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I wrote a blog post for Architecture Ireland Magazine on the Sculpture Oisín Kelly.

http://architectureireland.ie/oisin-kelly-four-dublin-sculptures

I was the Video Designer on this new multi-media work created by Amanda Coogan, which was Co-commissioned by British Council and Belfast International Arts Festival and opened in the MAC, Belfast. 

I worked with artist Fergal McCarthy on his new exhibition at the VISUAL gallery in Carlow. I documented Fergal's trip from Dublin to Carlow in a boat he made from junk he pulled out of the Canal.

I was the photographer for this new Amanda Coogan book 'I'll sing you a song from around the town' which features my photographs throughtout her six week long show in Dublin's RHA gallery.  

Available from the RHA Gallery.

This is a video I made documenting a photo shoot for a new piece from Joseph Walsh Studio.

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I made this video documenting the construction of the project Beyond Pebbledash. The project is on display in Collins Barracks until January 2015 with the video on display in the main entrance of the Museum. 

I was commisioned to make a short documentary with Randal Hodkinson for a recent City of Culture exhibition in Limerick.

Max is an art historian.

He has a special interest in architecture of all periods, but his true passion is the ‘Amsterdam School’ architecture of the 1900s.

On a late summer afternoon, we went on a cycle with Max along the characteristic Amsterdam School buildings. We learned how – over a century ago – an insurgent group of young architects with a vision on functionality and style and an urge to shake up the status quo, came to design the social housing projects that bring in millions of tourist to Amsterdam each year.

Open House Limerick commissioned me to make a video looking at their theme 'Places + Spaces'. I decided to make a timelapse video around the city looking to find different angles and shots that highlighted some of the city's built enviroment.

This is the first in a series of five videos myself and Jason Butler are making with the aim of promoting cycling in Dublin. The series is commissioned by Dublin Cycling Campaign and funded by Dublin City Council.

Job Cohen is a Dutch politician.

From 2001 - 2010, he was the mayor of Amsterdam, and its citizens endearingly call him 'Job'. Job became the first public official to wed same-sex couples. Time Magazine awarded him the title "European Hero" in 2005, for his inclusive approach towards ethnic minorities in the city.

Job prefers to cycle to meetings; and we got to cycle along for a while and have a chat with him.

Amanda Coogan is a performance artist, living in Dublin.

On a windy morning, we went for a cycle with Amanda to Bull Island. We talked about how she grew up as a child of deaf parents, how sign language ultimately influenced her choice to become a performance artist, and where she finds inspiration for her work.

For more on Amanda, visit her website.

The above video has English subtitles available for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, just click the ‘CC’ button on the video player.

Cycling with... recently went on a trip to Amsterdam, in this the first of our films from there we caught up with a recently arrived resident of the city and got her impressions of life in the cycling capital, here's Cycling with Meredith!

Ellen Rowley is an Architectural Historian who lives with her family in Ballybough, Dublin.

We went for a cycle with Ellen and looked at the architectural heritage around parts of Dublin that often go ignored, the architecture of the 20th Century and her special interest the social housing schemes by the former prolific city architect Herbert Simms.

Ellen recently compiled a book of essays on Irish Architecture "i.e. Patterns of Thought".

My video piece 'A Camera Obscura on the Liffey Quays' has a couple of screenings coming up. Its been selected as one of 15 works selected out of 150 submissions for the Pxel Pops festival which runs in both Wales and Columbia. The theme of this years festival is Living Street. The works are inspired by, highlighting or set on the street.

A few years ago I made a documentary about the building Liberty Hall. At the time I regretted not being able to include in the documentary the story of Oisín Kelly's sculpture 'Two Working Men'. The sculpture was designed and due to go outside Liberty Hall in Dublin but due to some political interference it ended up outside Cork County Hall where they have since become known as Cha & Miah.

Myself and Michael Ryan made this piece by blacking out the window of a room in my flat and then making a small hole in the blackout, this turned the room into a big camera. We set up a stills camera to take a 4 second exposure every 5 seconds. After we put the stills together into a time lapse video.

The audio was composed by Mike Glennon from The 202s - facebook.com/the202s

This is the first in a new series of 'Cycling with' videos made by myself (Paddy Cahill) and Philip De Roos and edited by Michael Ryan.

Back on a cold day in March we went for a cycle with Anne Bedos.

My film 'Yellow', a collabration with Amanda Coogan will be screened at the Limerick City Gallery of Art from next Thursday the 22nd of March until the 29th of April 2012.

The film is four hours but will be on a continous loop so the audience are free to come and go.

More on Yellow here

The film 'Yellow' that I made with Amanda Coogan gets its first screening at the Dublin Film Festival. You can buy tickets at the JDIFF website and see our Yellow Blog for more info and details.

Myself and Philip De Roos made this video for the Dublin Cycling Campaign. The Campaign wanted a video they could use for facebook and their website to let people know what they do and encourage them to get involved. The basic information is fairly boring so myself and Philip looked at how we could get it across in a fun way, we decided on getting members of the campaign out to deliver the information in a group and on a bike! I think the video works in the sense that it portrays the Campaign as a fun group of diverse people.

I just finished making a half hour video with Architectural Critic Shane O'Toole. The video is for a retrospective exhibition of Irish Architecture in the M Muesum in Leuven.

A lot of the exhibition panels in the exhibition tend to be heavy with architectural drawings which are not always easily read by non architects, so my intention with the video is that it would act as an introduction to each building and hopefully guide the viewer back to the panels for a closer view.

Myself and filmmaker Adam Bristow have been documenting the progress of the Slow Architecture exhibition as it makes its way on a barge along the Grand Canal. We have put together a selection of the footage which will screen at the Dublin launch of the exhibition at the Waterways Ireland centre on Grand Canal Quay, Friday the October 29th.

You can get more info on the exhibition at:
http://www.slowarchitecture.ie/

PLACE is the Architecture and Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland. They have a blog and recently featured me:
http://placeni.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-place-paddy-cahill.html

Altered Images opens at IMMA on the 17th of June and runs until the 15th of August. Altered Images is an exhibition of art works with an Accessible, interactive and inclusive ethos, the exhibition aims to stimulate engagement with the visual arts for the general public and particularly for disabled people. As part of the exhibition I shot a series of videos for Artist Amanda Coogan.

Myself and a couple other have organised the Filmmakersnetwork Fringe Film Festival which will take place on March 6th

More to be announced soon at:
http://www.filmmakersnetwork.ie/dff/

Ease My Mind was nominated for an Irish Music Television Video Award. The awards will take place in the Sugar Club on Friday, November 27th 2009.

Tom Mathews, Waiting for Goldfish will be screened at the Cork Film Festival on Friday November 6th.

It has got a good run of screenings recently including the Galway Film Fleadh and Stranger Than Fiction at the IFI.

Playhouse was a fantastic project that turned Liberty Hall into a giant screen that screened short animations submitted by the public, you can see a video of it here.

The above image is of Des Rea O'Kelly (Architect of Liberty Hall) enjoying the display.

Liberty Hall will be broadcast by RTE 1 at 20:30 on Monday the 11th of May 2009, it will be available on the RTE Player for 3 weeks after.

I wrote this 'Building of the Month' Article for the 20th Century Society in the UK, it was great to have Liberty Hall covered by such a promenent organisation:
The Twentieth Century Society - Building of the Month for July & August.