Eat Your Children

Eat Your Children

78 mins / 2015
/ co-directed by Treasa O’Brien & Mary Jane O’Leary

Speakers: Treasa O’Brien, Mary Jane O’Leary, Yash Sinoja and Lochlann Ó Cionnaith

Audience are invited to learn and sing a shanty song written by Mary Jane, called Decolonise Now.

“Eat Your Children is a tremendously timely and provocative film which explores traditions of resistance in Ireland. It is the personal and political response of two economic emigrants, Treasa O’Brien and Mary Jane O’Leary, to the climate of complacency and acceptance of austerity which they perceived upon their return home.

A road-trip takes them around the country meeting the engaged and disengaged – students, politicians, economists and activists – as they try to understand Ireland’s post-colonial identity crisis in the wake of the ‘Celtic Tiger’. At a time when Irish people are re-discovering the power of mass protest, here is a film which captures that energy.”

Sunniva O’Flynn, Head of Irish Film Programming, IFI

Eat Your Children premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival in 2015, and went on to screen in over 20 festivals, galleries, and alternative social spaces internationally.

Highlight events include Interference Archive, Brooklyn, New York; Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Greece; Belfast Film Festival, Occupy Queens’ Film and a memorable evening at Arus Na Gael, organised by Galway Feminist Collective.

Eat Your Children screens as part of Love, Rage & Solidarity, a solo exhibition by Treasa O’Brien.