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    Joe Lee

     

    Address: 23 Carleton Road, Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland

    Website: www.joelee.ie

    Email: info@joelee.ie

    Tel:  +353 (0)87 6494532

    Film Type: Live Action

    Bio

     

    Joe Lee a native Dubliner graduated from the National College of Art and Design in the early 1980s. He has worked as an independent film and video maker since then directing film and television drama and documentary in a range of art and production contexts. From the 1990s his work extended to include a series of video documentation/archive projects with Irish National Cultural Institutions. He directed the public art project Out of Place in St Michael’s Estate Inchicore 1999 to 2003

     

    His work includes an extensive range of film/arts projects in Inchicore, O’Devaney Gardens

    and the North West Inner City Markets Area of Dublin. He has exhibited video artworks in various exhibitions winning two awards at the Exhibition of Visual Art (EVA) Limerick, most recently for the video installation Dark Room 2003. His video installation work Open Season in the 1997 Once Is Too Much exhibition is represented in the permanent collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He also has individual works in a number of private collections.

     

    He was film maker in residence for Dublin City Council in 2009 and launched the popular 52 minute documentary Bananas on the Breadboard about the story of the markets area and street trading in Dublin. His recent work includes projects with Theatre Club at the Project Arts Centre, in the productions HISTORY and the short film Rabbit Hole for their production of ADDICTION. The Babel DVD project with composer Roger Doyle and Dance Ireland, A series of short web films for CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign, and projects for North Inner City Violence Against Women Action Group, and St Michael’s Estate Regeneration Board.

     

    His latest film project The Area made with choreographer Rionach NiNeill of Ciotog Dance Company with the Machusla Dance Group was screened at the prestigious Dance On Camera Film Festival in New York in February 2014 and at Cinedans film Festival in Amsterdam in March 2014 where won the overall Festival Award for best film.

    Awards

     

    Various Arts Council awards and bursaries during the 80’s and 90’s

     

    2003 Exhibition of Visual Art Limerick EVA Award

    Filmography

     

    THE RABBIT HOLE, A THEATRE CLUB PRODUCTION FOR ADDICTION AT THE PROJECT ARTS CENTRE

    2014 – Short

     

    THE AREA

    2013 – Dance film with Ciotog Dance Company

     

    BABEL

    2012 – Arts documentation film

     

    CITYWIDE DRUGS CRISIS CAMPAIGN

    2012 – Public information films for the web

     

    NORTH INNER CITY VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACTION GROUP

    2012 – Public information film

     

    PAUL SEAWRIGHT VOICE OUR CONCERN

    2011 – Arts documentation film for the web

     

    PALIMPSEST PROJECT

    2011

     

    BANANAS ON THE BREADBOARD

    2010

     

    TAKING STOCK

    2010

     

    THE STAY SAFE PROGRAMME

    2010

     

    BLANCHARDSTOWN PARTNERSHIP

    2009

     

    ORDINANCE SURVEY OF IRELAND

    2009

     

    WORLD VISION IN KENYA

    2008

     

    THE HOARDING PROJECT

    2008

     

    BETWEEN EARTH SKY AND HOME

    2008

     

    DUBLIN BUS – DISABILITY AWARENESS

    2007 – DVD

     

    LONDUBH – HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE

    2007 – DVD

     

    BLAZING OUR TRAIL – INCHICORE REGENERATION BOARD

    2007 – DVD

     

    INSIDE OUT OUTSIDE IN (O’DEVANEY GARDENS COMMUNITY)

    2007

     

    CITY OF DUBLIN YOUTH SERVICES BOARD

    2006 – DVD

     

    MEMORY ART POWER – CITYARTS ORGANISATION

    2006 – DVD

     

    SIAR  – CONTEMPORARY IRISH ARTS SOCIETY

    2006 – DVD

     

    INCHICORE COMMUNITY DRUGS TEAM

    2006 – DVD

     

    SLIGO COUNTY COUNCIL ARTS SERVICE

    2006 – DVD

     

    RINGSEND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

    2006 – DVD

     

    DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL ARTS OFFICE

    2005 – DVD

     

    DEVOTION – TEAM THEATRE COMPANY

    2005 – DVD

     

    ANTI VANDALISM DVD WITH NIALL QUINN & ANDY REID – DUBLIN BUS

    2005 – DVD

     

    FACING FORWARD

    2004 – Documentary

     

    DUBLIN BUS

    2004 – Informational Piece

     

    WORLD VISION IN TANZANIA

    2004 – Documentary DVD

     

    THE MAKING OF ‘THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD’

    2004

     

    THE ARCH CLUBS – INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AWARENESS

    2004 – DVD

     

    DREAMS IN THE DARK – IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

    2003

     

    DARK ROOM – IMMA ARTS COUNCIL VIDEO ART INSTALLATION

    2003 – DVD

     

    THE MAKING OF ‘THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS’ 02 PRODUCTION – ABBEY EDUCATION DEPT)

    2003 – DVD

     

    RUHAMA (THE STORY OF AN ORGANISATION WHO WORK TO HELP AND SUPPORT VUNERABLE STREET PROSTITUTES IN DUBLIN)

    2002 – DVD

     

    OUT OF PLACE – VIDEO ART PROJECT

    1999

     

    THE HARD MAN

    1999 – Documentary – 52min

     

    A BASKET FULL OF WALLPAPER

    1998 – Short – 30min

     

    ONCE IS TOO MUCH – IMMA INCHICORE COMMUNITY DEV PROJECT

    1998

     

    OPEN SEASON – IMMA

    1997 – Video Installation IMMA Collection

     

    INTERSECTIONS – IMMA

    1994

     

    HINDESIGHT

    1993 – TV Documentary – 40min

     

    UNSPOKEN TRUTHS

    1992 – Documentary

     

    UNSPOKEN TRUTHS – IMMA

    1992

     

    HEARTFIELD

    1991 – TV Documentary – 40min

     

    THE COURIER

    1988 – Drama – 90min

     

    SOMETIME CITY

    1985 – Short – 30min

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