CIFF Season! aemi @ Cork International Film Festival (Sunday 17th November)
Published date: 11 Nov 2024
aemi is thrilled to once again take part in the Cork International Film Festival and we look forward to our visit this weekend.
As part of the festival, aemi has curated two programmes; both taking place on Sunday 17th November @ 13:00 and @15:30 at The Arc Cinema, N Main St, Centre, Cork, T12 KN88 (Screen 6).
Our first programme is Flights from Reason. Curated by aemi for CIFF (Cork International Film Festival), Flights from Reason is a programme of new works by film artists from Ireland, France, the U.K., Poland and Sweden.
Working within a range of interconnected contexts and from a rich variety of sources the filmmakers in this programme all employ an indirect approach to their subjects, producing exciting forms of visual and sonic montage as a means of expressing unknowns, engaging with evasive figures and connecting with buried or fading histories. A complex of ideas emerges, producing entanglements where conscious and unconscious intertwine, ‘psychic knots’, as described by Joanna Stroud, that can be considered without a need for resolution.
FILM INFORMATION:
Aurélien Froment, Louis et les langues (Louis and languages), 2023, U.K., 22 minutes
Saskia Holmkvist, Margaret (Back Translation), 2023, Sweden, 19 minutes
Keira Greene, Máthair, 2024, U.K., 16 minutes
Ewelina Rosinska, Popół imieniem jest człowieka, Ashes by name is man, 2022, Germany, 20 minutes
Chloe Brenan, Different Dusts, 2021, Ireland, 7 minutes
Our second programme is ‘The Said and the Unsaid’. Curated by aemi for CIFF (Cork International Film Festival), ‘The Said and the Unsaid’ is the premiere screening of aemi’s 2025 Touring Programme.
This eclectic programme of work shifts from an act of deliberate and playful obfuscation (3 Peonies) to a process of attempted rediscovery (In Search of the Forenaughts Longstone) to an uncovering of media artefacts that speak to both deliberate and discrete forms of creative expression in the face of state sponsored censorship (Nazarbazi and Few Can See). Together these works describe a variety of creative means of expression borne out of a necessity to speak however indirectly.
FILM INFORMATION:
Stephanie Barber, 3 Peonies, 2017 , U.S. ,3 mins.
Jonathan O’Grady, In Search of the Forenaughts Longstone, 2021, Ireland, 12 mins.
Maryam Tafakory, Nazarbazi, 2022 Iran/UK, 19 mins.
Frank Sweeney, Few Can See, 2023, Ireland, 42 mins.
TICKET LINKS ARE FOR BOTH PROGRAMMES ARE AVAILABLE HERE
