New Irish Film: Pyjama Girls - Trailer

Over the course of a year, Pyjama Girls follows the lives of a group of teenage girls who wear pyjamas as daywear, all day, every day. Focussing principally on teenagers Orla and Vicky, the film tracks the intense micro-dramas of teenage life in the close-knit community of the Basin Street Flats in Dublin's inner city.

 

Wearing pyjamas in public first emerged on the streets of Dublin during the early years of the new century and since then it has become increasingly popular in the city?s most disadvantaged areas. It is a purely female phenomenon and it provokes surprisingly strong adverse reactions in the wider population. Pyjama wearing is now banned from schools and dole offices, it provokes furious radio debates and online rants, yet the girls who wear pyjamas as daywear in Dublin?s inner-city didn?t set out to grab attention.

 

Pyjama Girls has as its focus the everyday lives of teenage girls - their likes and dislikes, their tastes and style, their friendships and fallouts and their challenges and personal journeys. In the booming, crashing soundscape of the flats, it's the boys who make themselves heard, shouting, smashing, and at night, screeching in stolen cars between the blocks. Meanwhile the girls express themselves through the visual language of young women ? clothes and fashion. Their dress sense is read as a badge of social standing, yet while wearing pyjamas during the day links them together, in the film, it is this trend that provides a visual springboard from which to gain insight into their individual lives.

 

Directed By Maya Derrington
Produced By Nicky Gogan

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