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DESCRIPTION:Irish filmmaker Joe Comerford brings his brand of sharp realist
  cinema to this 1988 drama about Reefer\, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-
 hiker Teresa\, a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. Nickna
 ming her “the model\,” Reefer takes Teresa back to the trawler where he liv
 es with friends Spider and Badger. Shadowy connections to Irish Republican 
 Army operations during “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland\, and a general l
 awlessness come to the fore as the makeshift family are forced to turn to c
 rime to make a living. Conflicts and challenges – from IRA hunger strikes t
 o homosexuality – are touched upon as Comerford’s sharp-eyed awareness for 
 political and social nuance remains keen throughout.\n\nJoe Comerford has w
 orked as an independent director in Ireland for over 50 years\, producing w
 ork that is distinguished by its cinematic subversion and social commentary
 \, with a trademark twinning of film narrative and visual-aural abstraction
 . His films focus on socially marginalized characters\, often in the midst 
 of crisis. Comerford is a member of Aosdana\, an autonomous affiliation of 
 artists\, established by Irish government in 1981 to honor artists whose wo
 rk had made an exceptional contribution to the creative arts in Ireland. In
  2023\, Comerford was presented with the Súil Eile at the Irish Embassy in 
 London for his outstanding contribution to Irish film over his long career.
  He is presently working on a feature film script evolving and expanding hi
 s lifelong interest in abstraction and realism in the development of film l
 anguage and storytelling.\n\nThe screening of “Reefer and the Model” (80 mi
 ns.) will be followed by discussion with Joe Comerford. It will be preceded
  at 6:00pm by a complimentary cold buffet supper and bar service\, and befo
 re that\, at 4:30pm\, by a talk on Comerford’s remarkable aunt\, Irish Repu
 blican revolutionary Máire Comerford and her 1924 fundraising mission to Am
 erica\, presented by Comerford’s wife and fellow filmmaker\, Hilary Dully\,
  editor of Máire Comerford’s previously unpublished memoir\, On Dangerous G
 round (Lilliput Press\, 2021).\n\nAll are welcome. RSVPs not required but a
 ppreciated: https://bit.ly/comerford-events-BC\n\nPresented by Boston Colle
 ge Libraries in collaboration with Boston College Irish Studies and support
  from the Eire Society of Boston and Tom and Trisha Carty.
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LOCATION:Burns Library
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SUMMARY:“Reefer and the Model” – film screening and discussion with Irish f
 ilmmaker Joe Comerford
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URL:https://events.bc.edu/event/reefer-and-the-model-film-screening-and-dis
 cussion-with-irish-filmmaker-joe-comerford
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