FREE RADICALS SHORTS
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS FRI 14 | 1130 | TRISKEL | 89MINS
Most of the work in the Free Radicals shorts programme was created from Super-8, 16mm and 35mm film, demonstrating that in the right hands film is still a medium full of vitality and possibility.
Sky Lines
Minore
Sets of choreographed lines dance across the screen...
An attempt for a vague description of something lost.
NADINE POULAIN | SERBIA | 2013 | 10MINS | B&W
YIORGOS NALPANTIDIS | GREECE | 2014 | 6MINS
Black Channel Forest
IAN HELLIWELL | UK | 2014 | 5MINS
A collaboration between Helliwell and Black Channels.
Water from Grain
Picture Particles
Sea of Vapors / Meer der Dünste
The filmmaker captures youths hanging out in Vienna.
Repetition is administered as a binder to tame the wild particles in motion.
A cascade of images cut frame by frame flow into an allegory of the lunar cycle.
JOSEPHINE AHNELT | AUSTRIA | 2013 | 13MINS | B&W
Cloud Shadow / Wolkenschatten
ANJA DORNIEDEN, JUAN DAVID GONZALEZ MONROY | GERMANY | 2014 | 17MINS
This is the horror machine.
THORSTEN FLEISCH | GERMANY | 2014 | 6MINS
SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER | GERMANY | 2014 | 15MINS | B&W
The Death of Place
DIRK DE BRUYN | AUSTRALIA | 2014 | 14MINS
Half articulated childhood memories of learning to read and write.
Still Dissolution
SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF | AUSTRIA | 3MINS | 2013
Warning: contains strobe lighting effects.
There is a past. Film shows this transience.
EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB presents OUR SOULS ARE PALESTINIAN SAT 15 | 2PM | CRAWFORD ART GALLERY | 88 MINS
They do not Exist MUSTAFA ABU ALI | 25MINS | 1974 | B&W The Story of Milk & Honey BASMA AL-SHARIF | 10 MINS | 2011 Dirty Pictures (Hotel Diaries #7) JOHN SMITH | 14MINS | 2007 Story of I and Other Suggestive Landscapes MIRNA BAMIEH | 23MINS | 2013 Future Archaeology (part of the Decolonizing Architecture project) ARMIN LINKE & FRANCESCO MATTUZZI | 19MINS | 2009/10 | 3D
This programme of short artists' film works looks at Palestine from various perspectives - external, embedded and provocative. Each of the filmmakers go beyond mainstream media representations of Palestine to interrogate the emotional and political landscape through uncanny juxtaposition of image and text.
Followed by a panel discussion about film media and the current situation in Palestine including Laurence Davis (Dept of Government UCC), Rola Abu Zeid O’Neill (Dept of Sociology UCC), Harry Browne (School of Media DIT) and Francesco Mattuzzi (co-director of Future Archaeology). Curated and chaired by artist/filmmaker Aoife Desmond. 82