Masterclasses, Workshops, professional development & training programmes

aemi regularly hosts artist led practice-focused masterclasses, workshops and information sessions with filmmakers and artists.

Previous filmmakers who have provided practical insight into their practice include Kevin Jerome Everson, Fern Silva, Lynne Sachs, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Donal Foreman, Frank Sweeney, Venus Patel, Myrid Carten.

Online Resources

Audio recording of Arts Council Film Funding Clinic & Career Interview with film artist Tadhg O’Sullivan, hosted by AEMI
This free event gave invaluable insight into the Arts Council’s funding opportunities for film artists as well as a personal account from Tadhg O’Sullivan on how Arts Council support has enabled him to develop his career as a film artist.

To listen to the audio recording on YouTube visit here

To listen to the audio recording on SoundCloud visit here

PAST Artist Support events & workshops

aemi @ CIFF: Kevin Jerome Everson Masterclass

aemi’s international artist in focus at CIFF 2023 was the acclaimed and prolific filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson. This masterclass offered 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 discussed the processes, procedures and materials used in his moving image practice over the past two decades. He also discussed the recurring subjects, themes and formal strategies represented in the work.

Arts Council Film Funding Clinic & Career Interview with film artist Tadhg O’Sullivan, hosted by AEMI

Free in-person presentation from The Arts Council on artist film funding + career interview with filmmaker Tadhg O’Sullivan
Friday 20th January 12pm-3pm, Goethe-Institut Ireland
More info on this Film Funding Information Clinic

aemi & Mayo County Council: Focus on Artist Film with Venus Patel
A free online event for film artists based in Mayo featuring a presentation and discussion with award-winning filmmaker Venus Patel
Monday 28 November 2022, 11am – 1pm
More info on the event with Mayo County Council and Venus Patel

aemi @ CIFF: Masterclass with Filmmaker Fern Silva ‘Environment Awareness’
Designed for participants interested in social and environmental issues, reportage, travelogue, and other forms of non-fiction art making, this practical workshop will be led by aemi’s Artist-in-Focus Fern Silva at Cork International Film Festival 2022. ‘Environment Awareness’ will be a day-long masterclass at Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh on Friday 18th Nov, 11:30am – 4pm. Places are limited, please contact [email protected] to book a place.
More info on the masterclass with Fern Silva

aemi Online Event | Building a Practice in Artist Film: info session for graduating students
A free event designed for graduating students and recent graduates interested in working with artist film. Sessions will be led by The Arts Council Film department, film artists Myrid Carten & Frank Sweeney, and aemi Co-Directors, covering topics such as applying for funding for the first time, and what supports are available after graduating.
Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10am – 1pm
More info here

aemi Online Event | Opportunities for Film Artists: Funding and Access
Two distinct sessions for artists working with the moving image: Arts Council Film Funding Clinic, and a discussion with writer, researcher and programmer Sarah Hayden on access and the moving image
Friday 21 January 2022, 10am – 12:30pm
More info here

aemi @ CIFF: Workshop with Lynne Sachs
Day Residue: A Film-Making Workshop on the Every Day
11am – 4pm Tuesday 9 November 2021, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
More info here

aemi Online Event | Funding Opportunities for Film Artists 
A day-long information clinic looking at funding opportunities, and approaches to funding, for film artists
Friday 16 April 2021
More info here

A photo of an Interview with film artist Tadhg O’Sullivan. He is seated and turned slightly away from the camera to his right. He is speaking into a microphone, which he holds in his right hand, and is gesturing with his left hand. He has light skin, dark hair, a dark beard, and wears a dark blue wollen jumper. He is cropped out of the image from the waist down. There is a cream wall behind him and a large window behind him to his right.
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A colour headshot of Frank Sweeney, one of the film artists who will speak at aemi's upcoming online event 'Building a Practice in Artist Film'. Frank is a white man with short curly brown hair, wearing a black jumper. He is smiling and is sitting in front of a blank grey wall, light shines in from one side. The photograph is a polaroid and a white border frames the image.
DISSOLUTIONS 2024: LANDSCAPE PLUS: Practical 16mm film workshop with filmmaker Laida Lertxundi

Taking place from 2pm to 5pm on Friday September 6th, this practical workshop will provide a limited number of…

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: LANDSCAPE PLUS: Practical 16mm film workshop with filmmaker Laida Lertxundi
aemi @ CIFF: Workshop with Lynne Sachs

We are really excited to work with aemi’s Artist in Focus Lynne Sachs to deliver a workshop as part…

aemi @ CIFF: Workshop with Lynne Sachs
aemi @ CIFF: Masterclass with Filmmaker Fern Silva ‘Environment Awareness’

A free masterclass with Fern Silva, aemi’s ‘international artist in focus’ for the 67th Cork International Film Festival Designed…

man with animal tattoos wearing a white t-shirt and a baseball cap looks into the lens of his bolex camera while shooting from a height. He's surrounded by green bushes and a stone arch bridge is in the background

Supporting and Exhibiting Artists' and Experimental Moving Image in association with LUX, the Irish Film Institute and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Supported by the Arts Council.