Gareth Stack

@garethstack
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Irish writer / director / DOP.

Irish writer and filmmaker. Fiction in Hobart, Cassandra Voices, Piranha!, The Runt, and Albedo One. Non fiction in Analogue Music Magazine, No More Workhorse, & Blue Ireland. Radio dramas serialised on Newstalk, Lyric FM, and the Radio Drama Revival podcast. Plays staged at the Scene and Heard, and New Irish Playbook festivals. Podcasts include 'Reading Plays' and 'Everybody Want to Love You'. Music videos for many Irish independent artists.

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My first feature documentary, 'Sightless Cinema' comes to RTE 1 August 6th at 11:15PM.

https://garethstack.com/2025/07/25/sightless-cinema-documentary/

Sightless Cinema Documentary

Two years ago I remigrated from Berlin with three months severance and no work lined up. Ciaran Taylor offered to hire me to film some of the upcoming Sightless Cinema shows, ten years after I firs…

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Pixar are screwed.
In a bizarre turn of events, I went into the ILAC centre bathrooms on Saturday and these cosplaying chaps were lined up just outside the jacks. After I entered the toilets who should I see but 'littler' himself, Justin Barrett, in full regalia emerging from a cubicle with his 'bodyguard'. Great to see a man of his stature using protection.

Fancy an evening of cheap entertainment and great films? We're running a one night festival of Georgian films at the Lexicon in Dun Laoghaire on Friday May 2nd. Tickets only 5 euro!

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/georgian-irish-film-festival-2025-tickets-1314143170599

Georgian Irish Film Festival 2025

A screening of Georgian Short Films and Documentaries for the Irish audience in the Lexicon Studio Theatre on May 2nd

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The Quiet of Tbilisi - Notes from the Georgian Revolution.

A short video essay based on my recent trip to Tbilisi, Georgia, a tiny country fighting for its life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shxzeKMqHyg

The Quiet of Tbilisi - Notes from the Georgian Revolution

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Just back from Tbilisi Georgia where a generation are making a stand against the Putinist regieme who’ve stolen an election and halted the process of European integration.

If you needed evidence that Luas / Transdev are truly awful - I was travelling to a friends funeral last week. First time ever forgot to tag on as I was in bits. Got ticketed getting off. Sent explanation with apology & link to death notice. Today I get this.

They will never get another penny from me.

One of my short art films is being shown next Tuesday at Visual Artists Ireland as part of a free lunchtime double bill. All welcome. Booking essential.

https://garethstack.com/2024/09/24/film-showing/

Film Showing NEXT WEEK

My experimental short film ‘What is lost can never be found’ will be shown next Tuesday 1st October at Visual Artists Ireland, 2 Curved St in Temple Bar. The film will be shown alongsid…

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Some thoughts about the tide of AI generated misinformation, identity theft and pornography and the inevitable response.

https://garethstack.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/the-purpose-of-a-system-is-what-it-does/

The purpose of a system is what it does

“The purpose of a system is what it does”- Stafford Beer The proximate motivation of AI driven companies like Claude, Open AI, and Google is disruption: Silicon Valley slang for bankrup…

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Just dropped a new music video, the first single from Ciaran Reddington, MC of Jazzy's former outfit 'Powerful Creative Minds'. Created on a literally zero budget, the video follows a Twitch streamers descent into madness.

https://garethstack.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/new-music-video-ciaran-the-world-its-sister/

New Music Video: Ciaran – The World & Its Sister

Absolute pleasure working with Ciaran Reddington (of Powerful Creative Minds) to create the video for his first single ‘The World and Its Sister’. Back in the pre-pandemic world, I made…

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