Our debut feature, Extra Ordinary, starring Maeve Higgins and Will Forte, premiered in competition at SXSW and went on to win loads of awards and thankfully won many hearts and minds. Especially ours. Making it changed our brains and lives.

We have also been developing a TV show based in the Extra Ordinary world, Natasha Lyonne & Maya Rudolph are among the producers.

You can stream it where you stream things from, or ask us for a screener.

A Lego Dinosaur chases screaming family through the burbs in this fun commercial for their Jurassic World Lego series. A total blast to be working directly for the LEGO agency in Boston, but shooting with our usual crew in Dublin, Ireland. It also meant we could handily cycle to set each day. And we got some free Lego.

Client: Lego (Boston)

We call them Frosties in Ireland, but we still agreed to make this commercial. A werewolf, weird space shit, loads of practical effects and Tony the Tiger. Gr-eaaatttttt fun to make with a great crew.

A dad wins the lottery and gets the family some new stuff. Epic fun making this, all shot all over Majorca and we got to go a bit Sergio Leone.

We made an absolute shitload of these very short StubHub commercials over a few days in Vancouver. It was fun. Here is a little compilation of some of them. Many more on request.

A 60 second commercial for the world’s first global Scavenger hunt made for Oreo. Apparently it worked too shitloads of people actually got the app and did this whole Quest thing. The bit with the balls and big rock rolling down the hill we added to try making a homage to the amazing Buster Keaton in a chase scene from his feature "Seven Chances" (1925), and the kind agency let us go for it even though it's in the cut for about 3 seconds.

Wells Fargo  "It's the most giving -est time of the year" and it's true, we gave them this festive match cut fun commercial for their Holiday charity and they gave us the chance to have a go at doing the Bjork 'oh so quiet' up to the sky in one take Busby Berkeley shot.

A golden oldie, one of our favourites, we had lots of freedom and great creatives (Mark Shanley & Paddy Treacy) which made for lots of visual japes and capers. We took the in camera match cut idea to the extreme and wanted folk to notice something different every time

True Story: We both spent a summer working in a school Uniform Factory in San Francisco in the late 1990’s, and based the ‘measuring the guy for a suit’ scene on that. So this in some ways is some of our most personal work. 

Agency: DDFH&B (&R.I.P)
Art Director: Mark Shanley
Copywriter: Paddy Treacy

We pitched a bunch of colourful and fun scenarios in this one for EBS. They thankfully went for it. Kicking pots, a wizard, an idiot in space, babies in an office, jelly brain = Mortgage Master!

Closest we have gotten to making our Zombie movie so far. On the shoot the stunt zombie Suckers smashed two windscreens and broke 2 cars and did a lot of mouth bleeding, especially Gumsy the bleeding clown who must have had some kind of gingivitis problem.

Agency: Arnold
Creatives: Josh Tetrault & Bill Girouard
 

We love Ray Harryhausen, and a while back found a series of fairytales that he animated in the 1940′s using film stock he had acquired cheaply from the American army after the war. The themes of this song strangely brought these back to mind. So basically we acquired a number of the fairytale stories and re-edited them to the track so we had a strange narrative set in this animated fairytale world – a place inhabited by all the classic characters from Little Miss Muffet to Red Riding Hood. Taking the re-edited vintage animations, we then reanimated over these beautiful old stop-motion films, adding some ‘reality’ and some humour, so they lost that innocent feeling and meaning they once had.

From a series of commercials for the Irish National Lottery. Shot on Location in Dublin & the Bahamas. 

Agency: DDFH&B
Art Director: Mark Shanley
Copywriter: Paddy Treacy

National Lottery: Missing

The first commercial in a campaign, a bunch of people go missing from work and life. Somebody maybe even abandoned their child? Spoiler: Turns out they are off the the Bahamas all paid for by their lottery winning pal.

Later commercials in the series explore their further adventures on holiday, which we shot in the Bahamas.

Avoiding the frequent ‘drone porn’  ( maybe we should call it Prone*) edited with a slow motion horse running on a beach, we have seen in many tourist commercials, we were delighted to gently shake up the genre just a little. We wanted to highlight a few of the stories behind some of the less well known spots to visit in ireland . 

*We are 'prone' some tasteful drone porn. 

Agency: Rothco, Dublin
Art Director: Stephen Rogers
Copywriter: Shane O'Brien
Music: Villagers

D.A.D.D.Y intercoursed with Mother (London) to create these classics. A series of educational films for the BBAB (British Biscuit Advisory Board) promoting biscuit safety. We made a bunch. Here are the first four. They played during primetime Coronation Street in the UK which is a bigger deal than a superbowl commercial to us.
 

Director's note: The BBAB theme tune actually consists of the notes B, B, A, and B. Now listen again.

We made a smokey floaty cloud, found a guru guy, made a fluffy chariot with built in flashing lightning, had actors ride giant green sausages,  turned on some wind machines, used a lot of cotton wool balls, and when we mushed it all together and it ended up a bit like this...

Agency: The Martin Agency
DOP: Darran Tiernan

This is the first of two commercials we made for Belvita with the lovely Droga5. We filmed in New Orleans, met some great people including a Voodoo psychic called Phil who told us to be very careful while Skydiving and/or in Greece and that we are Lactose intolerant.

Agency: Droga5
Art Director: Devon Hong
Copywriter: Tara Lawall
Executive Creative Director: Kevin Brady
Producer: Anders Hedberg
Production: Fieldtrip / 1stAveMachine
Music: Search Party
Lead Actress: Katie Malia

Defy The Sun. A series of commercials we directed for Banana Boat for Men - JWT, New York. We legged it to Palm Springs to bring the heat for these helpful films for hot men. We just decided right now we will make any commercial for anything or any brand that has the word ‘BANANA’ in the title .

Agency: JWT, NY
Art Director: Billy Faraut
Copywriter: Garth Horn
DOP: Darran Tiernan
Production: Fieldtrip / 1stAveMachine
 

We directed this commercial for Gogurt, through Saatchi & Saatchi, New York. Shot in Mexico in late 2014. We enjoyed a bit too much 'making up' the character of Swordfish Nose, we sent the Agency shit loads of character ideas and totally unnecessary backstories here are a few (please see under commercial).

Directors Note: We got to try on an animatronic Penis during the making of this project. DM us for pics.

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, NYC
Copywriter: Adam Kline
Art Director: Justin Roth 

"A breakthrough in panda literature"
Noel Fielding

Here is a book Mike co-authored with Panda experts, David O' Doherty and Claudia O' Doherty. It is called 100 Facts about Pandas and contains exactly 100 facts about Pandas.  Here is what some the intelligentsia and some of the hoi polloi had to say about it:

"There is nothing my panda and I enjoy more than reading 100 Facts About Pandas"
Jemaine Clement

"Clearly a vital addition to any library"
Creative Review

"100 Facts about Pandas is very probably a book you need to glance through at least twice"
BookMunch

Mike went on to make 100 Facts about Sharks the second book in this extremely noteworthy series.

Below are two films we made to advertise the books:

Our first short film, all shot in one nightmarish day, yikes. 

DADDY’s love child Mr Foley wakes up in hospital with a group of sound artists soundtracking his life. This award winning short film and it’s been doing the festival circuit for ages, still going years later. It even won a bunch of big prizes! When it went online it went crazy and was picked up by one of our favourite sites Short Of The Week. In the days since then it has been watched by over 235 thousand people and counting. We are chuffed to bits, it featured as a staff pick on the homepage of Vimeo and many, many other blogs n’ ting. If you watched it – wahoo to you. If you haven’t checked it out you better do so now before the file gets worn out, what? Sure, it’s just over 4 mins long. 

He even has his own site too at mrfoley.com.

This one won a bunch of awards, became a sort of festive TV tradition and ran every December in Ireland for 10 years. Lots of Irish folk told us this commercial means Christmas for them so, well… that is nice. Even though we made it in July. 

Agency: Publicis, Dublin
Art Director: Austin Richards
Copywriter: Kris Clarkin

A juicy fruit fever dream. A labour of love. All for this great song by our pal Jape. Made around 2007 with basically no budget, built a set in our friends studio. High Speed cameras were not a thing yet so Ruairi our DP, flew to Liverpool and rented one from a nature cinematographer, who had used it to film Humming birds. Got a million views on a new platform called ‘youtube’ when it was released, which was exciting.

It won a D&AD pencil and got a UKMVA nomination too.