Feargal Ward

Feargal Ward is a filmmaker and artist from Ireland.
His practice is largely concerned with the hybrid-documentary form, where tropes and devices of narrative cinema are often appropriated or subverted in an attempt to facilitate the telling of greater truths.
His 2019 documentary film Tension Structures (with Adrian Duncan) premiered at IDFA 2019 before screening at HotDocs (Toronto) in 2020.
His feature documentary The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid (2017) premiered in the main competition at IDFA in 2017 and screened at festivals worldwide before being broadcast on German, Irish and Finnish television.
His debut feature documentary Yximalloo (co-directed with Tadhg O’Sullivan) premiered at FID Marseille where it won the Prix Premier.
His work as a cinematographer has been screened at festivals and institutions including Telluride, Venice, CPH:DOX and MoMA.