James Joyce

Writing

James Joyce

Born 1882-02-02 · Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the twentieth century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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Based on James Joyce’s play which follows four players and two couples, Richard Rowan, a writer and his “common-law wife” Bertha, and Robert Hand with his cousin and previous lover Beatrice, both old friends of the previous couple.

Exiles

1973

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Dublin, 1912: A young woman, Eveline, of about nineteen years of age sits by her window, waiting to leave home.

Eveline

1968

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The original Dublin heist story. Based on the short story by James Joyce.

Two Gallants

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The Sisters is an adaptation of the first short story in James Joyce's collected works, Dubliners. Set in 1915 Ireland, it tells the story of a young boy, who reflects upon his time with friend and mentor, Father Flynn, while coming to terms with the Priest's death. As he listens to the conversations of the adults around him and thinks back on his own time with the Father, the boy begins to come to a new understanding about his friend and possibly about himself, as he is confronted with questions of faith, loss and new beginnings.

James Joyce's The Sisters

2017

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After a priest dies, the young boy he befriended struggles to know how to grieve in a world of suspicion. James Joyce's The Sisters, part of our 52 films in 52 weeks project, completed in 2013. This film was adapted from James Joyce's short story The Sisters, part of his Dubliners collection. All of the 52 films in 52 weeks were produced in Arizona by Running Wild Films and 5J Media. This short features a local cast of actors including Mark DeBoer, Michelle Allen, Ron Foltz, Anne Gentry, Helen Sanger Pierce, Noah Lanouette, and John Miller.

James Joyce's The Sisters

2014

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This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collection held in the National Library. The photos illustrate the Dublin of 1904 which served as a backdrop to James Joyce’s Ulysses. The film traces Joyce’s childhood and adolescence, his meeting with Nora Barnacle on June 10th, 1904, and the highways and byways which Leopold Bloom wandered through on June 16th, 1904. The music in the film references some of Joyce’s favourite songs, many of which appear in Ulysses.

Faithful Departed

1968

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Based on the story "Araby" from the collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce.

Araby

1999

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The eleventh episode “Sirens” of the novel Ulysses by Irish author James Joyce, is readen by the voice of a machine. In this film, I used photographs I took before 2020 to imitate the sounds and voices described in the text. In the end, the dance of the manipulated body with animation comforted the anxious body that had locked itself in a room.

RotAte Shika

2021

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In her Berlin apartment, where the S-Bahn and long-distance trains pass by, the actress Edith Clever reads Molly Bloom’s monologue from James Joyce’s “Ulysses”.

Edith Clever liest Joyce

1987

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One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.

Bloomsday

1964