Filmore!

Filmore! is the solo project of Irish artist Dafe Pessu Orugbo, known for building immersive, concept-driven worlds that sit between music, performance and visual art. Emerging in 2022 via a Dublin Fringe Festival-commissioned project, which earned him the George Fitzmaurice Award for experimental art, Filmore! uses genre collision and narrative as core tools, blending hyperpop, punk, hip-hop and electronic elements into something deliberately unstable.

Positioned as both artist and character, the project often leans into satire and exaggeration to reflect the absurdity of contemporary culture, threading themes of power, violence and digital identity through each release. His debut material gained early support across Spotify editorial playlists and outlets including Hot Press, EARMILK and District, while live performances at Ireland Music Week and Other Voices established Filmore! as a distinct voice within Ireland’s alternative scene.

Operating less as a traditional musician and more as a conceptual storyteller, Filmore!’s work consistently challenges format, expectation and audience comfort, using sound, visuals and narrative to interrogate the systems shaping modern life.

2026 sees Filmore! return with Brainrott - a mixed-media project that explores the deepest, most twisted depths of online culture and asks whether there’s any value left in the digital world. He literally breaks his brain in the process, hoping to make sense of incel culture, manosphere, misogyny, TikTok dances to genocide and racist Twitter threads. It’s all terrible. It’s all insane. It’s all Brainrott.