Welcome to IndieCork 2020 – Special Edition!
Some of the IndieCork team 2020 Credits Photo: Marcin Lewandowski
We’d like to say a warm welcome to all of you. Thank Honorary Patron PR & Communications you for picking up our catalogue, for looking at our Ken Loach Healy Communications programme and thinking about participating in Advisory Panel Photography the festival. Whether you’ll be joining us at the big Lenny Abrahamson Marcin Lewandowski screen at The Gate Cinema, or cosying up at home Laurent Crouzeix Jedrzej Niezgoda to watch flms at IndieCork Online, we thank you for Louis Marcus your support. Bill Morrison Festival poster artwork Pat Murphy Marcin Lewandowski Despite this hugely challenging year, we can feel Roger Shannon Double Marvellous John Smith the good-natured enthusiasm people have for the Original artwork festival. We’re in the privileged position of being able IndieCork Managing Committee Marcin Lewandowski / to have a real, physical festival with our partner, The 2020 soundofphotography Gate Cinema. Due to their professionalism and Dr. Eileen Hogan (Chairperson) support of IndieCork they, as in the previous seven Úna Feely Festival Trailer years, offer us a warm festival home. It will be a joy Mick Hannigan Sandymount Productions – Visuals Dr.Tony Langlois Tony Langlois - Music to again sit in Screen 1 watching our new flms with Arthur Leahy our wonderful audiences. Ronan Leonard Awards Helen Lynch Liz Morrissey Uncertainty can breed ingenuity also, and with Ger Marshall the generous support of Blacknight Solutions, Niall Owens Film Selection Panel our sponsor for the ffth year, we’ve been able to Dervla Baker Theresa Berres IndieCork Co-Directors Aoife Claffey reimagine IndieCork as a hybrid event, both online Úna Feely Holly Cooney and physical. Over two weeks, you’ll be able to Mick Hannigan Calum Fenton ‘attend’ from home: view flms, meet flmmakers, Luke Hickey Thank You enjoy live events and Q & A’s. We thank Blacknight ‘IndieCork Online’ Manager Kate Hodgson for their faith and support in this new venture. It Peter Zemek Katie Kirwan simply would not happen without them. Jakub Krajewski Programming Team Renata Lima Our Members & Shareholders Nell Roddy, Robert McCann Finn, Break Out Stephanie Fuchs, Astrid Guger, Autlook Film Úna Feely Helen Lynch Filmmakers and musicians Pictures Sales Films are still being made, and continued to be Mick Hannigan Jon Patrick Margaret Greene & staff, The Gate Cinema Claire Dunlop, Siobhán Farrell, Eclipse Veronika Krejčová, Slovak Film Instutute made throughout this diffcult period. A huge thanks James Mulvey Natasha Marshall Michele Neylon, Blacknight Solutions Pictures Víťezslav Chovanec, Czech Film Centre to all the flmmakers screening with us this year. Your Peter Zemek James Mulvey Cork City Council Arts Offce Damian Mc Carthy Alexandra Gabrižová, Disco Sailing flms are needed more than ever, and we intend Sabina Rogala Julie Connelly & staff, Cork Volunteer Centre Imelda Selkova, Kristina Aschenbrennerova, Embassy of Slovak Republic in Ireland to do them justice and giving them the greatest Music Programmer Felipe Rosa Ian McDonagh, Cork County Council Arts Slovak Film Institute Embassy of The Czech Republic in Ireland Tony Langlois Oliver Richards Offce Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Liran Atzmor, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ireland presentation we can at the festival. Likewise with our Mathieu Roscio Barry English, Double Marvellous Salette Ramalho & team Agencia Curtas Embassy of Hungary in Ireland two special audio projects, our aim is to platform Documentary Programmer Silvio Severino John Foley & Lisa Sheridan, Bite! Design Metragem Arty Pawsey your talent as widely as possible. James Mulvey Peter Zemek Pádraig Trehy, Donna Rose, Trish Brennan, Natalia Dabrowska, New Europe Harry Moore CIT Wouter Jannsen, Square Eyes Robin Parmar To everyone who contributed to the festival; ‘Manifestations of Fear’ Website Design Crawford College of Art & Design Jing Haase, Swedish Film Institute Mick’O’Shea flmmakers, musicmakers, Festival Members and Programmer Jaywin Design Kevin Tuohy and CIT Arts Offce Tagdh O’Cruadhlaoich Karen Power Natasha Marshall Jonathan Healy, Niamh Hennessy, Healy Mary Crilly & Dola Twomey John Byrne the festival team - your time, energy, talent and Communications Katarzyna Wilk, Krakow Film Festival & Polish Danny McCarthy enthusiasm is greatly appreciated. art(ist)FILM selection Cllr. Dan Boyle docs Ed Baxter Donna Rose (Chair) IndieCork Festival Awards The Guesthouse Valentina Bronzini, Match Factory Bernard Clark, Lyric FM If this year has a theme, it’s about taking something 2020 Dennis Passveer, Filmchief Pascale Ramonda, Astrid Guger Gema Films Glucksman Gallery we thought we’d lost and fnding out it’s merely in Technical Manager Jim Morrish, CMJ Printing Charneca Bubble Productions Resonance FM Kieran Fitzgerald Best Emerging Irish Female Director Denis Cotter, Paradiso Baloji, Sudu Conexion Dublin Digital Radio the shadows – and then bringing it to the light. Joe Winfeld, Jaywin Design Txema Muñoz, KIMUAK Francis Lynch Print Traffc Manager Best Creative Cork Short Film Nikki ffrench Davis & staff, Civic Trust House Soetkin Verstegen Norah Norton Enjoy the 8th IndieCork Film and Music Festival! Oliver Richards Sinéad Barrett and artists, Sample Studios Nora Ananyan Ken Loach Best Irish Short Film Gerald Weber, sixpackflm Anne Laure Barbarit, MK2 All the hardworking Selection Panel Projection Eileen Hogan (Chairperson), Arthur Leahy, Ronan Best International Short Film Dave Reid and staff, Element Pictures Mary & Ivan Pawle, Mary Pawle Wines Volunteers & friends, for your invaluable Leonard, Mick Hannigan, Niall Owens, Ger Marshall, Dave Coleman Ed Guiney, Annette Waldron, Element Arthur Leahy, Quay Co-op support Helen Lynch, Úna Feely, Tony Langlois Jakub Krajeswksi Art(IST)flm Irish Graduate Pictures Paraic Spillane, Sandymount Productions Award Carey Fitzgerald, Silver Mountain Lynne Sachs Catalogue Production Team Productions Christina Liapi, Heretic Outreach Theresa Berres Spirit of the Festival Award Nick Costello, Sandra Houlihan, Fiona Breslin, Mike Hoolboom Úna Feely Emerging Music Award Universal Kino Rebelde Mick Hannigan Maëlle Guenegues, Cat & Docs James Mulvey 2 3 Box Offce Information Opening/Closing Film
Opening Film The Gate Cinema IndieCork Online Caveat
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Damian Mc Carthy / 2020 / Ireland / 85 mins www.gatecinemas.com www.indiecork.com Producer: Justin Hyne in partnership with Blacknight Solutions Writer: Damian Mc Carthy Cinematography: Kieran Fitzgerald The Gate Cinema Composer: Richard G. Mitchell North Main Street Cast: Ben Caplan, Jonathan French, Cork City Leila Sykes, Inma Pavon, Conor Dwane 021 4279595 www.gatecinemas.com Here you can see a wide selection of flms and October 4th programmes in this year’s festival from October 4th to October 18th . 8.30pm Shows up to 5pm: €7 full price / €6.50 concession price You can purchase tickets for single programmes or you Gate Cinema Shows from 5pm: can buy an Online Pass to see the full online programme. €10 full price / €9 concession price A lone drifter, Isaac, suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job from his old landlord Barrett, to look after his niece Shorts Programmes: €5 Olga, a psychologically troubled woman living in an abandoned house on an isolated island. When Barrett convinces Features & Documentaries: €6 Isaac to confne his movements to the house and leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and mouse ensues with Season Ticket - €75 Online Festival Pass: €35 Isaac fghting to survive amid the terrifying resurgence of his own memory. Members Season Ticket - €65 Please note: Cork’s Damian Mc Carthy fulflls all the promise of his awarded short flms in this, his debut feature. Shot throughout This includes an Online Festival pass with programmes County Cork. available to October 18. Films that screen in The Gate Cinema, become available Please contact [email protected] to buy a Season on IndieCork Online after their physical screening and Print Source: HyneSight Films Ticket. are available for viewing up to October 18th. (except for Henry Glassie: Fieldwork, which screens simultaneously physically and online)
Films that will screen only at The Gate Cinema and not Closing Film online, are marked in the programme with a symbol. Please be sure to check in case a flm is not online. Breaking Out
This symbol is marked on flms not screening online Michael McCormack / 2019 / Ireland / 85 mins
Information, Help & Advice As there will be no Festival Information Desk at the Gate this year, please contact us at [email protected] and Producer: we’re happy to help. Michael McCormack, Aideen O’Sullivan
October 11th
8.30pm
Gate Cinema Advance ticket booking is strongly advised from website gatecinemas.com, also guaranteeing your preferred seating choice in the theatre. 12 seats are Fergus O’Farrell was the charismatic voice of Interference, one of the most compelling and infuential bands to emerge automatically locked around your selected seat for from the Irish music scene in the 1990’s. He was best known for his timeless song Gold which featured in the soundtrack your safety and comfort during the show. We kindly to Once, the Oscar-winning flm and multi-Tony-award-winning musical. Despite being diagnosed with muscular ask customers to adhere to the guidelines and dystrophy at a young age, through it all, Fergus had to keep singing. His unique talent and love for life inspired a rules set out in the cinema for your safety and to generation of songwriters, even as his own was slipping away. Oscar-winner Glen Hansard was one of those songwriters comply with the clearly marked regulations. and never forgot that voice, and in one of the many incredible moments in Breaking Out, he performs the ultimate duet as Fergus’ greatest gift was failing. This is the story of that voice, and Fergus’ ferce passion and dedication to his art.
Winner of Best Irish Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh 2019 and hailed by Screen Daily as “deeply affecting” and “a privilege to watch”, this intimate journey into the heart and soul of Fergus O’Farrell was flmed over ten years by director Michael McCormack.
Breaking Out is a love story about music, family and friendship. Screen Ireland
Print source: Element Distribution 4 5 Features
Arracht
Tom Sullivan / 2019 / Ireland / 86min / Irish language / subtitled
Producer: Cuán MacConghail Writer: Tom Sullivan Cinematography: Kate McCullough Cast: Dónal Ó hÉalaí, Dara Devaney, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Elaine O’Dwyer
October 10th
8.30pm
Gate Cinema
Ireland, 1845, on the eve of The Great Hunger. Colmán Sharkey, a fsherman, a father, a husband, takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier in the Napoleonic wars arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a disease that eventually wipes out the country’s potato crop, contributing to the death and displacement of millions. As the crops rot in the felds, Colmán, his brother and Patsy travel to the English Landlord’s house to request a stay on rent increases that Colmán predicts will destroy his community. His request falls on deaf ears and Patsy’s subsequent actions set Colmán on a path that will take him to the edge of survival, and sanity. It is only upon encountering an abandoned young girl that Colmán’s resolve is lifted. Just in time for the darkness of his past to pay another visit.
Striking cinematography of stark western locations and visceral central performances conjure the unimaginable horrors of famine in a narrative that reveals the injustice of the prevailing regime. Irish Film Institute
Bracingly authentic… Instinctively the viewer shivers as Colmán confronts his fate… rarely has a flm felt this chilled to the bone. Screen Daily Print Source: Break Out Pictures
Old Timers
Martin Dušek, Ondřej Procazník / 2019 / Czech Republic, Slovakia / 85 mins
October 7th
8.30pm
Gate Cinema
Best Film, Czech Film Awards, 2019
A thriller with a difference, Vlasta and Tonda don’t have much longer to live but they do have one more important task ahead of them – to fnd and kill the communist prosecutor who sent them to prison in the 1950s. An unusual road movie about two former political prisoners who fght for justice despite every obstacle.
The director duo came from a documentary background which translate into the realistic depiction of the main protagonist journey. It is a revenge thriller loosely based on real events, one that doesn’t have men jumping over buildings and car chases in speeding exploding cars but men who sometimes struggle to get into a car. But that doesn’t make them less unstoppable.
In partnership with Visegrad Film Festival Print Source: Endor Film 6 7 Features Features
Never Rarely Sisters Apart Sometimes Always
Daphne Charizani / Germany, Greece / 2020 / 93 mins
Eliza Hittman / 2019 / USA / 101 mins October 8th
October 9th 8.30pm
8.30pm Gate Cinema
Gate Cinema
Winner Sisters Apart is a compelling flm from Greek director and writer Daphne Charizani and is by Silver Bear Award, far one of the most emotionally touching flms Berlinale, 2020 that you will come across this year. In Their Own Language
This is an intimate portrayal of Autumn, a stoic, quiet teenager and her more outgoing cousin Skylar in rural Pennsylvania. Rojda is a young German soldier with Kurdish-Iraqi roots who has lived in Germany since childhood. She is now looking Faced with an unintended pregnancy and without viable alternatives in her home state, they scrape up some cash, for her mother Ferhat in a Greek refugee camp. When the two fnally fnd each other after so many years apart, they pack a suitcase, and board a bus to New York City. With only a clinic address in hand and nowhere to stay, the two girls are overjoyed. But their happiness soon fades when Rojda learns that her sister Dilan is still in Iraq. Rojda succeeds in bravely venture into the unfamiliar city. bringing her mother to Germany, but she is unable to reach her sister. When the phone rings and Dilan mentions Kurdish fghters, Rojda is flled with fear. She decides to request a redeployment to Erbil in Iraq so she can fnd her sister. Once Hittman describes her flm as inspired by ‘these untold journeys that women take’. We are delighted to screen Eliza there, Rojda quickly wins the trust of the female fghters. But the more intensely she searches for her sister, the more she Hittman’s stunning new flm, having screened all her previous work at the festival. becomes caught between the two sides. (Berlinale, 2020) “The result is a flm that combines the melancholy magic of John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy with the humanist artfulness of the Dardenne brothers’ fnest neorealist works. Perfectly pitched and sensitively played, this is truthful, powerful and profoundly moving fare from a flm-maker at the very top of her game..” The Guardian Print Source: The Match Factory Print Source: NBC Universal
Pari Woman of the Photographs Siamak Etemadi / Greece, France / 2020 / 101 mins
Takeshi Kushida /Japan / 2020 / 88 mins October 10th
1.30pm October 6th Gate Cinema 6pm
“Pari, as portrayed by the mesmerising Foroutan, Gate Cinema gives a mercurially expressive performance; a grounding element in a flm which blinks between realism, symbolism and lyricism and back again. With its meditative, poetic reveries transposed onto a thriller premise, this is a flm which confounds easy categorisation.” Screen Daily
When dutiful wife Pari and her older, strictly religious husband arrive in Athens to visit their grown-up son, he fails to pick Enter the strange microcosm of Takeshi Kushida’s Woman of the Photographs, as a mild-mannered voyage of self- up his parents from the airport as promised. He is not to be found at the address they have for him, either. The two set projection, self-image, and self-worth becomes unsettlingly unhinged to the point of no return. Kai is a quiet man with out in search of their son but soon fnd themselves in the midst of a city in political turmoil, where their paths are blocked implicit discomfort around women, he spends his days in his father’s photography studio, meticulously retouching by street fghting and burning barricades. photos of his clients until they reach the antiseptic, clean-cut beauty of their own self-perception. But he’s disrupted in that routine by the arrival of Kyoko, a beautiful young social media infuencer whom he fnds injured in the woods. Woman Since her husband does not speak a word of English, this traditional Muslim wife now slips into a new role. As she pursues of the Photographs is not only an unorthodox love story, but also a commentary about our world obsessed with social her never-ending, desperate search for her son with increasing independence, she forges unexpected alliances with media and the strong disconnect between who we are and who we’d like to be. Reinforced by beautiful sound design strangers and musters the kind of strength she never knew she possessed. courtesy of Masahiro Yui, it is hard to believe this is Takeshi Kushida’s debut flm. Part visual drama, part body horror, part delirium, it is texturally rich and darkly romantic, and like the lonely photographer at its centre, says a lot with a little. (Osaka Asian Film Festival, 2020)
Print Source: Heretic Outreach Print Source: Heretic Outreach 8 9 Documentaries Documentaries
Birds Breaking Ice (Or How To Be One)
Jason Branagan / Ireland / 2020 / 70 mins
Babis Makridis / Greece / 2020 / 81 mins
October 9th
October 7th 11.45am
3.45pm Gate Cinema Gate Cinema
A flm about what is fake and what is real, that futters between documentary and fction. A flm about fying and falling, In 1986 a London-Irishman named Larry Tracey took it upon himself to form the Irish Bobsleigh and Luge Association. He the human need to fy, fear of heights, vertigo, utopia, Gods and man. A hybrid flm encompassing documentary, fction recruited a group of elite Irish rowers and set his sights on qualifying the team for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. and political fantasy and inspired by Aristophane’s Greek comedy, Birds. They are flmed off stage, in real spaces, their Having achieved qualifcation for the games, the stage was set for an historic Olympic debut. But one thing stood in their natural environments, taking in the lava felds in Iceland, the plateaus of Patagonia, Time Square New York and the way; the Olympic Council of Ireland. Despite qualifying for the games, the OCI refused to allow them to compete at the Egyptian Pyramids. The flm takes place in the routine of the quotidian, fuidly shifting between theatre, people and games (which saw the famous Jamaican bobsleigh team become Olympic heroes). Undeterred, the team evolved and pragmatic recluses who all dream of fying. set their sights on the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.
“This is a wonderful insight into the humorous and creative mind of a truly avant-garde flmmaker.” Source: [email protected] - James Mulvey, Programmer
Body of Truth Henry Glassie: Field Work Evelyn Shels / Germany / 2019 / 96 mins
October 6th Pat Collins / Ireland / 2019 / 105 mins
3.45pm October 5th Gate Cinema 6pm
Gate Cinema
The artists Marina Abramović, Sigalit Landau, Katharina Sieverding and Shirin Neshat use their bodies to create provocative This is a portrait of the American folklorist Henry Glassie, exploring the treasures of his feldwork taking in American and radical works. Each artists has been politicised by their own experiences with war. In their work they explore and songwriter Ola Bela Reed, Brazilian sacred art makers, Turkish weavers and storytellers from Ballymenone, Co. Fermanagh. integrate the violence and suppression of war in the most personal manner possible through their own bodies. Collins is sensitive to the archival material assembled by Glassie from his decades of scholarship and documentation. This is a beautifully crafted, intricate and sensitive flm which believes that the more local the art, the more universal its With each of these women originating from different cultures, the flm brings us on a journey to re-experience the reach. conficts which have shaped their work. The women express the centrality of confict from within the current epoch and how their struggles help articulate broader cultural narratives. This flm provides incredible insight into the workings of The director Pat Collins will conduct a Q&A after the screening these artists’ thoughts and processes. “Pat Collins delivers another pertinent, beautiful and detailed flm to bolster his ever-expanding oeuvre, including Song of Granite (2017), Silence (2012), and Tim Robinson: Connemara (2011). The release of every new Collins flm now marks a national event which is rapidly becoming an international affair, with this flm premiering at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival.” - James Mulvey, Programmer Print Source: Eclipse Pictures 10 11 Documentaries Documentaries
Journey to Utopia A Maverick Islander Erlend Eirik Mo / Denmark, Norway, Sweden / 2020 / 89 mins
Margaretta Darcy / Ireland / 2020 / 52 mins October 9th
6pm October 10th Gate Cinema 12pm
Gate Cinema
Mo, a documentary flmmaker for over 15 years, this time makes a very personal flm, turning the camera on his Danish Is he a lovable rogue or is he a man of the people? A portrait of Sean Ó Loingsigh from The South Connemara islands. opera-singer wife, himself and their children. They have become alarmed by the world which we’re handing down to This flm follows, in a humorous way, his banter with his fellow protagonists. We see his frustration at how local politicians future generations. The global climate crisis leads them to make a dramatic decision to leave the comfort of their ignore the islands and their potential. Norwegian home and move to a Utopia under construction in Denmark. To live in accordance with their convictions, the eco-village Permatopia awaits. But this family revolution, which puts the planet frst, is fraught with danger. As each In life I admire those who go against the grain. I believe the maverick is an essential ingredient for change. My flm family member come to terms with their personal value system, the consequences of their decision unfolds. This is a explores the life of Seán Ó Loinsígh, combining social entrepreneurship and community leadership. Studying the rules wonderfully humorous road movie that throws up an array of problems, including ethical and aesthetic issues. and breaking them, is sometimes the only way to get things done! Margaretta Darcy, Director
Judy vs. Private Fiction Capitalism Andrés Di Tella / Argentina / 2019 / 79 mins
Mike Hoolboom / Canada/ 2020 / 62 mins October 5th
3.45pm October 9th Gate Cinema 12pm
Gate Cinema
Feminist, activist and journlist Judy Rebick has been a major representative of progressive Canada since the 1970’s. This In his latest documentary, director Andrés Di Tella uses photographs and love letters inherited from his late parents. His is a portrait flm developed from archival and super-8 footage, revisiting her eventfull past, directed by her distinguished father was born in Argentina and his Mother in India, and their letters span the 1950s and into the 1970s The couple discuss friend and kindred spirit, Mike Hoolboom. Judy is a second wave feminist, writer, journalist and radical activist who lends love, idealism, psychoanalysis, loneliness and broken dreams. This creates more questions than answers and Andrés her voice to the oppressed. While Judy struggles with her identity she simultaneously rages against neo-liberalism and hires two actors, a real life couple, to add voice to his parents words. conservative ideologies illustrating how personal the I is. Judy battles through childhood trauma and mental health issues, all while being in the public eye. With a resurgence in activism, this flm is a timely reminder of how this exceptional This superb flm meditates on the existence of a pretence between fact and fction as the intensity of the two couples person, against all odds, keeps turning up to our fghts for us. becomes intermingled. With the assistance of his own daughter, Di Tella sets about solving the puzzle of his family’s memory.
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Skin + Soul Silêncio - Voices of Lisbon Ciara Nic Chormaic / Ireland / 2020 / 61 mins
October 11th Judit Kalmár, Celine Coste Carlisle / Portugal / 2020 / 87 mins 1.30pm
Gate Cinema October 4th
3.45pm
Gate Cinema
Skin + Soul is an intimate portrait of international fashion photographer, Perry Ogden who has been challenging Set amongst the backdrop of a gentrifed Lisbon, this documentary follows the footsteps of Céline - a local foreigner perceptions of beauty for over thirty years, from photographing Helena Christensen as a circus girl in the wilds of the who has lived in Portugal for 20 years. We are introduced to Ivone Días and Marta Miranda, two singers from different Irish landscape for Vogue to his edgy street culture photography series Pony Kids. Ogden was one of the frst to use generations who fght for the survival of their art and their community. Their common language is Fado, a traditional models and non-models in his high fashion images and to this day he uses family and friends in his work, his style of style of music that talks about the daily struggle of living. With the lyrics of fado songs taking us through the story, the flm photography is still frmly rooted in the DIY spirit of the London Punk scene. He has created fashion images for over thirty explores the relationship between fado singers and the ever-changing world around them. years for American, British and Italian Vogue, Dazed, The Face and W Magazine and a host of other global fashion and art publications.
This beautiful and enlightening documentary will go down in the annals of Irish Film as eminently watchable and one to be truly proud of. Film Ireland
The Viewing Wintopia Booth Mira Burt-Wintonick / Canada / 2019 88 mins
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz / USA / 2019 / 79 mins October 8th
October 10th 6pm
6pm Gate Cinema
Gate Cinema
In a post-truth world, this flm deftly explores the construction of bias by examining the conditions by which we Wintopia traces the enigmatic footsteps of renowned documentary flmmaker Peter Wintonick through the lens of his understand the world. Alexandrowicz invites viewers into a booth, and shows them an assemblage of online images daughter, as she attempts to decipher the map he has left behind. Wintonick was a Canadian independent documentary concerning the harsh realities of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. flmmaker, probably most famous for co-directing Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992). Peter suddenly passed away, leaving his daughter, Mira-Burt Wintonick, to sift through her father’s treasure trove: a box His focus turns to a young American pro-Israeli student, her responses are illuminating when considered through the of found tapes. Mira sets out to complete his last flm and along the way discovers his lifelong obsession with Utopia. Mira dual lens of a constructed society and an ethical response. The flm poses the simple question: what is it that you see maps her enigmatic father’s movement as he crosses the globe, wrestling with life and family in search of Utopia. This when engaging with flmic images? flm is a beautiful collage of emotion, love, grief and reconciliation.
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‘Still, Life’ The Album The IndieCork Sessions
It’s hard to think of an industry more affected by We may not be able to gather together in numbers at the moment, but IndieCork can Covid 19 than live musical performance. No venues, no offer the next best thing; an immersive sonic experience at the centre of a live musical festivals, no audiences. And of course, no income! But performance. naturally the musicians of Cork have not been idle, and this album showcases just some of the composition IndieCork will be making binaural recordings of three live performances during festival week. Binaural recoding collects and recording that has taken place over the last few sound in 360 degrees rather than stereo, and when listening on headphones it gives the feeling of being at the centre of the room, with the musicians all around you. In order to further increase the audience immersion the concerts will months. be flmed by Harry Moore and the audiovisual result will be streamed on our server, and broadcast on radio stations in Ireland the UK. In keeping with IndieCork’s our annual IndieCork Tank nights, this collec- Our frst performance will be an tion of recent work leans towards the experimental and off-beat sounds enthralling improvisation between the that Cork has a proud tradition of nurturing. highly acclaimed Karen Power, Eimear Reidy and John Godfrey. Amongst the included tracks will be a live session from Dock: a loose Their performance will take place in the and lively gathering of improvising musicians, artists, dancers and spacious ambience of the Glucksman Gallery. noise-makers who have been gathering each week to play in the open spaces of Cork docklands. Amongst the album’s other renowned con- Karen’s recent album, “Human Nature” received tributors are Danny McCarthy, Mantua and Nudie Boy Nature. a fantastic fve star review from the Irish Times, and this performance risks becoming Buying the CD version or downloading sumptuous. the digital album will help promote innovative music making in the city and draw attention to the creativity of musicians and sound-artists who have contributed towards the Our second venture into interspatial broadcasting project. will take place in the Guesthouse Arts residency and will feature Andy Ingamells, Irene Murphy, Billy Kemp, The album project, which is co- Peter Venus and Mick O'Shea. ordinated by Tony Langlois and Arty Pawsey, will be dedicated to Their work will involve the performance of experimental score the memory of Günther Berkus, entitled “ Read this Text at Medium Speed” We are assured a pioneer of Cork’s experimental that the results will “sound like an intricate murmuring texture music scene for many decades, who punctuated by delicate pointillistic instrumental sounds”. departed for sunnier dimensions, in September 2020. Listening on headphones will be a unique experience – Tony Langlois especially when consumed alongside Harry’s performance Arty Pawsey video.
Günther Berkus Our last performance in this series will employ song John Byrne, musician structures - up to a point at least!
NumberWitch is an extended improvised piece for harmonium, guitar, vocals, adapted drum and electronics performed by Elaine Malone (Mantua, Soft Focus, HEX), Arthur Pawsey (Arthuritis, MueseuM, Book Of The Dead) and Jack Horgan (Book Of The Dead, Soft Focus, Sunshine Cult Records).
Excerpts from these performances will be later broadcast by Resonance FM (London) RTE Lyric FM and Dublin Digital Radio. CineCeoil October 6th / 8.30pm / Live Stream Join us live streaming online with maestro Ronan Leonard presenting some new music videos by Cork bands and flmmakers, doing his in- famous mixtape. An always popular series that Ronan runs also at the Glasgow and Hamburg festivals. Check www.indiecork.com for full details
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Running Time: 68 mins Forestscape
October 7th
6pm
Gate Cinema
National Student Graduate Artist Film Poppy Star Rescue Dog programme
IndieCork is delighted to present art(ist) FILM, an initiative in collaboration with Cork College of Technology (CIT) Arts Offce, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design and CIT Cork School of Music presenting moving image work by student and Creative Cork 1 Creative Cork 2 graduate artists annually at IndieCork.
In addition to The Gate screening, two screenings will be held online via Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) on Monday, October 5th and Tuesday, October 6th. art(ist)FILM will also offer an online platform for screenings and discussion. Gate Cinema / Oct 5th / 8.30pm / 63 mins Gate Cinema / Oct 6th / 8.30pm / 67 mins
For complete flms and programmes, please see the CIT Arts & Culture website www.arts.cit.ie. and www.indiecork.com
Alice Pieces of 8 Magdalena Wodzisz / Ireland / 2020 / 4 mins 55 secs / drama Julie Forrester / Ireland / 2020 / 2 mins / experimental Alice struggles with who she is, her dance a freeing of her inner ..eye of newt, wing of bat, spun withershins on a gibbous moon... self. Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] In Need Of Repair Family Tree Jack Desmond / Ireland / 2020 / 3 mins 55 secs /drama Emmet O'Brien / Ireland / 2020 / 9 mins 8 secs / animation An isolated elderly man and a lonely handyman strike up a Seymour, a lonely sycamore tree, becomes excited when a new quiet friendship. family moves in to the house on the grounds where he lives. Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] Rescue Dog Looking Glass Rabbit Hole Absence/presence Forestscape Ciara Buckley / Ireland / 2020 / 15 mins / documentary Arran Tenzin Bradstock / Ireland / 2019 / 3 mins 23 secs / Rescue Dog explores the incredible bonds that form between Expropriation / S’espropriu absence | presence experimental humans and their rescue dogs. An exploration of a forest and its textures through visuals and an Source: [email protected] Emanuele Massa / Italy / 2020 /14 mins 35 secs Christina Bennett / Ireland / 2020 / 10 mins 17 secs improvised score composed in real-time to the images. A flm about the degradation of the area outside an A girl makes a return journey through a now uninhabited house Source: [email protected] The Greek Accusative inaccessible military base in Sardinia. flled with memory. Sean O'Deadaigh / Ireland / 2019 / 15 mins / drama Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] Stray An aging actor comes to a small rural theatre to perform his Sinéad O'Loughlin / Ireland / 2019 / 14 mins 53 secs / drama one man show Prometheus. Like Prometheus, he is released Looking For Freedom This Mortal Flesh An elderly woman returns to her home after a violent break-in from his arrogance, and ignorance through his interactions that has robbed her of her husband and her peace of mind. with the people he meets. Aurélie Gauthier / Ireland / 2020 / 2 mins 21 secs Shane Vaughan / Ireland / 2020 / 2 mins 49 secs Alone, she must discover if she’s able, to begin life again. Source: [email protected] A bird, weary of being trapped in a cage fnds the will to The flmmaker invites the audience on a disquieting journey into Source: [email protected] fght her oppressor to reach freedom. pain and relief. Covid Éire Sopurce: [email protected] Source: [email protected] Square One Michael Keane / Ireland / 2020 / 4 mins 49secs / drama Emily Firth Dwyer, Brian Benjamin Dwyer / Ireland / 2019 A young Irish person who contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus Forestscape Ten / 2 mins 26 secs / comedy takes a train ride while telling his story of how his life mentally A short comedy about willpower... and chocolate. and physically unraveled. Arran Tenzin Bradstock / Ireland / 2019 / 3 mins 23 secs Jerome Kelleher / Ireland / 2019 / 8 mins 7 secs Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] An exploration of a forest and its textures through visuals A girl deals with the frightening reality of an anxiety attack. and an improvised score composed in real-time to the Source: [email protected] Poppy Star images. Men of the Dust Harry White / Ireland / 2020 / 9mins 33 secs / documentary Benjamin Burns / Ireland / 2019 / 5 mins 1 sec / experimental Source: [email protected] Rabbit Hole Victor Daly, one of only ten remaining Irish stone carvers still Abstract art with a fower at its heart.
working entirely by hand, is commissioned to create a memorial Source: [email protected] Ashling Duignan / Ireland / 2019 / 4 mins 28 secs for the dead wife of his Buddhist teacher. Looking Glass The ideas expressed in Rabbit Hole refer to Jungian theory and the Source: [email protected] John Minihan - Photographer integration of shadow aspects of the psyche. Stephen Howard Bean / Ireland / 2019 / 5 mins / documentary Calum Fenton / Ireland / 2020 / 5 mins 58 secs Source: [email protected] A flm portrait of celebrated Irish photographer, John Minihan. An experimental flm, using archival footage, about the Encounters of Nothingness Stephen O'Sullivan / 2020 / 10 mins 40 secs /essay flm Minihan’s photos of Beckett are among his best known, one interrelationship between wild nature, domestic nature Under the Surface The flm explores the existential and ontological confrontation has been described as one of the greatest photos of the 20 and industrial production. brought about by the recent Covid-19 pandemic, documenting century. Source: [email protected] Kayleigh Maimaran / Ireland / 2020 / 2 mins 4 secs the drastic shift to an 'uncanny' reality. Source: [email protected] A poetry flm that represents a psychological space which focuses Source: [email protected] Hypnos on memory. Choices Source: [email protected] Paul Batt / Ireland / 2020 / 18 mins /drama Eoin Harnett / Ireland / 2019 / 9 mins 15 secs 72 Miles Brian Stynes / Ireland / 2019 / 12 mins / drama A story of teenage boys and how the decisions they make on A re-imagining of the Greek myth of Hypnos and Spiral Confnement A charming tale from a more innocent time, 72 Miles recounts one particular day can change their lives and those of their Thanatos, the Gods of Sleep and Death. an adventure in the life of a young boy when he accepted a lift families and friends. Source: [email protected] Jamie Burke / Ireland / 2020 / 6 mins 23 secs from a man. Source: [email protected] A refection of an individual’s coping mechanism during the Covid Source: [email protected] 19 Pandemic. Source: [email protected] 18 19 Sun 4th Mon 5th Tues 6th Wed 7th Thurs 8th Fri 9th Sat 10th Sun 11th The Gate
Cinema 11.30am 11.30am 11.30pm Homemade: Irish Fiction 1 Irish Animation Lockdown Stories Pg. 25 Pg. 23 Pg. 26
11.45am 11.45am A Maverick Breaking Ice Islander Pg. 11 Pg. 13
12.00pm Judy Vs. Capitalism Pg. 12
1.30pm 1.30pm 1.30pm 1.30pm 1.30pm 1.30pm 1.30pm 1.30pm World Shorts 1 World Shorts 2 World Shorts 3 World Shorts 4 World Shorts 5 World Shorts 6 Pari Skin &Soul Pg. 27 Pg. 27 Pg. 28 Pg. 28 Pg. 29 Pg. 29 Pg. 8 Pg. 14
3.45pm 3.45pm 3.45pm 3.45pm 3.45pm 3.45pm 3.45pm 3.45pm Silêncio: Voices Private Fiction Body of Truth of Lisbon Birds Irish Docs 1 Irish Docs 2 Irish Fiction 2 World Highlights Pg. 15 Pg. 13 Pg. 10 Pg. 10 Pg. 24 Pg. 24 Pg. 25 Pg. 22
6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm Journey to The Viewing Irish Horror Irish Comedy Henry Glassie: Woman of art(ist)film Wintopia Shorts Field Work the Photographs Utopia Booth Shorts Pg. 18 Pg. 15 Pg. 12 Pg. 14 Pg. 30 Pg. 23 Pg. 11 Pg. 9
Opening Film 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm Never Rarely 8.30pm 8.30pm Old Timers Sisters Apart Sometimes Arracht Breaking Out 8.30pm Creative Cork 1 Creative Cork 2 Pg. 7 Pg. 9 Always Pg. 7 Pg. 5 Pg. 8 Caveat Pg. 19 Pg. 19 Closing Film Pg. 5
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Cultured Tenant Brian Robinson, Dáire McNab Sarah Benson / Ireland / 2020 / 6 mins Ireland / 2020 / 14 mins 14 secs A girl moves into an apartment and becomes consumed with When Johnny, an unemployed hipster, stumbles across his latest curiosity for her strange, reclusive, fatmate. passion project, he becomes obsessed with baking the perfect Source: [email protected] loaf of sourdough bread. Source: [email protected] Husky Darragh Scott / Ireland / 2020 / 8 mins Rip to the Rescue! In the latter half of the 19th century in the United States, a civil Paudie Baggott / 2019 / 14 mins 30 secs war veteran embarks on a treacherous journey to reunite an In the post-apocalyptic Irish midlands an overconfdent orphaned Native American baby with her tribe. American jet pilot tries to rescue a beautiful young woman from Source: [email protected] her domineering Mammy, but ‘round here, getting involved with family can be deadly! The Press Conference Source: [email protected] Daniel McNicholl / Ireland / 2020 / 8 mins Hiding in a kitchen press to avoid another beating, a boy The West Kerry Cowboy watches helplessly as his tormented mother deals with her Cian O Connor/ Ireland / 2019 / 17 mins 57 secs husband’s drunken rampage before tumbling out of the press Big Mac and his dad Frank live a lonely life in the heart of West to her rescue. Kerry. After his mother’s death, Big Mac falls into a secretive world. Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] Wet & Soppy Girl in the Window Cliona Noonan / Ireland / 2020 / 4 mins 2 secs Gary Boyd / Ireland / 2019 / 11 mins 30 secs A weather-tormented man who just wants to dry his Sogni al Campo Derek is in a recovery programme, learning and practicing the underwear is forced to use the local laundromat each nuances of fne art. When he visits a city gallery the snobbish evening. Sogni al campo manager asks him to leave the premises and Derek hatches a Source: [email protected] World Shorts Magda Guidi, Mara Cerri / France / 2020 / 8 mins plan to stage an elaborate art heist. A boy looks for his cat along a river. He will not fnd it. The child Source: [email protected] Sunday’s Child is afraid, he enters a Philip Shanahan / Ireland / 2020 / 5 mins 56 secs Highlights forest of symbols and memories. He grows up. His illusions of Ascending Grace A boy is awoken in the middle of the night, following an entity children dissolve and Claire Byrne / Ireland / 2009 11mins 6 secs that may be connected to a group missing kids. mingle with the landscape. First offcer Maedhbh has high hopes for her frst day of work, but Source: [email protected] when she fails to impress Captain Cara and with a plane full of restless passengers, it’s not what she expected... Girl and Robot Gate Cinema / Oct 11th / 3.45pm / 80 mins All Cats Are Grey In The Dark Lasse Linder / Switzerland / 2019 / 18 mins Source: [email protected] Joe Loftus / Ireland / 2020 / 11mins 55 secs He calls himself ‘Catman’. Christian lives with his two cats A traumatised girl is chased across the desert by offcers of Marmalade and Katjuscha. They are inseparable. A melodrama Everything Looks Better In The Sunshine the state. On her way, she meets a Robot who’s afraid of being Freeze Frame that portrays an unconventional relationship between animal Jonathan Farrelly, Mark Smyth / Ireland / 2020 / 12 mins 37 secs alone. They must work together to survive. Soetkin Verstegen / Belgium / 2020 / 5 mins and human. Patsy, a friendly and well-liked traffc warden is in search of love. Source: [email protected] Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention When he’s hit by a woman on a bike, with a basket full of fowers, of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of Heart Of Gold he goes in search of the Bike Lady. Wear And Tear duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates Simon Filliot / France / 2020 / 12 mins Source: [email protected] Rory Kerr / Ireland / 2020 / 4 mins 35 secs the illusion of stillness. For her son, a poor young mother is forced to sell her organs to A girl wakes to fnd that one of her nightmares has materialised a sick old woman. Flesh, for gold. Little by little, necessity gives into reality, causing a wave of destruction in her world. Dogs Barking At Birds way to the lure of gain. Source: [email protected] Leonor Teles / Portugal / 2019 / 20 mins School is over and there's a bustle in the air. In Porto, tourists Ward’s Henna Party Abe’s Story fll up the streets and cafés. The old and decadent are now Morad Mostafa / Egypt / 2020 / 22 mins Adam H Stewart / Ireland / 2019 / 12 mins 21 secs highlights of the city’s gentrifcation. Vicente moves around Halima, a Sudanese henna painter goes to Basma's, a young Set in Victorian London, Abe an overworked Irish writer draws town on his bike, watching the urban landscape modify day Egyptian bride to prepare her for her wedding: under the eyes inspiration from his day job in the theater to write a bloody by day. The town is no longer the same, the world is changing of her daughter Ward, the encounter between the two women brilliant novel. and so is he. grows from complicity to suddenly unveiled tensions.. Source: [email protected] 22 23 Up and Away Ebb and Flow Rough The Invisible Boy Irish Documentary Irish Documentary Irish Fiction Shorts 1 Irish Fiction Shorts 2 Shorts 1 Shorts 2 Gate Cinema / Oct 9th / 11.30am / 77 mins Gate Cinema / Oct 10th / 3.45pm / 77 mins
Gate Cinema / Oct 8th / 3.45am / 71 mins Gate Cinema / Oct 9th / 3.45pm / 70 mins Snag Clara’s Room Steve Woods / Ireland / 2019 / 1 min Pippa Molony / Ireland / 2020 / 3 mins Pushing Irish dance a bit futher. Clara’s bedroom is the starting point for a mosaic of moments, Source: [email protected] to provide a glimpse of the life contained therein. Source: [email protected] Up & Away James Joyce: Framed in Cork Veronika’s Jamie Goldrick / Ireland / 2019 / 15 mins 22 secs Marcella O’Connor / Ireland / 2020 / 5 mins 13 secs Ais Brady / Ireland / 2020 / 3 mins Time Slips Away A short documentary on the 1973 IRA Mountjoy Helicopter Following Portrait of the Artist, Flicka Small tracks down James An intimate and abstract piece which journeys with a male Richard Keane / Ireland / 2019 / 4 mins Escape told through the eyes for four men who were in the Joyce’s family connections in Cork. character as he explores his identity. An old married couple try to remember the past as they prepare prison that day, two Wardens and two Republican prisoners Source: [email protected] [email protected] to face an uncertain future. Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] Do You Remember? Spread The Wings 20 Yards From a Crow Stephen Clarke Dunne / Ireland / 2020 / 5 mins 11 secs Fathoms Alice McDowell / Ireland / 2019 / 11 mins 35 secs Al Butler / Ireland / 2020 / 10 mins 10 secs Two apparently young men reminisce about the good old Miles Davis Murphy / Ireland / 2020 / 5 mins 30 secs Sisters Maggie and Nora from the Irish Traveller community A look at the world of the crows around us. days. Told through imagery, a tempestuous relationship between a travel back to Connemara every summer to rekindle their Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] father and son unfolds over a lifetime. connection with the land. Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] Ebb And Flow Break Us Alice Ward / Ireland / 2020 / 12 mins 55 secs Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair / Ireland / 2019 / 9 mins 13 secs A Sense Of Joy Bill O’Dea: Fungophilic The flm features three fearless females and their love for surfng “Mark and Sophie plan to rob a post offce but as things go Roisín Jones / Ireland / 2019 / 6 mins 25 secs Al Butler / Ireland / 2019 / 5 mins 18 secs off the west coast of Ireland. awry, they each discover what they’re really made of… A cantankerous musician endeavours to break a magical curse Irish Mushroom expert Bill O’Dea brings us into the seemingly Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] by passing on a sense of joy to others; something which doesn’t infnite world of Mushrooms and explains their profound come naturally to him. impact on the world we live in. Tumbling Towards Home The Bridge Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected] Imelda O’Reilly / Ireland / 2020 / 14 mins Mark Smyth / Ireland / 2019 / 14 mins 57 secs A coming-of-age story of Malcolm Adams, an Irish immigrant After the death of his parents a young man must choose Looking For Warm for Winter who moves to New York in 1989 to study acting, working through between a bright future in Canada and returning to care for Cian Desmond / Ireland / 2019 / 5 mins 35 secs Matgorzata Kawolczwk-Nentwig / Ireland / 2020 / 8 mins 34 the grief from the loss of his mother and his friend Philip Seymour his estranged brother in Ireland. In a world where love is revealed by glowing rings, a lonely secs Hoffman. young woman struggles to fll what’s missing in her life. She With the homeless crisis escalating in Dublin, one man’s Source: [email protected] Cost You Nothing discovers that love is not as simple as she had thought. simple gesture of kindness causes controversy, dividing Patricia Kelly / Ireland / 2020 / 10 mins 15 secs Source: [email protected] opinions and causing a media frenzy... Confnement A mother’s fractious relationship with her son disintegrates Source: [email protected] Trish McAdam / Ireland / 2019 / 30 mins when she cannot accept the man he has become. Breaking Up A fragmented journey, across 500 years, through the Source: [email protected] Terry McMahon / Ireland / 2019 / 4 mins 31 secs Miss Smith architectural, psychological and socio-political changes in the What if a victim is addicted to an abuser? What if the abuser Martin Dwan / Ireland / 2019 / 12 mins 52 secs confned space of Dublin’s Henrietta Street. The Plait isn’t an abuser and the victim isn’t a victim? What if we peek A traumatic event from childhood is recalled a lifetime later. Source: [email protected] Chiara Viale / Ireland / 2020 / 4 mins 23 secs behind the closed doors of that relationship? Source: [email protected] A young girl must let go of her feelings for a much older man, Source: [email protected] learning that overcoming rejection and loving herself is part Dear Little Sophia of growing up. Smoulder Paddy Hayes / Ireland / 2020 / 17 mins Source: [email protected] Emma Brennan / Ireland / 2019 / 9 mins 54secs Sophia writes a letter to her former self in an effort to make Dublin, 2018. In a milieu of ‘Occupy’-style political protest, two sense of her life-long abuse at the hands of her father. Rough broken people connect. Source: [email protected] Adam Patterson, Declan Lawn / Ireland / 2020 / 13:49 Source: [email protected] In contemporary Belfast a young man faces retribution for the transgressions of his beloved dog. Cease Source: [email protected] Aisling O’Regan Sargent / Ireland / 2020 / 15 mins Patti and Trish on the eve of their goodbye before college, attend Christy a house party. The events of that night put their friendship to the Brendan Canty / Ireland / 2019 / 14 mins 55 secs ultimate test. A 16-year-old school-dropout interviews for a job, but when Source: [email protected] he’s let down by his brother he lashes back and looks to his friends for support. The Invisible Boy Source: [email protected] James Fitzgerald / Ireland / 2020 / 20 mins 32 secs When a young girl goes missing in a small town, a troubled fsherman is forced to confront the past that destroyed his family. Source: [email protected] 24 25 Mother The Emergency Da Yie Scarlet Red Homemade: World Shorts 1 World Shorts 2 Lockdown Stories
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Elsa Hunting This programme is a fascinating document on life during lockdown. With creativity (and cinematic cleverness) the flmmakers Jen Nee Lim / Singapore / 2019 / 9 mins Hauazkena Taldea , Begoña Vicario / Spain / 2020 / 4 mins transcend the limitations of social distancing and other COVID restrictions. Here you see drama, comedy, horror, documentary, 6-year old Stanley has a year left to be Disney’s Queen Elsa to his In 1969, artist Rafael Ruiz Balerdi made the short animated flm imaginative and revelatory flms about what life was/is like in such times. heart’s content, before formal education starts. ‘Homage to Tarzan’. We accept Balerdi’s aesthetic but step away from the colonial perspective of the flms that inspired With flms by Ladj Ly (Les Misérables), France, Nadia Tass (Malcolm), Australia, John Smith (Girl Chewing Gum) UK, and many Irish Diffcult that work to depict the harshness of our own reality. flmmakers. Tal Amiran / England / 2020 / 14 mins Under Paris’ glittering Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese Twice migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument, far from John Smith / England / 2020 / 2 mins Together | Apart Homemade their loved ones. The artist follows the British government’s advice while self- Gerard Walsh / Ireland / 2020 / 3 mins / essay Ly Ladj / France / 2020 / 6 mins 21 secs / drama doc isolating at home during the COVID-19 lockdown. A cinematic document from a long time ago, from the start of Buzz sends a drone to the skies of Montfermeil and captures In Her Boots the lockdown in Ireland. the contrasts caused by the lockdown in France, in a nod to the Kathrin Steinbacher / Austria / 2019 / Scarlet Red Source: [email protected] 2019 flm Les Misérables. When it comes to a pair of tried and true boots worn on Toon Loenders / Belgium / 2020 / 13 mins Source: [email protected] innumerable trails, such a possession can also provide a familiar To protect themselves from an outside world in crisis, a king Browsing History foothold and his followers have withdrawn to a safe, secure castle. He Myles Horgan / United Kingdom / 2020 / 1 min 30 secs / comedy Mother has provided all means of entertainment: an orchestra plays Some footage was found on Gerry’s camera laptop. It showed Zoe Brennan-Whitmore / Ireland / 2020 / 6 mins 34 secs / the music, a ballerina dances, a fool jokes and a pope prays. one way he tried to manage stress during lockdown. But he experimental What We Still Can Do should have cleared his browsing history. Following the voices of four new and expectant mothers, Nora Ananyan / Hungary / 2019 / 14 mins The Edge of Town Source: [email protected] Mother is a moving scrapbook that explores their experiences A gentle meditative touch on the relationship between mother Daria Kasperek / Poland / 2019 / 14 mins of pregnancy and new life in isolation during Covid-19. and daughter. The act of letting go of each other is opening an On the edge of a town one can reach the places which are Isolation Restaurant Source: [email protected] infnite space of love and appreciation – the little things they can not frequently visited. On the edge of the town there is a forest. Nadia Tass / Australia / 2020 / 6 mins / comedy do together. During the depths of quarantine, you’re cordially invited to Tin Pigeons: Closer Ecorce/ Peel Pascale’s Trattoria, a charming Italian restaurant nestled in the Tommy Creagh / Ireland / 2020 / 3 mins 12 secs / music promo Samuel Patthey, Silvain Monney / Switzerland / 2020 / 15 heart of a suburban living room. Stuck in isolation, an eccentric man fghts lethargy and Postcards From The End Of The World mins Source: [email protected] boredom through imagination and music. Produced entirely Konstantinos Antonopoulos / Greece / 2019 / 23 mins In a hidden place, the daily routine of a retirement home in lockdown. Trapped in a dull family vacation, Dimitra, Dimitris and their two unfolds, as time seems to stand still. The pencilled residents Colour In Isolation Source: [email protected] daughters will have to fnd a way out, when confronted with the come to life on paper. Ailill Martin / Ireland / 2020 / 3 mins / experimental unexpected end of the world. With yellow becoming so closely associated with Covid-19 the Lesley & Brendan (A Dublin Love Story) Nestor flm refects on the colours around us and the different meanings Greg Byrne / Ireland / 2020 / 6 mins 33 secs / documentary Da Yie João Gonzalez / Portugal, UK / 2019 / 6 mins they take on during lockdown. The flmmaker’s parents speak candidly about how they frst Anthony Nti / Ghana / 2020 / 20 mins Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours Source: [email protected] came to meet at a Dublin disco back in 1978 and the love that A foreigner in Ghana gets an assignment from his gang to fnd lives in an unstable houseboat, which never stops oscillating. grew between them. kids for a risky job that will take place later that evening. While The Emergency Source: [email protected] spending the day with two energetic children, he starts to The Year Of The Robot John Corcoran / Ireland / 2020 / 9 mins 12 secs / drama question how it will affect their lives. Yves Gellie / France / 2019 / 28 mins A curious young girl stumbles upon a life-story with uncanny Covid Éire What happens when people and machines meet? For two similarities to her own. Michael Keane / Ireland / 2020 / 4 mins 49 secs / drama years, flmmaker Yves Gellie visited hospital patients and Source: [email protected] A young Irish person who contracted the COVID-19 takes a nursing home residents in France and Belgium to flm their train ride while telling the story of how his life mentally and encounters with a robot. The modest table-top robot with Breakdown physically unravelled. a childish voice and friendly blinking eyes elicits responses Ingrid Machado / Ireland / 2020 / 2 mins 40 secs /drama Source: [email protected] ranging from curiosity to tenderness, trust or irritation, and The alter ego of a stressed and isolated man intervenes to help sometimes slight confusion— on both sides. him through the lockdown. Quarantine Mood Source: [email protected] Marinelli Alessandro / Italy / 2020 / 12 mins 30 secs / documentary Twice The flm documents real life scenes during quarantine in Rome, John Smith / England / 2020/ 2 mins 32 secs / experimental looking for the beauty and poetry of reality. A flm about people, The artist follows the British government’s advice while self- about life that doesn’t stop and needs to manifest itself in isolating at home during the COVID-19 lockdown. every situation. Source: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
A Mother’s Love Adam H Stewart / Ireland / 2020 / 5 mins / horror A frst time mother will do anything to make her infant girl happy. Source: [email protected] 26 27 J’Ador Heat Death of the Universe Freeze Frame The Little Soul World Shorts 3 World Shorts 4 World Shorts 5 World Shorts 6
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Don’t Kiss.Mov Something To Remember Freeze Frame Expo Film (this flm is my memory) Carl Olsson / Sweden / 2020 / 8 mins Niki Lindroth von Bahr / Sweden / 2019 / 5 mins Soetkin Verstegen / Belgium / 2020 / 5 mins Penny McCann / Canada / 2020 / 9 mins Two men engaged in a gaze magnetic enough to lock their A lullaby before the great disaster. Two pigeons visit a zoo Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo ’67 in Montreal, lips and pull them to stand. What does this kiss serve? Is it without animals, a snail measures his blood pressure at the the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never passion, connection, expression, obligation? doctor, and in the CERN laboratory something has gone terribly the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques wrong .Six moments from our age, like memories of the world we stillness. coalesce to transform the mythic landscape into a sublime Lake On The Mountain leave behind. expanse of disintegrated memory. Kuo Yu-Chen / Taiwan / 2020 / 21 mins A Month Of Single Frames The family relationship is like the mist, you can only see but Best Possible Life Lynne Sachs / USA / 2020 / 14 mins you can’t touch it. This ship that carries memory looks like it Ville Hakonen, Jussi Sandhu / Finland / 2020 / 13 mins In 1998, flmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist The Little Soul sails in the river of life and death. It’s party time! Melancholic Finns in search of happiness. residency in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The shack had no Barbara Rupik / Poland / 2019 / 9 mins running water or electricity. While there, she shot 16mm flm, A dead body became stuck by a riverbank. Its decaying J’Ador Sh_t Happens recorded sounds and kept a journal. In 2018, Barbara began her insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Simone Bozzelli / Italy / 2020 / 16mins Michaela Mihályi, David Štumpf / Czech Republic / 2019 / 13 own process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on Rome. Claudio is 15 years-old. Someone is writing “J’ador” on mins gave all of her images, sounds and writing from the residency the riverbank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a his forehead because he smells like a little girl. The caretaker exhausted by everything, his frustrated wife and to flmmaker Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a flm with the journey through the post-mortem land. one totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to material. Drifting absurd events. Hanxiong Bo / China / 2020 / 16 mins Sogni al campo Dogs Barking At Birds Disguised as a girl growing up during the time of one-child Heat Death Of The Universe Magda Guidi, Mara Cerri / France / 2020 / 8 mins Leonor Teles / Portugal / 2019 / 20 mins policy in China, Yan struggles with the conservative world Sahin Kureta / Turkey / 2019 / 5 mins A boy looks for his cat along a river. He will not fnd it. The child is School is over and there’s a bustle in the air. In Porto, tourists around him now. Drifting in his Dad’s old taxi becomes his As we grow older, we strive for order, stability, and equilibrium afraid, he enters a forest of symbols and memories. He grows up. fll up the streets and cafés. The old and decadent are now way of expressing feelings. in our lives, sometimes at the expense of change, progress, and His illusions of children dissolve and mingle with the landscape. highlights of the city’s gentrifcation. Vicente moves around motion. This couple, so afraid of losing the order and structure town on his bike, watching the urban landscape modify day All The Fires The Fire they have built into their lives, they are now unable to move a Through the felds by day. The town is no longer the same, the world is changing Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis / Greece / 24 mins fnger. Kamile Milasiute / Lithuania / 2019 / 15 mins and so is he. Men set birds free on the mountains. Two grieving, estranged Three women – a mother and two daughters – decide to spend brothers try their marksmanship together with their sons. It’ I Feel Your Eyes the last summer weekend together in a remote village. As soon Heart Of Gold s the hunting season. Can a bird’ s heart stop in the sky with Grégoire Verbeke / Belgium / 2019 / 25 mins as they leave the city, one confict follows another, forcing them Heart of Gold / Simon Filliot / France / 2020 / 12 mins no bullets coming through its body? As the sun rises above a forgotten pyramid, Mahmoud saddles to confront themselves and to accept this bond for what it truly For her son, a poor young mother is forced to sell her organs his horse Asefa besides a desert race track. This is how they is. to a sick old woman. Flesh, for gold. Little by little, necessity *please note that ‘Thorax’ contains strobing images prepare for their daily training. Friday, all eyes will be on them. gives way to the lure of gain. Mahmoud senses the fear inside him. Letters From Silivri Thorax Adrian Figueroa / Turkey, Germany / 2019 / 15mins Siegfried A. Fruhauf / Austria / 2019 / 8 mins The Beauty Drawing on letters of the Turkish philanthropist and public Acid Rain Rattling, diamond shaped refractions of light: a projector? Pascal Schelbli / Germany / 2019 / 4 mins intellectual Osman Kavala to document a timeline of his Tomek Popakul / Poland / 2019 / 26 mins Fluorescent tubes? What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? Take a deep imprisonment. By separating voice and image the flm intends Young runs away from her depressing hometown. Her early It turns out to be more like a human machine the flmmaker breath and dive into a world of bizarre creatures and eerily to create an echo chamber that allows audiences to listen more enthusiasm about the hitchhike falls when she fnds herself is dissecting with a fne surgical blade. beautiful landscapes. carefully to Kavalas letters, while at the same time place his in the city outskirts in the middle of the night. At the bridge words in context to a civil society. she meets a fgure balancing unsafely on the guardrail. That’s California On Fire how she meets Skinny – a kind of unstable weirdo. Jeff Frost / USA / 2020 / 24 mins Voragine 31 Artist Jeff Frost trained as a frefghter, gained full access to more Colombia / 2020 / 7 mins Dummy than 70 wildfres, and shot over 350,000 photos from 2014 to Faced with contemporary fear, 31 animated flm artists immersed Laurynas Bareisa / Lithuania / 2020 / 13 mins 2019. Using time, sound, and the effects of climate change as a themselves in the images of the book ‘La Vorágine’ by José Dummy’ revolves around a crime scene being reenacted with backdrop to examine loss. Eustasio Rivera, and as an exquisite corpse, they interpreted their a human-size doll – dummy. Six investigators, consisting of own jungle to honour this powerful novel. solely one woman called Miglé, are interrogating a criminal in the forest. The perpetrator Thomas traces back a story of Ward’s Henna Party the day he raped a woman in the very same woods.This flm’s Morad Mostafa / Egypt / 2020 / 22 mins powerful message is delivered within a seemingly simple Halima, a Sudanese henna painter goes to Basma’s, a young structure: the story unfolds in one setting and at the given Egyptian bride to prepare her for her wedding: under the eyes moment. of her daughter Ward, the encounter between the two women grows from complicity to suddenly unveiled tensions.
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Sample-Studios TACTIC Visual Arts Programme Maximising the Audience: presents The Movements, a residency and audio visual exhibition of work by Nellie Corbett Practical Steps to ensuring your and Trevor Boyle in association with IndieCork Festival 2020. flm has a successful life Date: October 14th 10 am to 11.30am The Movements is a collaborative audio visual Carey Fitzgerald piece which will be presented in The Lord Mayor's Pavilion. The work is inspired by what is unique It’s a noisy market place out there. Thousands of shorts flms and to the mediums of sound and video - the ability independent features and documentaries are submitted to to capture movements, and the potential to festivals each year. Some are heard, most are drowned out in the manipulate them. noise. Wrath Maelle From September 21st to October 17th 2020 the What can flmmakers do to ensure that they, and their production artists will host a series of socially distanced team, get the results their production deserves? How to have a Dark Green: Manifestations of Fear: public workshops in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion successful festival life? How to get distribution and sales? and operate an open studio via webcam. Irish Horror Shorts International Horror Shorts Workshop participants are invited to build This webinar, will give practical advice on steps to reaching your experimental (non)musical instruments and flm’s intended audience and thereby helping you to establish a visitors are encouraged to view the space, by flmmaking career. appointment, with the artistsThese elements of public participation will be used to generate The Festival Journey Gate Cinema / Oct 11th / 6pm / 84 mins IndieCork Online / 51 mins further content as the residency progresses and edited into an collaborative audio visual piece IndieCork Co-Directors and, most recently, founders of the Green by the artists which will be exhibited in The Lord Ray Film Agency, Úna Feely and Mick Hannigan look at practical Mayor’s Pavilion. steps flmmakers can take to help their flms have a successful Somewhere Between Fear and Anxiety festival life. S. H. Bean / Ireland / 2020 / 3 mins 49 secs Opening Times: (by appointment only) Every artist includes a little, or sometimes a lot, of themselves Lord Mayors Pavilion, Fitzgerald Park, Cork Mick will look at the strategy of Audience Design and how a flm can in their works of art… attract, in a noisy marketplace, the attention of the target audience, This programme showcases four horrifying short flms Source: [email protected] and advise on constructing a persuasive presentation for festival ranging from the fear of humankind, to the terror of Workshops - Thursday 24 October 2020 , 11am- programmers and buyers. Afterimage technology. While exploring some of the ways in which 12.30pm & 2pm-3.30pm Ross O’Hara / Ireland / 2020 / 10 mins 24 secs danger can be exposed to us in our everyday lives, it also Úna will address the importance of a festival strategy, advise on the A young woman, in the wake of her boyfriend’s death, is forced asks the viewer to question their own awareness of the Open Studio - Daily 21 Sept -2 October 2020 assets which are required to infuence a positive festival decision, to relive the dark nature of their relationship when his old potential danger they may encounter. camera begins to torment her. on using festival success to advance your career. Source: [email protected] - Natasha Marshall, Programmer Exhibition - 6-17 October 2020, Wednesday- www.greenrayflmagency.com Follow Saturday Stephen Broekhuizen / Ireland / 2020 / 5 mins 26 secs The Distribution Journey A short tale of obsession. To book, email: [email protected] Source: [email protected] Carey Fitzgerald, of Silver Mountain The Bloodbath For more information Productions, has a long and successful Wrath Emmanuel Hamon, Gilles Lerous / France / 2020 / 20 mins Suri Grennell / Ireland / 2019 / 9mins 5 secs The four members of the gothic metal group The Bloodbath, their @tacticart | @samplestudios track-record in flm and television At the precipice of womanhood and plagued with foreboding manager and a biker are the prey of a psychopathic killer in the [email protected] production, in distribution and global sales. dreams, Maria must confront the mistrust of her family as a forest who, after killing them, preserves the bodies. But for what She will guide participants through the strange epidemic sweeps through Ireland. purpose? stages of a successful distribution journey, Source: [email protected] a journey which begins at the concept stage. The Early House A Wolf In The House Derek O’Connor / Ireland / 2020 / 11 mins 58 secs Yann de Montero, Sony Alvarez / France / 2020 / 4 mins Carey will give practical guidance on Following his father’s unusual and sudden death, Glen is on a A mother has her own methods of teaching her child courage. Marketing Tools and on the Deliverables mission to go after those responsible. which need to be in the flmmaker’s Source: [email protected] armoury to ensure a rewarding outcome. Maelle Pulse Jordi Gueyard / France / 2020 / 20 mins www.silvermountainproductions.tv Sean Doupe / Ireland / 2020 / 4 mins 50 secs At dusk, a strange girl walks alone along an endless road in a A young man, plagued by a recurring nightmare, fnds the key wide deserted landscape. A car passes by. On board, a man who to a room which may hold the answers he hoped never to offers to drive her to her destination. Attendance is by registration and costs €5. fnd. Source: [email protected] To register, email [email protected] with ‘Webinar’ in the subject Zwart line. To register, email [email protected] with ‘Webinar’ in the Nymph Tom Geraedts / The Netherlands / 7 mins subject line. Caoimhin Gaughan Coffey / Ireland / 2020 / 14 mins 49 secs When the slightly naïve Ronnie gives up a tad too much personal When betrayal stalks their camping trip, three friends information during verifcation questions on his computer, he unwittingly conjure up the wild, elemental spirits of vengeful receives a fully customized invitation from his OS in return. Nature, with horrifying consequences. Euro Connection Source: [email protected] Euro Connection is a co-production forum designed for European producers, broadcasters, distributors and Hunger fnancial backers looking for international co-production partners or projects.Euro Connection brings together: Mark Dollard / Ireland / 2020 / 9 mins 20 secs A heron addict is pursued by a menacing fgure. • 14 European projects that are selected for pitching Source: [email protected] • A dozen producers invited as part of the Producers Focus Bring Back Laura • An overall industry audience of 150 producers and production partners from Europe Rebekah Davis / Ireland / 2020 / 13 mins 25 secs An awkward romantic attempts to bring his dead girlfriend Euro Connection happens annually at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market. If you back to life, with the help of a celebrity occultist. are interesting in entering your project for the competitive Irish nomination please contact [email protected]. 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