From Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd September 2002, Darklight Digital
Festival once again brings to Ireland the best in new digital
cinema and artworks.
Darklight screens short-films, documentaries, music videos,
feature films, and animations - innovative films that utilise
digital technology in their production. The Digital Hub sponsors
Darklight 4.
Darklight 4 will take place in an exciting new city centre venue,
the former Lee's Cash n'Carry building on the corner of Thomas
Street and Crane Street, (neighbours to the Storehouse and Media
Lab Europe, and the Digital Hub). There will be clear location markers on the day for those who are
not familiar with the site it is a ten minute walk from Dublin Castle/Dame Street.
For one weekend, this impressive space will be transformed into a
cinema and gallery: a perfect home for Darklight's eclectic and
busy series of events.
Selected highlights of Darklight 4 include: a specially created
installation from 'Decal', the world premiere of Glen Dimplex
Award-winning artist Paul Rowley's feature film 'As Lathair', the
latest in cutting-edge digital art, short films and 'Motion', a
selection of new music videos.
Darklight 4 will look at the theme of 'regeneration and new
generations', with it's 'Crossing Over' programme, Rob Nilsson's
'Scheme 6', a short programme of films produced and directed by
NCAD and the Educational Unit at the Department of Justice for
Portlaoise Prisoners, this programme will also look at work which
deals with the issues of immigration, and emigration out-reach
projects, there will be an open forum discussion to tie in these
ideas during the day.
DARKLIGHT 4: THE PROGRAMME
OPENING EVENT: The festival will be launched by acclaimed Dublin
electronica duo DECAL, with FALKENS MAZE - a mixed media installation
created especially for Darklight 4.
MEDIA LAB EUROPE (MLE): A selection of new work from
the M.I.T. Media Lab programme, based in Dublin. Highlights include
Michael Lew's Office Voodoo (2002), an interactive sit-com where viewers
can manipulate the emotions of the protagonists using a physical,
graspable interface: voodoo dolls.
MLE will also feature installation work from Stefan Agamanolis and Ben
Piper, as well as IPO MADNESS, Jonah Brucker-Cohen's interactive, Internet connected domain-generating slot machine.
NEW DIGITAL SHORTS: A diverse selection of the finest new short films,
from both home and abroad, utilising digital technology. Highlights
include THE RND# PROJECT (Random Number) by Richard Fenwick, an ongoing
series of short films that investigate and question our hugely weird and
wired reliance on, and for, technology.
SCHEME 6: a new digital feature from Rob Nilsson, San Francisco based
film director and winner of both the Camera d'Or at Cannes (for NORTHERN
LIGHTS) and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (for HEAT
AND SUNLIGHT). Nilsson is a pioneer of today's digital revolution, and
SCHEME 6 is the latest in his 9@Night film series: a unique cycle of
street level dramatic feature films about the lives of 50 inner city
characters, utilising a cast that mixes homeless, inner city residents
with professional actors.
CROSSING OVER, an insightful pick and mix of experimental digital
artists' work, commissioned between 1996-2001 for the annual Crossing
Over Micro- Festival of Digital Film Culture. This programme includes
work from Estonia, N. Ireland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ireland, Hungary,
England, Scotland, USA, and Croatia.
MOTION: a selection of contemporary graphic/music-led exploratory films
and music promos, offering international work from the likes of Warp and
Ninja Tunes alongside new, emerging Irish collectives such as Del9 and
Daddy. MOTION will also showcase new work from acclaimed designer and
online artist Motomichi Nakamura.
AS L�THAIR- ABSENT- World Premiere:
Shot in the deserts and cactus forests of Mexico, and four years in the
making,As L�thair is the first feature length work by Glen Dimplex Award
winning artist Paul Rowley. Based loosely on the Western, the film takes
the genre and breaks it apart,
presenting a series of broken fragments, stories aligned closely to the
seemingly random order of dreams. The haunting soundtrack and hypnotic
movement of the images pulls us through a world unlike any other in
cinema,where nothing can be explained, but everything makes sense.
For full programme details please go to www.darklight-filmfestival.com
