working across documentary, installation art and experimental film. His research focuses on the development of nonfiction filmmaking methodologies and creative participatory practices, with a particular focus on rural and agricultural communities on the island of Ireland.
Michael has exhibited extensively as a visual artist, often working in video installation of nonfiction films, including at (2024 & 2022), PUBLICS, Helsinki (2024), Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre (2022), South Tipperary Arts Centre (2022), Riverbank Arts Centre (2018), Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem (2017), Roscommon Arts Centre (2015), and Y Galerii, Tartu (2015).
Since 2018 he has worked in collaboration with and her production company . Together they have co-directed two , an ethnographic- style film on the tensions between the agricultural community and ecological fragility of the Beara Peninsula of Co. Cork, , about a community of Gaelic culture revivalists in Ireland who follow the teachings of the enigmatic mystic and philosopher John Moriarty, and a short film, , who discovered a rare fern in Killarney National Park.
Michael is a long-time collaborator with the , run by Michelle Horrigan and Sean Lynch. He has worked with ACA on several projects, and a book exploring the systematic destruction of historical and folkloric objects on the Irish landscape, in 2019.