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Villagers&#39; Conor O&#39;Brien goes out for a romantic&nbsp;dinner date, and offers his dinner partner a remarkable token of his affection, in Bob Gallagher&#39;s tragi-comic video for Fool.It&#39;s a surreal and grisly tale of unrequited love, told entirely from the perspective of O&#39;Brien&#39;s date - it was shot with the camera mounted on the director&#39;s head - and featuring a larege cast of fellow restaurant goers, it&#39;s expertly choreographed to tell the story in a single&nbsp;continuous shot.

Ireland

Bob Gallagher

Zlata Filipovic

Conor O'donovan

Jeff Doyle

Eleanor Bowman

Gav Reilly

Conor Fleming

Noelle Slacke

Roisín Condon

Michael Higgins

Enda O'conor

Conor O'brien, Stephen Tiernan, Marie Denham, Antonio Garcia Lopez, Heriberto Barragan, Bryan Quinn

John Hassay

Domino Recording Company

Villagers 'Fool' by Bob Gallagher

Villagers-'Fool'-by-Bob-Gallagher

Dublin-based director and storyteller supreme Bob Gallagher has created a charming video for Villagers&#39; Trick Of The Light, the first release from their forthcoming album The Art Of Pretending To Swim.A mysterious disheveled man wanders the streets at night and like a suited shaman, triggers an altered state of consciousness in everyone he meets. Or at least thinks that he does.It&#39;s a delightful confection - and is that Villagers&#39; Conor O&#39;Brien playing the disgruntled cinema kiosk worker, whisked into the air by our hero?&nbsp;Even when our hero&#39;s delusions are brutally exposed, it&#39;s still worth hanging on for the final seconds. Music videos rarely attain a sense&nbsp;of wistfulness, but Bob Gallagher has achieved it here.

Maggie Fagan

Joseph Ingersoll / Bob Gallagher

Paul O'connor

Susan Kenny, Roisin Condon, Katie Saurin

Shaun Ryan

Bryan Quinn, Conor O'brien, Maureen Butler, Jay Asolo, Dagmar Baar

John Moule

Domino

Villagers 'A Trick Of The Light' by Bob Gallagher

Villagers-'A-Trick-Of-The-Light'-by-Bob-Gallagher

Just as we reach dog show season, Bob Gallagher comes up with his own take on a Best In Show scenario for Irish indie rockers Pillow Queens.It&#39;s a tale of darling dogs, devoted owners, dodgy judges and dastardly deeds, leading to unfolding chaos. In his usual fashion, Gallagher nurtures excellent performances from an ensemble cast - including the dogs - resulting in a very entertaining, increasingly riotous accompaniment to the knockabout rock of the PQ&#39;s Favourite.

Sarah Corcoran

John Cutler

Any Other City

Pillow Queens 'Favourite' by Bob Gallagher

Pillow-Queens-'Favourite'-by-Bob-Gallagher

Bob Gallagher&#39;s video for Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker portrays Clarke in a surprising way - her mellifluous voice is characterised as the world&#39;s greatest cure for insomnia.In Gallagher&#39;s gently comedic tale for Chicago,&nbsp;Clarke sends everyone around her to sleep quicker than you can say &#39;Bing Crosby&#39;, to her consternation. But one man can see the potential in her surprising gift. Erstwhile floundering talent manager Winston Peck becomes determined to bring her unusual talent to a larger&nbsp;audience...&nbsp;

Allison Wheeland

Sarah Dunphy

Hannah Choy O'byrne

Madonna Mcnamee

Crooked Gentlemen

Richard O'Connor

Rough Trade Records

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker 'Chicago' by Bob Gallagher

Josienne-Clarke-And-Ben-Walker-'Chicago'-by-Bob-Gallagher

Bob Gallagher and Enter Shikari enter the fray of dystopian drama with a sharp, smart and punchy allegory on the lurking danger of&nbsp;mind control and sensory nullification for Live Outside.From the sterile pharmaceutical production line to the drug-enhanced escape through VR environments, frontman Rou Reynolds&nbsp;and his co-workers are having the time of the lives, until a darker reality beings to intrude.It&#39;s a familiar storyline, but&nbsp;is still compulsively watchable&nbsp;thanks to&nbsp;Gallagher&#39;s direction. He builds claustrophobic tension, shot through with dark humour,&nbsp;largely through two elements not largely dependent upon budget: character and editing.

United Kingdom

John McKeown

Evan Barry

Joey Ingersoll

Dan Roche

Lilla Nurie

Saileog O'halloran

Anna Rodgers

Sean Mayo

PIAS

Enter Shikari 'Live Outside' by Bob Gallagher

Enter-Skikari-'Live-Outside'-by-Bob-Gallagher

James Vincent McMorrow comes to the realisation that fascism has gone too damn far when his audience falls victim to its grasp in Bob Gallagher&#39;s video for One Thousand Times.What starts off as a normal-looking performance video quickly gets stranger as a fascist dictator and his SWAT team decide to storm the place, carry everybody&nbsp;off and have a nice time for themselves. The thing about this video is how scary it is in the current political climate, compared to how easily it could have been laughed off a few years ago.

Sarah Whitford

Susan Kenny

Niamh O'Malley

Rory Tinman

Anthony Donnelly

Ger Murphy

Rupert MacCarthy Morrogh

Philip Connolly

James Vincent McMorrow 'One Thousand Times' by Bob Gallagher

James Vincent McMorrow - One Thousand Times

Dublin-based director&nbsp;Bob Gallagher has made several videos for the Irish noise-rockers Girl Band, their intense sound providing an apt soundtrack to his strangely compelling, twisted&nbsp;dramas - like&nbsp;in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4SmyqO5DUU" target="_blank">Paul</a>, where a children&#39;s TV entertainer goes seriously off the rails. Their latest collaboration for In Plastic, is more of a Kafka-meets-1984&nbsp;setpiece: it&#39;s a border security checkpoint, at an unspecified time period, with&nbsp;the focus on a very anxious traveller in the line for the X-ray scanner, fearful of discovery of the the unknown contents of his suitcase.&nbsp;&nbsp;With his&nbsp;excellent&nbsp;use of an impressive supporting cast, and particularly with the&nbsp;editing, Gallagher extracts every drop of tension from this always-relevant&nbsp;scenario. And just as with the previous Girl Band videos, there&#39;s plenty of black&nbsp;humour in there too.&nbsp;

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