People Enjoy my Company by Frank Sweeney

'People enjoy my company' explores the 1999 privatisation of Telecom Éireann from the viewpoint of shareholders communicating on early online forums. The film contextualises this event within emerging ideologies of technological emancipation in the pre millennium period.

Film by Frank Sweeney
Animation by Andrew Loughnane
Script editing & narration by Matt Bratko

Music
Scooter - Back in Ireland (Club Tools 1996)
DJ Healer - The Great Escape (All Possible Worlds 2018)

Archive:
RTÉ Archives Irish Film Archives at the IFI
Material from the Bord Fáilte collection at the Irish Film archive courtesy of Fáilte Ireland Internet Archive

Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland
Exhibition Funded by Brightening Air
The development was funded by a Rapid Residency Award from Science Gallery Dublin

Thanks to:
John Coate, Recycle IT, Science Gallery Dublin, aemi, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Fáilte Ireland, Paul O’Neill, Maura Conway, Kerry Guinan, Rachel Donnelly, Cóilín O’Connell, Pat Murphy, Tadgh OSullivan, Lulu OSullivan, Tom ODea, Jack Colleran, Anthony O'Connor