Irene Buckley
NoMINATIONS 

That They May Face the Rising Sun

2023

Director: Pat Collins

Co-composed with Linda Buckley

Nothing Compares

2022

Director: Kathryn Ferguson

Co-composed with Linda Buckley

Nominated for Outstanding Original Score at the 16th Cinema Eye Honors 2023

Nominated for Best Original Score at the IFTA's 2023

Much Ado About Dying

2022

Director: Simon Chambers

Best directing Award International Competition at IDFA 2022

Metropolis

2021

Director: Fritz Lang

A live score for percussion and electronics at the Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork.

Commissioned by Cork International Film Festival and co-composed with Linda Buckley.

Five Letters To The Stranger Who Will Dissect My Brain

2018

Director. Oonagh Kearney

Awards:

Best Irish Short Film at Dublin International Film Festival 2019

Best Director of Irish Shorts at Cork Film Festival 2018

Nosferatu

2016

Director: Jean Epstein

Co-composer: Linda Buckley

Commissioned by Union Chapel, for Organ Reframed Festival 2016, a live score for viola, cello, organ and electronics with performances at Union Chapel London; St. FinBarre's Cathedral for Cork Film Festival; Skibbereen Arts Festival; SilentFilms/Live Music, Arts Brookfield, New York City and The German Irish Vampire Festival, Berlin (co-composer Gudrun Gut)

"It was an experience like nothing else, a cinematic and musical experience bound together as one, like Nosferatu and the victim. The organ lowered itsfangs into its audience. It was a symphony of horror."  

      James Catchpole, Fluid Radio

The Fall of the House of Usher 

2014

Director: Jean Epstein

Commissioned by the Cork French Film Festival, a live score for organ and

electronics with performances at St. Fin Barre's Cathedral for the Cork French 

Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival 2015.

The Swing

2014

Director: Damien Dunne

Awards:

Nominated for Best Original Music at Festival International du Film d'Aubagne, France 2015.

Awarded Best First Drama at Galway Film Fleadh, 2014.

Best Short Film at Carrousel international de film de Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, 2014

The Passion Of Joan of Arc

2012

Director: Carl Dreyer

Commissioned by the Cork French Film Festival, a live score for soprano, organ and

electronics with performances at St. Fin Barre's Cathedral for the Cork French 

Film Festival, Glasgow Cathedral for the Glasgow Film Festival and Union Chapel

London.

"Pure cinema magic...The haunting performance was a once in lifetimeexperience that send shivers up the spine and left the audience talking about itfor days afterwards" 

     Allan Hunter, Director of Glasgow Film Festival.


A Gesar Bard's Tale

2012

Director: Donagh Coleman

Co-composer: Linda Buckey

Awards:

Best Documentary at Montreal First People Festival 2014