Occupation Film director | Books The Leviathan | |
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Born February 15, 1978 (age 39) ( 1978-02-15 ) Dublin, Ireland Nominations Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Movies The Last Days on Mars, BlinkyTM, Fifty Percent Grey, This Is A Test Similar Clive Dawson, Goran Kostić, Sydney James Bounds, Johnny Harris, Romola Garai Profiles | ||
Ruairí Robinson is an Irish film director and writer.
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He is known mainly for his science-fiction short films and animations, one of which, Fifty Percent Grey, was nominated for an Academy Award. Fifty Percent Grey was also included in the Animation Show of Shows. The Silent City concerns a group of soldiers wandering through a perilous post-apocalyptic wasteland; the cast includes actor Cillian Murphy. His short film BlinkyTM was released on March 20, 2011, and concerns a robot helper that turns murderous.
He signed on to direct a live action adaptation of Akira, but the project was cancelled after Robinson departed. In 2013, Robinson directed The Last Days on Mars, the adaptation of the science-fiction short story The Animators by Sydney J. Bounds. In early 2015 he directed the short film The Leviathan, which became a viral hit, spawning production of a full length version.
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