communications and design his creative process has grown to encompass all aspects of art, design, video and written work. His films primarily focus on exposing the realities of contemporary Irish life.
Artist Statement
Irish film has yet to find it’s own worth within world cinema. For a country with a rich storytelling tradition, our films lack the fair and life they so desperately deserve. In order to be internationally accepted we have abandoned our identity and forsaken what makes us unique and filtered ourselves to ft a universal Hollywood form. Our films are generic stories that give the audience what they want, when they want it and how they want it. What is Irish about that? Irishness is anything but obvious, it is cryptic, t is complex, it is both nothing and everything. Sadly our films fail to reflect this, all we have are films placed in Ireland, but none about the Irish people. This approach has rendered Irish film insignificant. We must step out from under the shadow of others and reclaim our own form of storytelling and portray true Irishness. This country is alive, all we have to do is notice it, and once we do, Irish cinema will have a genre of its own.
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