Aemi – Spring Newsletter: New Opportunities For Film Artists, Upcoming Events, Etc.

Published date: 30 Apr 2024

 

Hello there,

We hope this finds you well as spring arrives and summer is finally in sight.

We at aemi have been busy the last few months reconfiguring our artist supports programme to better support artists and offer clear pathways for development. The next stage in this is the announcement of our new Tier 2 Artist Support Programme: Developing Your Practice as a Film Artist.

This programme works towards developing a more focused career support network and will be most appropriate for artists who have a defined plan of the work they plan to make and/or have works in progress or completed. Successful applicants will generally have met with aemi previously for a one-on-one Artist Support session (Tier 1).

Our goals with this programme are:
-To assist you in developing your professional network.
-To help you secure further career opportunities.
-To help you to foster and build confidence in your practice and motivate you to realise your ambitions as a filmmaker.
-To help you to expand the scope of your practice through supportive critical engagement with your work in suitable environments.

TIER 2 DEVELOPING YOUR PRACTICE AS A FILM ARTIST will give successful applicants access to:

-aemi Rough Cut Project Development workshops
-Ongoing Individuated aemi Mentorship
-External Mentorship Opportunities
-Access to workshops, masterclasses, and information sessions
-Additional peer to peer supports

A select number of artists will be selected by a panel, including an independent adjudicator, to take part in this year long programme. If you are interested and have further questions email [email protected]

We actively encourage filmmakers and artists who identify as being from under represented/marginalised communities to participate in the programme. Particular consideration will be given to recent migrants and to those filmmakers and artists falling under the protected grounds of the Equal Status Act laid out by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. To fit the criteria, filmmakers and artists must live in Ireland.

Interested applicants can email [email protected] with a completed Tier 2 Application Form by end of day Wednesday 15th May.

OTHER RECENT AEMI EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

The first of three Rough Cut events that aemi will present across 2024, took place on January 31st in Studio 6 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Film artists Keira Greene and Deirdre O’Mahony presented work at Rough Cut on January 31st and Mark O’Gorman, Visual Arts Manager at The Complex was invited to lead the responses to both projects. In February we hosted our annual free, in-person, film funding information clinic with the Arts Council at the Goethe Institut Dublin. Recordings of  Fionnuala Sweeney (Head of Film & Architecture for the Arts Council) and Alice Butler & Daniel Fitzpatrick’s presentations are available to listen to HERE. In March aemi & East Asia Film Festival Ireland were delighted to partner once again to bring Irish artist film directly into conversation with East Asian cinema. In March we were also thrilled to welcome film programmer, writer and Shasha Movies founder Róisín Tapponi (pictured below) to introduce Films From Palestine at the IFI Dublin. This programme was curated by Shasha Movies, an independent streaming service for South-West Asian and North African (SWANA) cinema founded by Róisín Tapponi, an Assyrian Iraqi & Irish film programmer, writer and PhD scholar.

To coincide with the exhibition The necessity of ruins (Films 2012-2023) at Composite, Melbourne, artist Gavin Murphy selected film works by four Irish artists for a special screening and artists’ talk presented in collaboration with aemi and Pallas Projects. Featuring works by Anne Maree Barry, Fiona Hallinan, Eva George Richardson McCrea, and Dennis McNulty. The online artist’s talk (pictured below) was moderated by Alice Butler, co-director aemi on April 17th.

That’s it from us for now, we hope to see some of you at screenings and events soon. If you are interested in applying for our Tier 2 programme please do and also feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.

all of our best wishes,

Alice Butler and Daniel Fitzpatrick
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Selected Recommendations and Upcoming aemi events

aemi’s 2024 touring programme ‘Spirit Messages’ had its Dublin debut as a cinema event + Q&A, with featured artists Ross McClean, Niall Cullen and Amanda Rice, at a sold-out Cinema 2 screening at IFI Dublin on Monday 22nd April @ 18:30.
‘Spirit Messages’ also screens as an installation at The Model in Sligo until May 4th.

There will also be a free screening of the programme at STARLING in Limerick on Friday 26th at 6pm. We hope to meet you at the ‘Spirit Messages’ screenings over the coming months. Stay in touch as we announce more opportunities to encounter the aemi 2024 touring programme across Ireland.

We highly recommend a visit to Lisa Freeman’s exhibition of Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 22nd March – 19th May. Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss is commissioned by aemi and Sirius Art Centre, Cobh, and supported by Kildare County Council. It premiered at Cork International Film Festival (2023) and will be exhibited at Sirius Art Centre in summer 2024. The exhibition at TBG+S presents a deconstructed version of the film for an installation setting.

Su Friedrich’s film ‘Damned If You Don’t’ (1987) screening at Hugh Lane. A one-off screening of Su Friedrich‘s beautiful and subversive tale Damned If You Don’t (1987, 42 minutes). Combining personal narratives with footage from the 1947 British drama Black Narcissus and excerpts from the visions of Sister Benedetta Carlini and her condemnation for lesbianism in 17th century Tuscany, the film masterfully blends narrative styles and symbolic structures in striking and sensual chiaroscuro scenes, meticulously shot and edited by Friedrich in black and white 16mm film.The screening will be preceded by an introduction and followed by a conversation facilitated by artist and filmmaker Helena Gouveia Monteiro.

We also highly recommend a visit to The Quickening, a powerful new artwork by ground-breaking artist Deirdre O’Mahony at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art 29th March – 23rd June. Bringing together urgent conversations, original music and moving image, The Quickening responds to issues facing farming, food production and consumption, in the face of present ecological and climate crises.

Selected upcoming opportunities for film artists

CIFF Young (Film) Programmers 2024: Deadline Friday, 19th April, 2024

Bloomsday Film Festival: Deadline Wednesday 1st May, 2024 – promo code with 20% off to all submitters (BFFPROMOEF2024)

The Slow Film Festival Early bird Deadline February 16th 2024, First Deadline March 15th 2024, Second Deadline May 3rd 2024, Third Deadline June 14th 2024, Final Deadline July 12th 2024

The 69th Cork International Film Festival Submission Deadlines 2024: Early Bird Deadline – Friday March 9th 2024, Regular Deadline Friday May 17th 2024

Check out these and other opportunities and deadlines here.

IN FOCUS: SARAH BROWNE – BUTTERCUP at SIRIUS ARTS CENTRE

We would highly recommend a visit to Sarah Browne’s exhibition Buttercup at Sirius Arts Centre 13th April – 8th June. The exhibition Buttercup features a newly created film of the same title, realized in collaboration with David Donohoe, Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Elaine Lillian Joseph, Daniel Hughes and disabled consultants.

There is also an accompanying EVENT this Saturday with Sarah Hayden titled ‘as if […] wearing anklesocks. Sarah Hayden’s text as if […] wearing anklesocks is a long-form poem, responding to the film Buttercup by Sarah Browne. For this event Hayden reads the text and engages in a conversation with Browne that explores what it means to invite a response, the purpose of art writing and the lines between essays and poems.

SIRIUS Saturday, 27 April
3pm: screening of Buttercup, captioned
3:30pm: reading by Sarah Hayden, captioned
4-5pm conversation, live-captioned
Free; no booking required

aemi is funded by The Arts Council