BIO

Marion Bergin is an Irish filmmaker and artist with an expanded practice across documentary film, photography, and performance-led moving image. Her work is shaped by a deep connection to the natural world, guided by a sense of wonder, attentiveness, and responsibility toward the landscapes, species, and communities we live alongside. Rooted in place, ritual and lived experience, her practice explores marginalised cultures, land-based knowledge, and the quiet politics of care, belief, belonging, and stewardship.

Coming to film through a long career in visual culture and design, her work balances an immersive cinematic aesthetic with a strong ethical and relational approach.

 

She builds trust with her subjects over time, allowing meaning to emerge through gesture, atmosphere and presence as much as through narrative.

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Across her body of work, Bergin returns to recurring themes of water, horses, and the natural world as sites of memory, myth, craft and spiritual connection. These motifs become ways of exploring ancestry, ecology, interdependence, and the fragile, often poetic relationship between human life and

the more-than-human world.

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Her debut short documentary Saoirse, exploring the disappearance of Dublin’s inner-city horse culture, premiered on Nowness and went on to screen internationally, including on RTÉ Player and on the IPUT screen installed on the front lawn of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). The film received multiple awards and significant critical attention with Una Mullally calling it 'stunningly beautiful' in The Irish Times.

 

Her subsequent work, SWIMirl, an immersive film installation created in collaboration with Robert Bourke Architects for the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, has been presented in both in community, exhibition and architectural contexts,  More recently, Si Si Si, a short exploring ritual through the tradition of visiting holy wells, screened at the Royal Hibernian Academy.

 

Alongside her practice, Bergin has delivered talks and participated in public conversations on collaborative practice, photography as process, and the craft of filmmaking. She has hosted workshops for the Design and Craft Council of Ireland, facilitated short film events, and contributed to showings with organisations such as Island Photographers.

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Based between Dublin and continental Europe, she works independently and collaboratively, moving fluidly between fine art contexts and broadcast documentary, with an interest in projects that sit at the intersection of culture, ecology, and embodied knowledge.