Irish director Neil Jordan will be on hand to unveil his film installation version of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Not I’ at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) on Thursday August 9.
The installation is Jordan’s interpretation of Beckett’s famous 1972 play, which sees an actress deliver a long monologue while only her mouth is visible to the audience. Jordan’s interpretation features American actress Julianne Moore (The Kids are Alright), with her mouth featured on six different screens arranged in a circular configuration. The installation, which is 13 minutes long, was shot from multiple angles to create a spatially immersive experience.
Jordan described the process: “We had these enormous two-thousand foot film rolls and we filmed Julianne from different perspectives. They all were a different record of the same event…each angle was also the complete version...If I could pull them all into one synch and present each angle, simultaneously, to the viewer, the multiplicity with which cinema presents the world would be accessible to the viewer in a unique manner.”
Jordan has received acclaim for his interpretation of one of Beckett’s most “intense theatrical experiences”.
The installation will be unveiled to the public as part of IMMA’s Time Out of Mind collection exhibition, at IMMA’s temporary exhibition space at the National Concert Hall (NCH) on Friday August 10.
A private view will take place the previous day, with Jordan attending an in conversation with event with Dr Maeve Connolly in the Lecture Room at the NCH Building at 5pm. Admission is free but booking online is essential at www.imma.ie.
