FILM DEATHS

2010

‘Film Deaths’ is a photographic record of all the screen deaths I viewed in a total of 58 films
over a period of 8 weeks.

There are a total of 117 deaths recorded.

Of these 117 deaths

78 were homicidal: –
35 gunshot wounds, 5 bludgeonings, 5 stabbings, 4 tortures, 2 throats slit, 2 falls, 2
vehicle collisions, 1 beating, 1 drowning, 1 assassination, 1 suffocation, 1 strangulation, 1
poisoning, & 5 unknown causes.

28 were as a result of war or battles

10 were accidental: –
3 drownings, 2 overdoses, 1 fall, 1 blow, 1 poisoning, 1 gunshot wound & 1 trampling.

8 were suicidal: –
2 gunshot wounds, 1 starvation, 1 hanging, 1 poisoning, 1 self immolation, 1 slit wrists, 1
vehicle collision.

5 were natural: –
3 old age, 1 heart disease, 1 illness.

Exhibted at

PhotoIreland ‘New Irish Works’ Part of the main exhibition at the annual Photo Ireland Festival in July 2013, Dublin, Limerick & Cork.