Tin City
(2025, 20mins, Arts Council)In a remote forest in north-west Germany, an urban combat facility is used to train British soldiers before deployment in Northern Ireland. A spokesperson for the Irish underground terrorist organisation - the IRA - explains their response. Festival screenings include the Berlinale (Forum Expanded), Cinéma du Réel, Dokufest Kosovo, Karlovy Vary, and Festival dei Popoli, where it won the International Discoveries Competition. view +
The Lonely Battle Of Thomas Reid
(2017, 79 mins, Irish Film Board / NDR)A feature-length hybrid documentary about an isolated farmer who finds his way of life threatened as forces conspire to remove him from his lands. World Premiere in the main competition at IDFA. Other festival selections included Hot Docs, Sheffield DocFest, Zagrebdox, Documenta Madrid, Munich DokFest and Moscow International Film Festival. Winner of best Irish film at ADIFF 2018, best documentary at the London Irish film awards and winner of the 2020 IFTA for best feature documentary. Broadcast on German (NDR/ARD), Irish (RTE) and Finnish (YLE) television. view +
Ivanko the Bear's Child
(2024, 25 mins, The Arts Council)Co-directed with Jonathan Sammon. Amongst the abandoned ruins of the Red Army’s former headquarters outside Berlin, a fairytale about the time of Russian rule in the East German State unfolds. Festival Screenings: Recontres Internationales Paris / Berlin (2025) Cork International Film Festival (2024) view +
Tension Structures
(2019, 58 mins, Reel Art / The Arts Council / Centre Pompidou)Co-directed with Adrian Duncan. An unnamed engineer who has abandoned his profession undertakes a rail trip that brings him from the site of a long-demolished bridge in a quiet Bavarian town to a giant cloud made of fabric in Paris. Part homage, part lament; 'Tension Structures' is an unconventional and meditative report on the structural and social forces ripping through a continent on the brink of fracture and change. IDFA 2019 / HotDocs 2020 / RIDM 2020 view +
Lowland
(2022, 22 mins, The Arts Council)Co-directed with Adrian Duncan. A man travels through a vast palace in search of a sublime landscape from his past. This landscape, he soon realises, has disappeared beneath the ravages and scars of decades of extraction. Winner of 'Best director / Irish Short / Cork International Film Festival* view +
Memory Room
(2018, 22 mins, The Arts Council)co-directed with Adrian Duncan. An experimental art film retracing the steps of a forester sent to the Arctic Circle to procure poles for post-war electrification projects in Europe. World Premiere at IDFA 2018. Selected as part of EVA International Art biennial 2018. Subsequent festival screenings at Trento Film Festival in Italy, DocFest Ireland (Belfast) and Dokufest (Kosovo). view +
Day Of The Lords
(2019, 5 mins, New Order / Warner Music)Co-directed with Adrian Duncan. Joy Division's landmark 1979 album Unknown Pleasures reinterpreted by 10 directors for the record's 40th anniversary. view +
Yximalloo
(2014, 75 mins, Irish Film Board)Co-directed with Tadhg O'Sullivan. Documentary following a Japanese outsider artist named Yximalloo as he falls in and out of love with his life, his music and his partner in Dublin, New York and Tokyo. Yximalloo premiered at FID Marseille in 2014 where it won the Prix Premier prize. Subsequent film festival screenings include New Horizons Film Festival (Wroclav, Poland), the 43rd Festival de Nouveau Cinema (Montreal, Canada), the 59th Cork Film Festival and Olhar de Cinema, Brazil. view +
The Great Wall
(2015, 75mins, Reel Art/The Arts Council)Directed by Tadhg O'Sullivan / Filmed by Feargal Ward. A feature documentary exploring European borders and power through the short story The Building of the Great Wall of China by Franz Kafka
The Great Wall premiered at CPH:DOX Copenhagen before screening at MOMA New York as part of Documentary Fortnight . Subsequent festival screenings included DOCSS Sardinia (Best Film Award), Docpoint Helsinki, San Fransisco DocFest, Open City Documentary Festival (London) and FID Marseille 2016. view +
This Land 1970-1979
(2013, 13 minutes)This Land is a single channel video piece that was screened in the Joinery Gallery, Dublin as part of the show The Land with artist Adrian Duncan in September 2013 and as part of Culture Night 2013. Through (re)appropriation of archive, this film explores the narratives and ideas, values and ideologies projected onto the archive by the State broadcaster, and how these representations may influence our sense of shared collective memory. view +
Quarantine
(2012, 15 mins, Irish Film Board / Reality Bites)Co-directed with Tadhg O'Sullivan. An intimate portrait of one woman's solitary time with illness, fate and faith. It received a special mention at the 56th Cork Film Festival and was broadcast by RTE in 2014. view +
No Sound
(2011, 3mins 40secs)Music Video for Thread Pulls, directed by Feargal Ward view +
Boxing
(2008, 22 mins)Co-directed with Tadhg O'Sullivan. A poetic portrait of an inner city Dublin boxing club, the characters who frequent it and the area surrounding it. An uncommissioned, self-funded work, Boxing was shot over several months and combines observational strands, staged elements and still photographs to create a study of masculinity and the city. view +
About
Feargal Ward's award-winning work has been screened, exhibited and broadcast worldwide. He also collaborates with other filmmakers and artists on projects of shared interest. As a cinematographer, his work has been showcased internationally at festivals, broadcasters, and institutions, including Telluride, Venice, CPH:DOX, Arte, Channel 4, the ICA and MoMA.
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