Carceral Jigs. 2025
Video installation

Carceral Jigs. 2025
Video Installation.
4K
Full Running Time - 27mins 32 loop
Viewing copy on request
info@eoghanryan.ie

Installation views- Courtesy of EVA International, 2025

Carceral Jigs (2025) excavates how the re-use of architectures of containment, for example, those outsourced by the Irish state to facilitate direct provision, often complicates and confuses nationalist identification. The film invites viewers to consider how control is choreographed and performed through culture, policy, media, and the built environment and how this spectacle of belonging is continually maintained and malformed by its systematic denial. Children’s television tropes, scenes of musical rehearsal, 3D puppetry, and linguistic tongue twisters are traced across anti-migration protests in Ireland and talking head documentary footage of activist Lucky Khambule, to expose mutations, contradictions, and shifting rhythms within Irish nationalism today.


Credits. 
Production- Erratas Film
3D- Erratas

Camera assistance (Holiday camp)- Leah Crabé
Camera (Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann) - Helio León
Sound Recording (Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann) - John Lyons
Voice-work - Milly Burke Cunningham
Color Grading - Michael Higgins
Sound Mix and Mastering - Killian FitzGerald

Musicians
Liana Glynn
Cormac Ó hAodha
Maeve McCann
Caty Cleary
Daragh Ó Duibhir Baoill

Commissioned by EVA International 2025.
Supported by Mondriaan Fonds Project Grant and DLRCoCo

With thanks to Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Ireland and Lucky Khambule at MASI Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland.