The Ulysses Project – Bloomsday Film Screening

Directed by Laoisa Sexton and Trevor Murphy.

91 mins, Ireland, 2022, Digital

Followed by Q&A with Directors Laoisa Sexton and Trevor Murphy.

Following a sell-out screening during Blooms week 2024, the extraordinary, wild and irreverent film The Ulysses Project returns to the ICC’s big screen by popular demand to mark Bloomsday 2026!

 This bold, modern, reimagining of Ulysses unfolds through a rapid succession of over 75 actors, each bringing to life the characters encountered by Leopold Bloom on June 16th, 1904. Filmed entirely during the first pandemic lockdown, the project captures a remarkable collection of intimate and finely detailed performances.

The ensemble cast features John Turturro, Aidan Gillen, Olwen Fouéré, Patrick Bergin, Shane MacGowan, Paula Meehan, and Barry Ward.

” a compendium of intimate, minutely nuanced performances is surprisingly, deeply cinematic and as provocative as the book”  Irish Film Institute, Dublin.

‘A wildly experimental irreverent ramble through Dublin in a provocative modern re-telling of James Joyce Ulysses featuring over 85 international actors worldwide’. Irish Times

This film screening is being presented in partnership with ‘The Bloomsday Film Festival Dublin’. Thanks to the Festival’s Artistic Director Tommy Creagh. 

About The Directors:

Trevor Murphy is an Irish cinematographer and filmmaker, he was raised in Dublin. He has worked extensively in the camera department for the last 15 years, both in the United States and internationally and in Ireland, primarily working in film, long form TV drama, commercials and music videos, along with directing his own work. He has shot two features in Ireland Poster Boys and the upcoming Catch the Wind. He has shot many award winning short films, and recently won Best Cinematography Award for the Brinkerhoff poetry short film The Listeners with Freddie Fox.

Laoisa Sexton is an Irish actress, playwright and filmmaker. She studied drama in NYC and performed regularly on Off Broadway stages including the Irish Repertory Theater where she is a company member, and regional US prestigious theaters like The Guthrie and Studio Theater, DC. Film & TV appearances in Ireland include Red Rock for BBC. She wrote, directed and performed in the award winning short films; I didn’t..I wasn’t..I amn’t which screened at BFI and The Lucky Man which won Best Short and Best Script at the Bafta associated LOCO, London Comedy Film Festival. Her Screen Ireland short film I Can’t Go On recently won her the Best Director Award at Dublin Comedy Film Festival.