Film Details
| Series/Newsreel title | SHORT SHORTS |
| Episode/Item title | What Miro Saw |
| Sponsor | Bórd Scánnán na hEireann/Irish Film Board |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Director | MURPHY, Pat |
| Script/Adaptation | MURPHY, Pat |
| Photography | MANLY, Laurence |
| Sound recording | FLANAGAN, Robert |
| Editing | FAGAN, Niamh |
| Cast | Orla Brady |
| Colour | col |
| Sound | Dolby Digital |
| Duration | 3 |
| Release date | 2002 |
| Copy | IFA |
| Summary | An experimental film in which a woman returns to her Dublin home to discover the events of 11 September 2001 live on television. She is watched by her dog as she contacts friends in New York. The film ends with a quotation from the artist Robert Janz: 'Seeing is believing the unbelievable'. |
| Note | The artist Robert Janz's studio stood in the shadow of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre. The film contains drawings (faxed through to the protagonist) referring to the September 11th disaster. The quotation that ends the film is slightly different from that found on Janz's web site, which reads 'Not seeing is believing the unbelievable'. The Miro referred to in the title might refer to the tapestry by the Spanish artist Juan Miro that was destroyed in the World Trade Centre on September 11th. Short Shorts aims to promote new Irish cinema, add to the range and scope of short filmmaking, and to encourage talent in all areas of film production. Filmmakers are encouraged to submit proposals for imaginative and eye-catching films from one to three minutes long. The results are strange, witty, unexpected, colourful, mini-narratives, abstractions with music, arguments, jokes, messages .... |
| Format | 35mm |
| Production credits | spon: Bord Scannan na hEireann, d/sc: Pat Murphy, dop: Laurence Manly, ed: Niamh Fagan, s.dsgn: Robert Flanagan. |
| Genre/Category | Short Film Drama Experimental |
| Keywords | 9/11 Art Terrorism New York Twin Towers Dublin Communication Robert Janz |