The 1994 festival Poster, designed by the Cork artist Kieran O'Connor, is a fantastical cartoon-like representation of a scene being filmed around a reconstructed version of the Shandon Bells & Tower of St Anne's Church in Shandon, Cork. The sky is…
The 1992 festival poster is a photographic montage of a gritty realist scene comprising a large silver film reel in the upper right corner against a concrete distressed-coloured grey/blue-black background tinted with reddish tones. The lower half of…
The 1990 festival poster is of a gritty realist scene comprising a large silver film reel against a concrete distressed-coloured grey/blue-black background. To the left of the film reel is a smaller spray-painted image of a man carrying a flag,…
The 1980 Cork Film Festival poster is a lithograph of the neck of a green champagne bottle against a black background. The bottle is shown spraying out five stripes of blank white film negatives in a celebratory fashion. The writing on this poster…
The 1980 festival programme cover has an image of a green long-neck bottle, ‘spraying’ out white film negatives, in a celebratory fashion against a black background. The writing is limited to a gothic style font on the label of the bottle itself. The…
The original 1980 programme is a slim soft card-bound issue measuring 26.5cm x 11cm. The bind is stapled and it has 82 numbered pages. The pdf version includes profiles of festival jury members Michael O’Herlihy (Ireland), Carmen Dillon (UK), Dagmar…
The 1986 festival poster depicts a young couple in a celebratory mode. The man, dressed in a blue denim shirt and wearing sunglasses, is blowing on a party whistle shaped as film reel negative. The woman, laughing and wearing blue-rimmed glasses, has…
The front of the 1999 festival programme depicts a colour-saturated image of a hand opening a door, giving us a glimpse into a cinema screening. To the right and length of the programme cover, we can see the back of the audience seated looking up at…
The 1997 festival poster is a hyper realised image of a large butterfly, with red and yellow wings, at the centre of the poster. White spots edge the wings and black lines are traced through the wingspan. Two white lights are projected onto the…
The 1997 festival programme cover depicts a hyper-realised image of a large butterfly, with red and yellow wings, at the centre of the page. White spots edge the wings and black lines are traced through the wingspan. Two white lights are projected…