Long Live my Happy Head
What would you do if you were told you had a dramatically life-shortening illness when you were 32 years old? Start making comic books about it of course! Well, that's what Gordon did anyway.
In Person
Irish Film Institute
Sun 8 Jan 2023, 3.30pm
Duration: 120 mins including post show discussion
Presented at First Fortnight in partnership with the Irish Film Institute
Gordon is a Scottish comic book artist with a big bushy beard, very expressive eyebrows – oh, and an inoperable, incurable brain tumour. By making autobiographical comics about his experience, he is able to communicate his thoughts and reactions to cancer in a medium and a language that is disarming, accessible and inviting.
Through intimately captured observational footage and video diary, stylised key interviews and animations created from Gordon’s comic illustrations, Long Live my Happy Head immerses the audience in Gordon’s world, and reveals how art, love and a sense of humour can soothe our deepest fears of mortality and losing the people we care most about.
This screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Austen McCowan.
