Keith Patrick
| Keith Patrick | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ireland |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Keith Patrick is an actor and film maker with a background that has included a number of independently produced films.
Leading actor of the experimental film-short, 'Work is Pointless’ as the travelling man. Premiered at County Limerick's Belltable Arts Centre, as an opener for the Irish Premier of Science of Sleep. This film being part of an initiative over one weekend where the finest short-film making talent from across Europe where brought together. Subsequently it was also presented it by invitation at New York City's White Rabbit Bar. In the same period, he appeared in a music video produced to promote indie Rock band, Sandhill.
A film short, Tolerance - that Keith Patrick scripted, produced and acted for - examined some of the elements of an ultimately destructive relationship of codependence- received a "Highly Recommended" Commendation by the Leicester International Short Film Festival, being one of the best 40 of 609 films seen there in November 2007.
A sports performance history includes time spent as a wrestler in the IWF Independent. The IWFI is a touring company of wrestlers in England who are trained in choreographed fighting techniques. It was in the early formative days during the time when it was managed and promoted by the martial arts entrepreneur Peter Wilson, that Keith was ’Rico Sanchez’ whose wrestling motif took inspiration from Spanish bullfighting.
Keith was taught Commedia dell'Arte technique by one of Dario Fo's protégé's, Antonio Venturino, a highly skilled Commedia practitioner, and was directed by him in a staged production of Aristophanes' The Birds. Later, he sought training from Mel Churcher, the respected acting coach and a frequent collaborator on Luc Besson's films.
Featuring in the Last Coiner, an independently published graphic novel, Keith appeared as David Hawksworth — a character based on a notorious counterfeit gang leader from King George III's England, whose story began in the 1770s. The figure from True Crime History on whom the character is based is "King" David Hartley with living descendants in North Yorkshire. Keith appeared in the Last Coiner Graphic Art Novel utilising bluescreen photography and finished with photo-realist art. A subsequent thirty-minute long Documentary-Short The Yorkshire Coiners is a complimentary piece to the Novel and was screened at Art House venues including the Hebden Bridge Picture House, and Chapel Square in Halifax, Yorkshire.
Doorstopper, a much requested Video Art installation was presented to the public at the Athens Video Art Festival in 2009, projected on to screening venue entrances at the site in Athens, Greece.
Formerly, the same has been Premiered at Newcastle upon Tyne's Odeon Cinema and at the Sky Deck, in conjunction with the British Art Show 6, and since at varied venues over Europe, and additionally at the Artists Independent Network in Texas, USA. Door Stop is a silent piece examining the politic of the Nightclub Doorman, highlighting relevant body-language perfectly complementing Keith's talent for Commedia technique, and his actual experience as a nightclub bouncer, and bodyguard.
An earlier film short called Brass for which Keith provided the screenplay and served as fight scene technical advisor also featured Keith as a dirty-handed debt collector, Mr McQueen. A number of films Keith has appeared in have received screenings at The Tyneside Cinema's Mike Figgis Digital Lounge. In addition to Brass, they include the independently produced British film No Place, and The Bomber—the latter made for the Northern 48 Hour Film Challenge in 2006.