Aine O'Brien is Head, Department of Media Technologies, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. Her work moves fluidly between documentary production and critical written engagement with visual epistemology and ethno-graphic method. She is currently researching and co-directing with Alan Grossman an ethnographic documentary on the subject of migrant Eastern European Jewish labour practices in Dublin in the early 1900.
An ethnographic performative documentary about the Edinburgh-based exiled Kurdish composer Mohamed Abbas Bharam – one of many prominent Kurdish musicians residing in western Europe since the mid-1970s. In 1976, M. A. Bharam was sacked from his Baghdad position in Iraqi radio and television for refusing to perform at a Ba’thist Party convention, celebrating the leadership of Sadam Hussein. The title…
‘Promise and Unrest’ chronicles a migration story of maternal sacrifice and love labour. Separated from her daughter Gracelle at 7 months, Noemi Barredo left the Philippines for work in Malaysia to support her parents and extended family before arriving in Ireland in 2001. Filmed over a five-year period Promise and Unrest is an ethnographic portrayal of a migrant woman performing…