Evocative and thought-provoking artists and filmmakers from Ireland and abroad will be highlighted in the Irish Film Institute this July, with the highlight Jon Nguyen film opening July 14th.
Lynch is considered one of American cinema’s finest visionaries, and ‘The Art of Life’ provides an intimate portrait of the usually private director, with a privileged view of his process as a fine artist as well as an insight into his upbringing and intransigent commitment to self-expression.
Edith Walks
Andrew Kötting’s film will screen on Sunday, July 2nd at 16.00 and Monday, July 3rd at 18.20. Inspired by a statue of King Harold in the arms of his first wife Edith Swan-Neck, filmmaker Kötting journeys 108 miles on foot from Waltham Abbey in Essex to St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, where the sculpture is situated. Edith Walks will screen with Forgotten the Queen, a 12-minute animated short, directed by Eden Kötting.
Out of Body
IFI & aemi will collaborate with artist Susan MacWilliam to present Out of Body, a selection of moving image works that explore the psychic and physical space of body and landscape. Presented in partnership with IMMA’s As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits and Mystics exhibition, the screening will take place on Sunday, July 25th at 18.30 and will be introduced by MacWilliam.
Featuring works from Jordan Baseman, Maya Deren, Mairéad McClean, Paul Sharits, John Smith and Susan MacWilliam, these films encourage a consideration of the external and the internal, of that which is visible and which is not, drawing attention to the very act of looking and even eliciting the feeling of being ‘out of body’.
The immersive experience offered by aemi Projections, together with discourse around the films, helps create a vital sense of cinema culture, and allows film lovers to take the plunge into the world of artist cinema.
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