About
David Robinson and Bryan Michael Mills are a film-making duo from Enniskillen based in London. They are delighted to announce a screening of their new film Eel Soup at the Linnet Inn in Boho on Sunday 20th August at 7pm.
Eel Soup is a silent black and white film, with original score, loosely based on the story of Denis McCabe, a musician and employee of the Castle Caldwell Estate, Belleek and The Fiddler’s Stone - a tombstone made in his memory currently placed at the entrance to Castle Caldwell Forest Park, Co Fermanagh.
Filmed at the Linnet Inn, Boho, Castle Caldwell, Keenaghan Lough near Belleek and Rossigh on Lough Erne in 2022 using traditional analogue film techniques Eel Soup is bleak, surreal silent short film that references Beckett’s ‘First Love’ monologue, isolation and ghosts.
The stone reads:
BEWARE YE FIDLERS OF YE FIDLERS FATE NOR TEMPT YE DEEP LEAST YE REPENT TOO LATE: YE EVER HAVE BEEN DEEMED TO WATER FOES, THEN SHUN YE LAKE TILL IT WITH WHISKY FLOWS; ON FIRM LAND ONLY EXERCISE YOUR SKILL, THERE YOU MAY PLAY AND DRINK YOUR FILL. D.D.D. J.J.
Biog:
David Robinson and Bryan Michael Mills are a film-making duo from Enniskillen based in London.
They are gaining an international reputation for their idiosyncratic style combining music and stop-motion animation. Their new film The Boat has already been officially selected for Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Cork International Film Festival, AmDocs (USA) and ShortShorts (Tokyo). In November 2021 The Boat won best film at The Fungi Film Festival (USA).
Bryan Michael Mills is a composer, musician and actor. Previously a member of The Divine Comedy he now makes music for film - including 2012 BAFTA Best Short Pitch Black Heist and 2015 Sundance Best Foreign Film Slow West.
David Robinson is a photographer, printer, animator and writer working in design and advertising in London for 20 years before focusing on animation. He is also somewhat fanatical about mushrooms, writing and illustrating two children’s books made entirely from mushrooms - The Mushroom Picker and Penny Bun Helps Save the World - before award winning stop motion film The Boat.
They use stop motion photography, 8mm film and analogue recording techniques to make unique film and music inspired by mushrooms, magic and melancholia.
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The Boat - Screenings
Cork Film Festival, November 2021
Festival Cinema Jeune Public, Lausanne. November 2022
Fungi Film Festival, Seattle. November 2021
Tampere Film Festival, Finland. March 2022
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival. August 2022
Short Shorts Film Festival, Tokyo. June 2022
American Documentary and Animation Festival, Palm Springs. April 2022
Los Angeles Animation Festival. December 2021
Chicago Irish Film festival. March 2022
Copenhagen Short Film Festival. October 2021
Short to The Point, Bucharest. April 2021
Cartoon Club, Rimini. July 2021
Ortometraggi Film Festival, Turin. Sept 2021
Radical Mycology Convergence, Oregon. October 2022
California Museum of Natural History, San Francisco. January 2022
Hamburg Maritime Museum. August 2022
The Rio, London. November 2021
Close-Up, London. July 2023
New York Mycological Society Film Festival. October 2023
The Ice Skater
Berlin Flash Film Festival. May 2020
Roma Cinema DOC. May 2021
Animated Arizona Film Festival. January 2021
60 Second International Film Festival, Islamabad. August 2020
Life Screenings one Minute Film Festival, Florida. April 2021
