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THE ARTIST AND THE WALL OF DEATH (2023)

Run Time: 1:26:00
Producer: John Kelleher, Grant Keir,
Director: Maurice O’Brien
Key Cast: Stephen Skrynka

FILM MAKERS

Maurice O’Brien has been directing as well as producing critically-acclaimed, award-winning films for
15 years. His work has screened at film festivals around the world and as well as working with the
BBC for over a decade he has made films for Screen Ireland, Guardian Documentaries, RTE,
Screen Scotland, and Channel 4/Discovery. O’Brien is also one of the creative minds behind Dazzled By Daylight, The Artist and the Wall of Death, Hey Ronnie Reagan and Buffalo Dreams

SUMMARY

The unlikely story of a Glaswegian visual artist, Stephen Skrynka, and his dangerous life-long obsession with riding the ‘Wall of Death’.  Stephen dreams of transforming the traditional fairground motorbike attraction into an art form.  But he underestimates the difficulties of combining his artistic vision with the commercial instincts of his Irish ‘Petrolhead’ collaborators, Connie Kiernan and Michael Donohoe, the original true-life inspiration for the cherished Irish film, ‘Eat the Peach’.

After a devastating falling out, Stephen rashly decides to hand-build his own Wall, out of recycled wood, in a disused factory on the River Clyde in Glasgow.  In the midst of the Pandemic, facing a crisis of money and self-belief, Stephen’s dreams seem doomed.  But salvation arrives in the shape of unexpected comradeship, anonymous donations and the kindness of strangers. Stephen builds his Wall.  But can he ride it?

Worldwide release coming soon. Stay tuned!

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Website

Read The Guardian interview: Stephen Skrynka: ‘This is not some Jackass stunt’

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