Conall McCauley

Conall McCauley is an emerging Animator, Sound Artist and Filmmaker from rural Derry. He primarily works in 2D Stop Motion Animation, photographing layers of oil paint on canvas to produce frames of animation. His short animated films explore the theme of faith in its many forms and the sense of place in Ulster. Every frame of his films are meticulously painted and photographed, the process of animation itself becoming a form of faith, with each new layer of paint permanently covering the last. 

Conall graduated from BA Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast in 2023 and has since worked as a freelance Foley Artist and Sound Designer on Film, TV productions and has produced Sound Art Installations for exhibitions throughout Ireland, including a 2025 collaboration with the NI Screen Archive, where Conall performed Foley sound effects live for cinema audiences. He currently works for the Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB, where he oversees oral history projects and produces documentary material surrounding the work of Seamus Heaney.

His sound installations and animated short films have played locally and internationally in exhibitions and film festivals since 2022.