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Bog Communism

Part film essay part mock recruitment video, this micro short explores resistance to data centre expansion in Ireland via archive footage and Unreal Engine

  • Roisin Agnew
    Director
    The Ban
  • Rob Heppell
    CG Artist
    Laurence Lek, Hyperdub, Nike
  • felicita
    Producer and Musician
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Film Essay, Environmental, Comedy
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 22, 2026
  • Country of Origin:
    Ireland, United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    Ireland
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, CG
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9, 4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Roisin Agnew

Roisin Agnew is an Italian-Irish filmmaker and researcher.
She’s the director of The Ban, long-listed for a BAFTA and now featured on The New Yorker and AlJazeera. She’s currently in early production with her feature with BFI Doc Society. She's worked as a games writer for PlayStation. She’s a PhD student at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths and an Associate Lecturer at the London Film School and Ravensbourne University.

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Director Statement

Bog Communism is a term I began to use in relation to my PhD research into data centre expansion in Ireland and how this works with a colonial logic. Bog Communism refers to an indigenous form of resistance to tech imperialism through land rights, specifically how these related to the notion of wasteland. After writing an essay on this for eco-socialist journal The Breakdown the article was widely shared and I was commissioned to make a film on the subject by CCA Warsaw.