‘I spent nine months building this Irish story around a hipster teashop’

Dylan Townsend has been making short films for some time now, but his comedy series Hipsterverse is his most ambitious project to date, writes Leanna Byrne

Dylan Townsend describes Hipsterverse as a ‘National Geographic look at hipsters’; below: Michael Coleman in Hipsterverse. Fergal Phillips

Dylan Townsend remembers the moment he first got behind the camera. He was hungover, and in the company of his friend Jeff.

His brother, the renowned actor Stuart Townsend, had bought him a video camera and the pair decided to take it out for a bit of mischief.

Townsend dressed in pink fisherman’s pants, boots, a Belstaff jacket and 1930s John Lennon-style green glasses. Jeff wore a suit jacket and long trousers.

“We ...