Alan Gilsenan
Directing · Director · Writer · Cinematography
Active 1988–present · Awards: European Film Award Special Mention
Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His documentaries, which range from robust investigation to essayistic reverie to sensitive observation, are distinguished by intellectual rigour and creative innovation,…
Filmography
The Yellow Bittern — DirectorWe Only Want the Earth (2026) — Director · WriterThe Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones (2026) — Director · CinematographyThe Irish Question (2024) — DirectorThe Days of Trees (2024) — Director · Writer · Director of PhotographyAn Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy (2023) — DirectorThe United Irishmen (2023) — DirectorThe Seven Ages of Noël Browne (2023) — DirectorPaul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici (2022) — DirectorGhosts of Baggotonia (2022) — Cinematography · DirectorThe Great Book of Ireland (2020) — DirectorThe Meeting (2018) — Writer · DirectorMeetings with Ivor (2017) — DirectorUnless (2016) — Director · WriterA Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators (2014) — DirectorEliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay (2013) — Writer · DirectorTimbuktu (2004) — DirectorThe Ghost of Roger Casement (2002) — DirectorZulu 9 (2001) — DirectorAll Souls' Day (1997) — DirectorThe Road to God Knows Where (1988) — Director