Brendan O'Connell

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Belfast, United Kingdom

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About Brendan

Started Script Writing in 1996. Worked in disability arts sector. 1 film shot edited 2004 broadcast on local television. 1 five part series shot produced and edited broadcast 2005. Currently working on a high concept script about Walter Benjamin.

Unique traits: An intuitive connection to the editing and directorial contexts and being able to tell which person I am working with I must delegate to.

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Georges Bataille one of the theorists of surrealism, assisted Benjamin in his role as librarian of the Bibliotech National in Paris. He hid Benjamin's work study files among the book stacks before the NAZI's reached Paris.

The Nightmare of history bears down on us but Benjamin though that the past combined with revolutionary knowledge can show what we must be done.

Baudelaire despised the technocracy of the photograph - he thought it would erase art. It is more than ironic that then that the place where the 'Impressionists' had their first exhibition was Nadar's photographic studio. The film explore this and other oddnesses.

Bertold Brecht refused to meet Benjamin at first but later became part of Brecht circle in Berlin and their time in exile.

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