Writer / Director / DOP. Based in Dublin, Ireland.
In honour of Pride, I m releasing a queer film we created for KinoD in 2024. Ellie and Alex are in love. They ve been together years. Sure it s not the most exciting relationship, but their friends always tell them they re the perfect couple. Tonight they ve decided to spice things up. They re meeting someone from the apps [ ]
My experimental short documentary Good Boys , is to feature in next weeks Bring Your Own FIlm (BYOF) Club night in Dublin. BYOF an initiative which began in January of this year, brings together shorts from emerging Dublin filmmakers, each introduced by the filmmakers themselves. I love intimate screenings like this one. Anything which promotes [ ]
My short Known to the Gardai has been selected for the renowned Healdsburg International Short Film Festival, in Sonoma County California. The cast and crew have all been invited to attend the festival. I couldn t be more exited to head stateside in September, as by then it will be seven years since I visited the [ ]
I recently attended the 7th edition of Caucasus Cinema, a bi-annual filmmaking residency in Georgia. The residency is organised by film and radiomakers Vladic Ravich and Sopho Chkheidze, and takes the form of a voluntaryist collective. Food and transport expenses are shared and attendees stay in donated accommodation in villages across Georgia. Each of the [ ]
My short collaboration with Ed Devane, What is Lost Can Never Be Found recently screened at Gallery X, as part of the Speak of the Devil exhibition. I was honoured to be featured alongside work from 40 Irish and International artists, including Morg Armeni and Andrii Strachov. Alas I was travelling for most of May [ ]
It s been quite a while since I made a comedy. So long in fact that it predates my ability to use a camera. Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s I performed as a standup comedian, and a member of the improv group Tickled By Freaks . I wrote a couple of absurd comic novels, [ ]
The Hardliners Writing Collective are a group of blind and visually impaired people who meet weekly to write and read their stories and poetry. The group is organised by the multimedia performance installation artist and curator Sinéad Keogh. This is a bonus scene from my documentary Sightless Cinema , available now on RTE Player.
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 first reported on, then helped sound engineer some of their first productions. On the 6th August, 11.15PM on RTE1 the [ ]
I ve been editing with DaVinci Resolve for quite a while, well over a decade in fact. It s a terrific piece of software and gets more capable and competitive with each regular release. However, as with all complex pieces of multi-functional software, DaVinci is prone to bugs. In the past Blackmagic Design have shown a reluctance [ ]
I d like to invite you to an evening of Georgian Films at the Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire on 2nd May 2025, 7PM 9PM! Visiting Georgia in late 2024, I was inspired by the spirit of Tbilisi and the ongoing struggle for democratic reform. In an effort to raise awareness of the current situation and to [ ]
Fifteen years after it became cool, I ve started posting snippets of my writing on social media. I ve been writing poetry and fiction for thirty-some years. Better to throw it up and cave to the beauty contest of social media than have most of it sit on a google drive. If you like your media social, [ ]
I ve cut together a new showreel of my live event work from the past few years. It s always hard to know what to emphasise with a showreel. On the one hand you want to put your best foot forward, showcasing a diversity of clients and approaches. On the other the industry watchword is specialisation. As [ ]
Last week I travelled to Tbilisi to teach a workshop on Storytelling Through Sound. I shot some footage and wrote a few words to try to get across the feeling on the ground, and the necessity of paying attention to this vital struggle against tyranny at the bleeding edge of Europe.
Proud to say Grotto , a short script of mine was a finalist for Best Short Screenplay in the Waterford International Film Festival. I headed down to the festival and caught some of the nominee screenings. For my money Portia A. Buckley s moving Clodagh , and Naomi Sheridan s timely short Kiki stood out from the Irish entries. [ ]
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 alongside Clodagh Emoe s brilliant Parados (2009), which has previously been exhibited at IMMA (alongside Neil Jordan) in 2013. The event is free, [ ]
Distraction is the one good side effect of procrastination. When you have a big, impossible project, there s nothing like a bunch of small attainable tasks to help avoid it. Right now, I m beginning the slow process of animation production on The Babysitter, a mixed media short I directed last year with the help of Shoot [ ]
One of the most enjoyable aspects of being a filmmaker, is being able to capture my trips. I always regret the visits I didn't document. In this case I glad I took the trouble, testing out the a new Blackmagic 6K Pro, and DaVinci's revamped film emulation in the process.
They say biographies should be succinct and to the point. The best thing apparently, is to write the story of your life so that it feels like everything lead up to where you are right now. My life though has been a meander. I have and continue to bounce all over the map from [ ]
Over the past few months I ve been attending the Dublin experimental film night Fanvid. The event, run Unit 44 / Kirkos, one of the last surviving independent art spaces in Dublin plays host to a diverse array of experimental films. Most eschew narrative, many are mixed media often created by fine art graduates or musicians. [ ]
Three or four years ago, my brother surprised me by having our families old mini-DV tapes scanned. In 1993 we got our hands on a camcorder, and a tiny bundle of tapes. Recorded over and over between 1993 and 1994 (when I broke the Sony s motor manually creating stop motion) these tapes held a treasure [ ]
I ve been updating my IMDB and just realised I never posted about Parvana , a project I shot while living in Berlin for the Afghan director Abbas Mohammad Ayyoubi. Abbas is an incredible guy, who escaped single handed from US occupied Afghanistan, and made his way over a number of years and countless adventures to Berlin. [ ]
I shot and edited this segment for Euronews, featuring journalist Shona Murray, alongside Eamon Murphy and Dan Dalton. Featuring an interview with the new Taoiseach Simon Harris on Ireland’s historic acknowledgement of the state of Palestine.
Recently picked up a new lens from the lovely people at Retro Foto House. I ve actually owned another copy of this lens, which somehow was lost or hidden in an attic during our many moves between Dublin and Berlin. It s a classic Russian lens, declicked and cine-modded by Roman at Retro. And what a lens, [ ]
I m reliably informed Trinity FM launched 25 years ago. Which must mean it s 21 years since I walked through the arch into front square. I remember the riotous menu of society stalls and how intimidated I was facing them. Toddling around a mad buffet of potential futures and wishing I knew anyone. As an ancient [ ]
The purpose of a system is what it does Stafford Beer If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.” Phil Zimmerman The proximate motivation of AI driven companies like Claude, Open AI, and Google is disruption: Silicon Valley slang for bankrupting incumbents by creating software platforms and skirting the law. Classically, this has played [ ]
“The law demands that we atoneWhen we take things we do not ownBut leaves the lords and ladies fineWho take things that are yours and mine.” “Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the spectre of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud [ ]
New music video for the lovely Leila Jane. Directed by myself, shot by the best cam-op in the business Ismael Diarra.
New work for Irish charity @goal_global, celebrating the nationwide #goalmile campaign. Shot around Ireland in @thephoenixpark , @ballyhale_shamrocks , @trinitycomp1 , and @naomh_conaill_gaa_club Ballymun sections shot by @izzysaurus.rex.9
I recently had the pleasure of shooting many of the Irish sections of the Al Jazeera programme The Listening Post . I haven t done enough ENG shooting in the past and it was a challenge to say the least, battling DaVinci Resolve s rendering glitches attempting to convert the UHD footage in time for broadcast. I shoot [ ]
Hey all, we re looking to collaborate with a talented animator to help create animated sections for our short film The Babysitter (produced by Shoot Cut Grade / Edge3X Studios). Principle photography was completed earlier this year, and we re looking for the right person bring on board, as part of our application for funding under the [ ]
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 a pair of videos for PCM (whose vocalist Jazzy has gone on to top Irish and UK charts alike). I ve always been impressed by the [ ]
I ve been working with the charity GOAL Global recently, to create videos for some of their fundraising events in Dublin. If you d like to donate to GOAL to help their relief efforts in Palestine you can do so here.
Some stills below from production of my latest short film, working title The Babysitter . The film tells the story of a little boy left in the care of a robot home assistant. It will be in post production for the next few months, adding animation elements. CREDITS Writer / Director Gareth Stack Jack [ ]
My latest film Intimacy , shot and edited during most recent Kino Dublin event, explores the tensions on set that arise between a controlling director and an inexperienced intimacy coordinator. I got my start in filmmaking at a Kino event in 2016, and this wonderful community today hosts events all over the world, where anyone can [ ]
The artist Constantin Montana and I are doing a performance in late January in Berlin. We ll be reading some short stories in a wonderful writers bar called Schankwirtschaft Laidak. All welcome. Schankwirtschaft Laidak, 22nd January, 7:30PM. Boddinstraße 42/43, 12053 Berlin.
The magazine Cassandra Voices have been kind enough to publish my short story Island State . They show midget porn in the Double Down Saloon. We drink Coronas and the house cocktail, Ass Juice. The money shot in midget porn comes after the action, when the burley stud zips up his little person partner and fucks [ ]
The days of blogspamming my podcast are over! Everybody wants to love you now has a dedicated host / website. We ve moved to Libsyn, a podcast host that s been making shows happen even longer than me. Always wanted to try them, and it s a vote of confidence in the show to put a few quid [ ]
Dildos, vibrators, cock rings, pocket pussies, do you use them, do you like them? is there such a thing as too big or too good? What have we tried? Why do women use them more than men? Is the shame around sex toys irrational? And how do they affect our bodies. We also chat about [ ]
We chat with special guest Ronan about the role drugs have in our sex life endogenous hormones, prescription drugs, and of course the wicked world of narcotics. How can they alter our experience of love and sex? What are the risks of abuse? Does the pill change who girls are attracted to? Does taking [ ]
In our most controversial conversation yet we address the thorny topic of age gaps. Are age gaps hot or just plain creepy, how much is too much, celebrity age gaps, what the research says, and of course we talk about our our own! Download: 9 Age Gaps Find us on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, [ ]
In this very special episode of Everybody Wants To Love You, we come to you from our den of iniquity, our very (un)marital bed. We answer the questions we ask our guests our funniest sexual encounters, our sexiest moments, and finally delve into our sexual ambitions. Download: 8 Bedroom Confessional Find us on: [ ]
Listeners tell us their sex education horror stories, we compare our sex educations in the 90s and 2000s, on the playground and in the classrooms, our parents reactions to our first relationships. Download: 7 Sex Education Find us on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Feedburner Meet us on: Instagram, Discord
We discuss our own squicks and icks, sturn ons and turn offs, the things that gross us out in bed, and what ick culture means for the world of sex and relationships. Download: 6 Squicks, Icks, Turn Ons and Turn Offs Find us on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Feedburner Meet us on: Instagram, Discord
This week talk movies what are the hottest moments on screen, which films accurately portray love and heartbreak, and how real life is nothing like the movies. Feat: Before Sunrise, Penelope Cruz’s hot rage and why James Spader is Hot Actually. Download: EP5 Love Lust on Screen Find us on: Apple [ ]
We chat with the fabulous Petunia about bisexuality, cuck queening, disability, stripping, anorgasmia and sex work. Download: Episode 4 Stripping Tales and O Woes Find us on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Feedburner Meet us on: Instagram, Discord
Everybody Wants To Love You is a show about sex, love and relationships. We overshare about everything from pulling to cucking, lust to love, therapy to teledildonics. Tune in every Tuesday for a new episode. Featuring interviews, commentary, confessions and laughs a plenty, this no holds barred chat will open your mind and tickle your [ ]
We discuss Pulling, hooking up, bringing someone home. Specifically how men and women differ in their approaches. The evolutionary impulses behind our sexual strategies. Clubbing. How we talk down competitors and why Anya Taylor Joy is probably not very interesting in bed. Download: EP3 A Personal History of Pulling. Find us on: Apple [ ]
Our guest is artist and Berlin flaneur Constantin Montana. We discuss The differences between gay life in Berlin and New York. How the internet changed hookup culture.Comparing our sexual educations.The effects of porn on kids.The death of subculturesDifferences between dating in gay and straight cultures The chat The glorious sluttiness of actorsMeeting the one . Download: Episode 2 [ ]
Everybody Wants to Love You is a new podcast about love, sex, and the things that get left unsaid. Hosted by former comedian Gareth Stack and one time actress Nicole O Connor, the show features interviews, listener problems and intimate uncensored discussions of sexuality in the age of chaos. Download: Everybody Wants To Love You [ ]
New video I shot and edited for Berlin based musician Mariama Jalloh is out now. Link in Bio. Director: MariamaProduced, mixed and mastered by Manuel SchlindweinShoot, cut, grade: Gareth StackMake Up: Larissa Hewan PauliHair: Lucia Binta LammertmannStyled by Kasapio Very special thanks to Nicole O Connor for help, and support and most of all Ay Wing and [ ]
