Rough Cut Development Workshops

Rough Cut Development Workshops offer an ongoing opportunity for film artists to present and receive feedback on works-in-progress. These semi-public events take place with a group of peers as well as a selected guest (curator, programmer, academic or critic) within a supportive peer environment.

Each session features two chosen artists, as well as an invited respondent, and artists can present works at various stages of completion from pre-funding to in post-production. These sessions offer a useful way to get feedback and advice on a number of topics including production, funding and exhibition strategies. Rough Cut is available to Tier 2 Developing Your Practice as a Film Artist articipants – if you would be interested in either presenting at or attending an upcoming session please contact us at [email protected].

Responders to works in progress at previous Rough Cut events include:

•Artist Caoimhín Gaffney

•Cork International Film Festival programmer Don O’Mahony

•Head of Cinema for The Lighthouse Alice Black

•LUX Scotland Public Programme Manager David Upton

•Visual Arts Curator at The Complex Mark O’Gorman

•Film Programmer Myriam Mouflih

•Head of Research & Learning at IMMA Sheena Barrett

•Arist & Academic Joseph Noonan Ganley

•Belfast Film Festival programmer Rose Baker

•Western Front Executive Director Susan Gibb

•Head of Film Programming & Distribution at Eye Filmmuseum Julian Ross

•Programmer & Academic Helen De Witt

•CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams

•City Projects Producer Kate Parker

•Former LUX Director Ben Cook

•Curator & Writer Adam Pugh

aemi Rough Cut session February 10th 2025

Our first Rough Cut event of 2025 took place in person on Monday 10th February 2025 in Unit 4,…

aemi Rough Cut session May 2024

The second of three Rough Cut events that aemi will present across 2024 took place on May 28th online….

aemi Rough Cut session – March 2023

We at aemi were very happy to present the first in-person edition of Rough Cut in March 2023 in…

This is a still from ‘Daisy: Queer Prophet of the Apocalypse’, a work-in-progress film by artist and filmmaker Venus Patel. The scene is set at dusk on a sandy beach, where a person is shown on their hands and knees, facing sideways towards a low pool of water. They are dressed in a bright blue skirt, and on their head, there is a large rectangular cardboard box painted with a crocodile head. The box is adorned with long green and blue streamers, and their image is reflected in the still water. In the background, we see a townscape and low hills under a cloudy grey sky, with the sun breaking through the clouds in the distance.