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AKA 2026 - Artists in Motion

on November 02, 2026

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A Shooting on Brandon - Italian Premiere - FLIGHT

The 7th October see A Shooting on Brandon screen at FLIGHT - Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova. I look forward to returning to this fantastic festival and catching up with old friends and hopefully make some new ones. "Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between..." - Ingmar Bergman, The magic lantern Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland

Robert Hartpole goes home.. - TV sculpture @ VISUAL, Carlow

Robert Hartpole Goes Home, 2025 8-channel video work across 12 screens, duration 19 minutes Single-channel video, duration 23 minutes "Robert Hartpole Goes Home is a newly-commissioned artwork by Robles and Higgins, sited both at VISUAL and CarlowCounty Museum beside the effigy of sixteenth-century soldier Robert Hartpole. Dubbed ‘The maintainer of rebels’, Hartpole was an English sheriff of Laois and Carlow, infamous for orchestrating the massacre of Irish chieftains and their families during supposed peace negotiations at Mullaghmast, Kildare in 1578. According to legend, a dying priest there laid a curse upon him and his descendants. His tomb effigy, rediscovered in marshland in Carlow in 1809, was decapitated in an act of posthumous rejection. The head was never recovered, and the effigy moved out of town for over two hundred years before its recent return to the county museum.Robles and Higgins’ multi-channel videos re-imagine there turn of Hartpole to t...

A Shooting on Brandon Wraps

June saw a premiere screening for cast, crew, family and friends for my new feature film A Shooting on Brandon. An epic film exploring a small hill. So many thanks yous and so many collaborators. A highly treasured and wonderful experience. To be remembered for ever. TRAILER Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. Special Thanks to The Watergate Theater, Kilkenny Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland

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