aemi at Cork International Film Festival 2023

Published date: 06 Nov 2023

aemi is delighted to announce their programme for CIFF 2023:

We at aemi are of course delighted to be working again this year with Cork International Film Festival. Our programme screens as part of Parallax, a strand that focuses on the Festival’s long-running interest in artist film and experimental approaches. As always we continue to be impressed with CIFF’s commitment to creating space and a platform for this area of practice. We are particularly excited this year that we will be joined at the festival by the celebrated and prolific filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson. Kevin will give a free masterclass at the festival on Saturday 18th. We will also screen a selection of Kevin’s films on Sunday the 19th.

Featured artists in aemi’s programme this year include Jamie Crewe, Lisa Freeman, Laida Lertxundi, Niall Cullen, Jodie Mack, Kevin Jerome Everson, Ross McClean, Luis Arnías, and Amanda Rice.

Highlights of the programme include the masterclass with acclaimed filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, the premiere of the aemi SIRIUS Commission 2023 by artist Lisa Freeman, and the launch of Spirit Messages, aemi’s new touring programme.

Below is a short summary of what’s coming up in Cork:

Saturday 18th November/ 13:00 / Sirius Arts Centre

aemi Experimental Shorts: A Moment Between

Three experimental works curated by aemi for Cork International Film Festival 2023 including the world premiere of Lisa Freeman’s Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss produced as part of the aemi/SIRIUS Film Commission 2024. Alongside that are the grabbed, interstitial moments of Laida Lertxundi and Ren Ebel’s In a Nearby Field and a singalong psychedelic interpersonal journey by way of Jodie Mack’s epic Dusty Stacks of Mom.

Saturday 18 November / 15:00 / Sirius Arts Centre

Kevin Jerome Everson Masterclass

aemi’s international artist in focus at CIFF is the acclaimed and prolific filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson. This masterclass offers audiences an in-depth introduction to the artist’s influences and methodology. Having been trained in photography and engaged also in printmaking and sculpture, before turning to the medium of analog film in the late 1990’s, Everson has carried over the approach of creating bodies of work shaped around particular formal devices within his filmmaking practice. Here he will discuss the processes, procedures and materials used in his moving image practice over the past two decades. He will also discuss recurring subjects, themes and formal strategies represented in the work.

Sunday 19 November / 10:45 / Triskel Arts Centre

aemi Artist in Focus shorts programme: Kevin Jerome Everson

A programme of short works by the acclaimed filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, aemi’s international artist-in-focus at CIFF 2023.

The screening programme will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Sunday 19 November / 20:30 / Triskel Arts Centre

aemi @ CIFF: Spirit Messages

Curated by aemi for CIFF 2024 ‘Spirit Messages’ is an opportunity to spotlight some truly exciting moving image works by a range of Irish and international filmmakers. The programme includes premieres of three new Irish works by Amanda Rice, Niall Cullen and Ross McClean alongside works by artists Jamie Crewe, Luis Arnias, and Dan Guthrie. aemi are excited to have their ‘Spirit Messages’ programme screen for the first time at CIFF before it begins an extensive national and international tour in 2024.

aemi’s activities are funded by The Arts Council and these programmes upcoming in Cork are made possible with the support and partnerships of Cork International Film Festival, and Sirius Arts Centre

Hope to see many of you in Cork, and if you have any questions about any of the programmes above, email us at [email protected]

All images courtesy of the artists.