TRISH MCADAM FILMMAKER VISUAL ARTIST
  • TRISH McADAM FILM STILLS
  • SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY (2023)
  • AI BABY (2025)
  • THE END OF ROMANCE (in development for 2025)
    • End of Romance synopsis
  • FILMOGRAPHY
  • OUTCRY AND WHISPER (2020)
    • OUTcry and Whispers screenings
  • To The Silenced (2021)
  • I Oedipus (2020)
  • IRISH FILM INSTITUTE 2019
  • CONFINEMENT (2019)
    • Confinement synopsis
    • Paul Caviston Lecture - Violence and Hospitality
    • Confinement screenings
  • STRANGERS OF KINDNESS (2015)
    • Synopsis
    • Screenings
    • Meghan Healy - Actor
    • Vyvienne Long - Composer
    • Marc Sherwin - Motion Graphics
  • ROUGHTIME (2012)
    • ROUGHTIME SYNOPSIS
    • ROUGHTIME SCREENING
    • RoughtTme Script
    • RoughTime - script images
    • Homelessness links
  • WHAT AM I DOING HERE? (2009)
    • WHAT AM IDOING HERE? SYNOPSIS
    • WHAT AM IDOING HERE? SCREENINGS
  • flirting with the light (2001)
    • FLirting with the light screenings
    • Flirting with the Light Synopsis
  • SNAKES AND LADDERS (1996)
    • Snakes Screenings
  • HOODWINKED (1998)
    • Hoodwinked Screenings
  • THE DRIP (1985)
    • THE DRIP SCREENINGS
    • THE DRIP Cast and Crew
    • THE DRIP MISCELLANEOUS
  • NEW YORK 81 (1981)
    • NEW YORK 81 SCREEnings
  • NO ENEMIES - LIU XIAOBO (2012)
    • Liu Xiaobo Statement
    • Liu Xiaobo links
  • WHISTLE - BLOWER (2016)
  • A Poem To Liu Xia (2015)
    • The Poem
    • Liu Xia Photo Exhibition
    • Letter
    • Liu Xia Links
  • CAGED BIRD - CHEN (2011)
  • AI WEIWEI PETITION ANIMATION (2011)
  • CONTACT







CONFINEMENTa short film by Trish McAdam 
A TIMESPACE MAP
 
A timespace map, across 500 years of North Inner city, Dublin, from Henrietta Street to Grangegorman, using motion graphics, live footage and charcoal drawings, narration voiced by Aidan Gillen, questioning the arbiters of socially acceptable norms. 

A fragmented journey, across time and space over 500 years, through the architectural, psychological and socio-political changes in a confined space of Dublin’s north inner city.From the 16thand 17th century land grab creation of the Monck and Moore estates to economic growth and the vast townhouses of Dublin’s first Georgian street, Henrietta Street, to changing roles of the King’s Inns, Broadstone, 18thcentury and 19th century high tech, canal and railway, to 19th/20thand 2ist century innovation in social control and rehabilitation, from the Richmond Penitentiary and Mental Asylum, to Grangegorman, St Brendan’s, now transformed to the Phoenix Health Centre and the new Technology Universcity Dublin campus, and all the questions this suggests for the future. 
 
Narrated by the imagined, irreverent voice of a dead artist friend, Tony Rundenko, voiced by Aidan Gillen and music by composer Roger Doyle.
With charcoal drawings, animation and live action footage created and scripted by Trish McAdam, with collaboration, on motion graphics, from Marc Sherwin, Psychotherapist, Dr Paul Caviston, and advisors Orla Barry (former CEO Mental Health Ireland), and meetings with staff of the GDA, HSE and National Archives, King’s Inns and Broadstone. 
 
  • TRISH McADAM FILM STILLS
  • SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY (2023)
  • AI BABY (2025)
  • THE END OF ROMANCE (in development for 2025)
    • End of Romance synopsis
  • FILMOGRAPHY
  • OUTCRY AND WHISPER (2020)
    • OUTcry and Whispers screenings
  • To The Silenced (2021)
  • I Oedipus (2020)
  • IRISH FILM INSTITUTE 2019
  • CONFINEMENT (2019)
    • Confinement synopsis
    • Paul Caviston Lecture - Violence and Hospitality
    • Confinement screenings
  • STRANGERS OF KINDNESS (2015)
    • Synopsis
    • Screenings
    • Meghan Healy - Actor
    • Vyvienne Long - Composer
    • Marc Sherwin - Motion Graphics
  • ROUGHTIME (2012)
    • ROUGHTIME SYNOPSIS
    • ROUGHTIME SCREENING
    • RoughtTme Script
    • RoughTime - script images
    • Homelessness links
  • WHAT AM I DOING HERE? (2009)
    • WHAT AM IDOING HERE? SYNOPSIS
    • WHAT AM IDOING HERE? SCREENINGS
  • flirting with the light (2001)
    • FLirting with the light screenings
    • Flirting with the Light Synopsis
  • SNAKES AND LADDERS (1996)
    • Snakes Screenings
  • HOODWINKED (1998)
    • Hoodwinked Screenings
  • THE DRIP (1985)
    • THE DRIP SCREENINGS
    • THE DRIP Cast and Crew
    • THE DRIP MISCELLANEOUS
  • NEW YORK 81 (1981)
    • NEW YORK 81 SCREEnings
  • NO ENEMIES - LIU XIAOBO (2012)
    • Liu Xiaobo Statement
    • Liu Xiaobo links
  • WHISTLE - BLOWER (2016)
  • A Poem To Liu Xia (2015)
    • The Poem
    • Liu Xia Photo Exhibition
    • Letter
    • Liu Xia Links
  • CAGED BIRD - CHEN (2011)
  • AI WEIWEI PETITION ANIMATION (2011)
  • CONTACT