Conor Horgan Talk In LIT

We visited the LIT campus the other day for a talk given by Film Director and Photographer Conor Horgan. He began by talking about his interesting introduction into the Photography world. He continued to showed us some of his work and discussed the stories behind them. He had a very interesting theory whereby photography is recognising when you are in the right time and place and taking advantage of that opportunity and other opportunities that approach us. He spoke of his introduction into video making and how lost he felt at first as he leaped straight into the deep end. He went on to talk about how he got into advertising and what that experience was like for him and showed us one or two of the advertisements he made. 

We then watched his feature film "The Last Time" which I really enjoyed. I was the story of a woman who found out she may not have long to live, but through her journey she longed to be intimate with a man for one last time, but looks in all the wrong places. I enjoyed the film and admired all the subtle gestures involved that helped build the story.

We also were shown clips from his film "One Hundred Mornings". He told us of his experiences on set filming, the actors and how it all finally came together.

We watched a little piece he made entitled 'Happiness' I loved this piece as the topic being so simple it really makes you think and you feel you can be involved in the piece. I was nice to watched and certainly brought a smile to most us in the room. Below is a link to this video and Hogan's Vimeo page where most of his work is available for viewing.

http://vimeo.com/58105653

We finished up by viewing his piece entitled "Deep End Dance". This piece was incredible to watch and the dedication and work that Hogan described had went into the making of this piece was just inspirational.

All over I enjoyed the talk and found it inspiring. Having done so much Hogan is certainly the established artist he deserves to be.