Born: Dublin, 1966

Jaki Irvine's work evolves from overheard conversations and casually observed human incidents. She interweaves these real events with fictitious narratives to produce haunting, understated films that set out to undermine a sense of a linear narrative.

Shot on Super-8 and presented here as a video projection, Eyelashes shows a man and a woman having a conversation at breakfast. In the accompanying voiceover, a heavily-accented female voice tells of a man's obsession with a woman's eyelashes. But the woman's face is not shown in close-up, and there is no certainty that her eyelashes are the object of desire being discussed. Instead the camera focuses on the man's twitching mannerisms.

The banality of the domestic scene, filmed with the unsteadiness of a home movie, works against the musical score - Thomas Oboe Lee's Morango, almost a Tango - and the narrator's tale of obsession.