Michael Higgins Movies

In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, an elderly gravedigger revisits a traumatic event through the decaying visions of his fragmented dreams.

Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundary of documentary and fiction. It follows a couple adrift and disoriented in the...

Two actors play two lovers before meeting death in a car crash. They drift through muddled memories and moments in search of one another.

Entirely shot one frame at a time the project looks at the craft of filmmaking filtered through thematic lenses of ritual, desire and horror, themes...

In a remote rural estate house, a woman sleeps, she is alone. It’s a time not far from the dawn of the moving image, the obsessed and wealthy...

A documentary like no other. Starting with the bizarre practices and fantasies of a group of filmmakers working under the label Experimental Film...

A totemic walkabout through a single cycle of John Moriarty’s Dreamtime, the film is a waking nightmare. The textures and patterns, light and...

Two friends spend their time consumed in the forgotten moments of the everyday that underpin touristic adventure. It is in these moments that we see...

Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep is a hypnotic and oneiric cinematic poem composed from footage Michael Higgins shot on the road across Alberta...

Funnel Web Family Refrigerated is a refrigerated version of the 13 minute Funnel Web Family i.e. it lasts longer. Similar to the defrosted version it...

Short film by Michael Higgins.