A FILMMAKER returned to his West Cork roots as the setting for his feature which will premiere at the Cork Film Festival on Thursday November 16th.Solitaire was written and directed by Maximilian Le Cain, and it will screen at the festival this Thursday at 8.30pm at the Triskel A
Influenced by early avant-garde cinema, Atoosa Pour Hosseini explores the coalescence of illusion and reality through the media of film, video installation, sculpture and performance.
When Project Arts Centre reopened the Gallery on May 13th with Luminous Void, a celebration of 20 years of the Experimental Film Society, it was the third time the exhibition had been rescheduled. âThe plan had been for this big programme of events,â says artistic director Cian OâBrien. Now some will be online, but there is an increasing sense that cultureâs digital phase may be fading â though not entirely disappearing.
While Covid has made arts organisations up their digital game, and online events have removed geographical barriers, they are no replacement. âI have struggled to engage with work online,â says OâBrien. âUnless something really holds your attention, it doesnât work. In a theatre you have that collective sense to bring you back if your attention wanders. Also, Iâm spending my whole day in front of a screen, so Iâm not differentiating. Thatâs a challenge.â
La Mama Cinematica: Love
DATE $20.00
Cinematica’s LOVE edition aims to explore the myriad shapes of love in all its glorious forms through the medium short-film, obscure and experimental film, the moving-image and avant-garde cinema.
Featured Filmmakers:
Irene Proebsting and Barry Brown were active members of the eclectic and iconoclastic Melbourne Super 8 Film Group and have been collaborating on hybrid analogue digital media projects since the 1990s. Their films and soundtracks deploy numerous compositional strategies including appropriation, chance, collage and improvisation, and utilise a variety of idioms ranging from evocative post-verity dramaturgies to absurdist agitprop narratives. Their works have been exhibited in a number of experimental screenings such as the Night Projection Window at the CCP, discreet montage at the Latrobe Regional Gallery, and Obscure Transmissions as part of the RetrOZ! Series, at the Artist Film Workshop.