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Homemade Cinema

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Welcome

A wild world of in-person animation workshops for kids - happening across Ireland and in your kitchen too.. Make movies with banana skins, snails, and upside-down ideas. No fancy gadgets needed, just curiosity and crayons.

Our courses are run by artists and educators who believe learning should be a shared experience that is playful, imaginative, and confidence building.

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What we're about

Learning by Doing (and Laughing)
  • Everyone listens. Everyone teaches.
  • We believe in learning by doing - discovering, messing, singing, sniffing, slipping up, and starting again, together.
Creative Education Through Play
  • We make weird patterns and find new ways of seeing.
  • We follow banana skins, maths equations, and the sound of our own ideas.
  • No lectures - just experiments.
  • No experts - just explorers.
Art as a Tool for Change
  • We take art seriously, but never solemnly. It’s a wild tool for change and a strange spark for empathy.
  • We believe in creative education that builds confidence and curiosity.
  • A film isn’t finished until someone else sees it and says, “Oh!”
We Lead With Fun
  • Fun isn’t an extra. It’s where learning begins.
→ Explore our core values here

Cinema of Difference

Not Your Regular Flicks
  • This isn’t your usual cinema.
  • It wriggles sideways, grins awkwardly, and refuses to sit still.
Cinema That Breaks the Rules
  • These films are come from voice and minds rarely heard—they could be from any background, or orientation, or neurodiverse.
  • They play backwards, jump scenes, and swap sound for colour.
  • Allergic to Hollywood rules, they break things just to see what happens.
Cinema of Difference
  • The cameras tilt. The stories squirm. The endings don’t wrap up neatly.
  • This is experimental, inclusive cinema that growls and dances and asks questions even the filmmakers can’t answer.
  • We call it a cinema of difference, because sameness is a snore.
  • It’s messy. Strange. Full of sparks - and very much alive.
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