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David O'Reilly's The External World

Music Video / Film

Posted by Eliza Williams, 9 February 2011, 12:29    Permalink    Comments (8)

David O'Reilly's incredible animation The External World is a seriously dark but occasionally funny meditation on the anxieties and fears entrenched in modern life.

The film premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival, and is currently playing at various festivals around the globe, but was posted online for the first time yesterday. The version that O'Reilly has posted is, according to his website, updated with a couple of scenes that didn't feature in the original. The External World was co-written with Vernon Chatman, and features cameo voiceovers from Julian Barratt and Adam Buxton - see if you can spot them!

 

 

8 Comments

Saw this in Dublin at a screening a few months back.
A serious talent. Congratulations.
Paddy
2011-02-09 14:21:17


He's always making crazy, amazing shit that makes perfect sense.
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A
2011-02-09 19:14:12


While it is completely fragmented, it is absolutely brilliant! Bravo!
Lee Faber
2011-02-11 12:24:00


Captivating from start to finish. Fantastic story telling.
Ian McKinnon-Evans
2011-02-11 12:28:12


Genius
Joe
2011-02-11 12:42:21


Amazing original in places. A horrible, lucid nightmare.. The truth is ugly..
Humans are the worst parasites of all because we know, or should know better than animals.
Really like the polygons and the elusive pie.
Just ate an entire mushroom pizza while watching this.
squid
2011-02-11 13:21:04


...ouch...
marcel garbi
2011-02-11 13:25:13


Amazing!

A bit like Monkey Dust but even weirder and even better!
mark
2011-02-11 16:26:12


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