Rachel Fitzgerald

Rachel Fitzgerald is an animator and filmmaker from Ireland. Her work explores storytelling through complex narratives with hand-drawn animation.

Rachel graduated from the National Film School in Dublin in 2019 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Animation. Her graduate film Bubbles received international recognition, screening at London Animation Film Festival, Global University Film Awards, Galway Film Fleadh, Animeteka and Cinanima.

Later that year, she was awarded “Best Emerging Irish Female Director” at IndieCork Film Festival.

Before coming to the Royal College of Art, Rachel worked as a freelance Animation Director.

Sponsors

Passion + Strange Beast Prize 2022

Kerry County Council, Artist Bursary

Having developed her practice through the Narrative Pathway during her time in the Royal College of Art, Rachel’s work explores the art of storytelling through complex narrative models. Much of her work investigates the human psyche, and through her animation, she explores the subtle hidden complexities of the human experience.

Rachel explores universal themes of morality through a more absurd and insular lens, walking the tightrope of realism and surrealism, the mundane and the heightened.

Her work situates itself in a space where comedy and pain live together.

Trailer

Nightpay, A short animated film exploring paranoia through the eyes of a petrol station employee who hates the night shift.

Credits

A film by Rachel Fitzgerald

Composer Grigor Abgaryan

Sound Designer Nicholas Faris

Sound Mix Joe Hirst

Voice Actor 1 (Kid) Cian Fitzgerald

Voice Actor 2 (End) Wes Doyle

Additional Animation Cliona Noonan

Additional Colour & Clean-up Cecilia Reeve