Michael Higgins Movies

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...

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

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

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...

At One Fell Swoop deals with a stone carver and his metamorphic wander through rural Ireland. In passing he slips through the film’s frames...

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

Featuring Brandon Hill, County Kilkenny, Ireland. Elevation: 515 meters, the highest point in Co. Kilkenny, situated near the River Barrow and the...

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...

Short film by Michael Higgins.

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

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

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...

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...