DISSOLUTIONS: an experimental film festival at The Complex Dublin

The Complex Dublin 6-7th September

with ancillary events at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and Dublin Port

We at aemi are excited to share the full programme of events we have planned for DISSOLUTIONS 2024.

As part of our day to day work with aemi we regularly meet with artists, gaining insight into their work and their processes. Through this we are continuously impressed with the sheer diversity of practices within the fields of artist cinema and experimental film. Our aim with this festival then was not only to celebrate these practices but also some of the remarkable initiatives that are helping transform how this work is seen. With that in mind then we were delighted to work on this festival with a number of key collaborators including Alice Quinn Banville, Ruairí McCann, and Helena Gouveia Monteiro who all generously curated programmes for the festival.

Over two days, with an additional event at Dublin Port on Sunday the 8th, we will screen work by over 30 artists, both Irish and International. Included here are works that span from the 1940s (Mary Ellen Bute’s ‘Tarentella’) right up to the Irish premiere of ‘The Buriti Flower’ by co-directors Joao Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora, a moving fusion of ethnography and poetic narrative which opens the festival.

Our special guest for the festival is the celebrated filmmaker, Laida Lertxundi. We will screen a programme of Laida’s work titled “the answer is a lemon” and Laida will also lead a practical 16mm workshop. Also on display at DISSOLUTIONS then is the wide range of approaches deployed by artists- works shot on Super 8, 16mm, 35mm but also works shot digitally, on phones, through direct animation, and in one instance created by refilming a rerun of James Cameron’s Titanic on terrestrial television (Megan Conery’s, put ur hands on me).

We want to thank our primary sponsors Arts Council and Screen Ireland but also The Complex, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and our design team Angie Hogan, Daniel Kinlay, Evan Smith, Nicole Preece and Ploypailin Jitphulphon, all from the BA Vis Com programme at TU Dublin.

We hope you enjoy the weekend,

aemi

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Schedule / Friday 6th September 2024

11.30AM FORUM / FILM

An open forum for filmmakers’/artists working with, or interested in working with, the medium of film.

This special gathering will comprise short presentations from celluloid filmmakers about the resources currently in place for small gauge filmmakers in Ireland and proposals of how these could be strengthened and enhanced through collective effort.

2PM 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 participants with the unique chance of gaining insight into Laida’s creative process as well as hands-on experience of shooting on and recording sound for 16mm film.

6.15PM ‘The Buriti Flower’ (Opening Event)

Shot over 15 months in several villages in the Krahô territory, Central Brazil, ‘The Buriti Flower’ is the result of years of working with and alongside the indigenous communities featured in the film.

9.30PM ‘fanvid: a mixtape’ and afterparty

Curated by Alice Quinn Banville this programme compiles some of the highlights from fanvid’s first year. Offering something of a licked finger in the wind, these films convery a shared sense of desire, hope and frustration in response to life in Ireland, online and beyond.

Saturday 7th September 2024

12PM ‘Telltale Signs & Murmurations’

The second day of ‘Dissolutions’ will begin with ‘Telltale Signs & Murmurations’, a programme of films from the North curated by Ruairí McCann to reflect a prismatic view, entangling and contesting notions of public and private space, ownership and ways of perception.

1.45PM Films for a Free Palestine

This aemi-curated programme of Palestinian cinema will screen directly after ‘Telltale Signs & Murmurations’ on Saturday September 7th, establishing a timely dialogue between Northern Ireland and the current occupation of Palestine. This programme also reflects aemi’s ongoing solidarity with Palestine and its people.

4pm ‘Shared Resources’ by Jordan Lord

Jordan Lord’s intimate feature length documentary was filmed with his family over five years, sensitively portraying their bonds and struggles. Multiple viewpoints are expressed through audio descriptions and open captions, making access a constituent element of the film and interrupting the primacy of any one form of spectatorship.

6.30pm ‘the answer is a lemon’ - Films by Laida Lertxundi

In “the answer is a lemon”, we will traverse the unique film landscapes of Laida Lertxundi, guided by songs and textual fragments that simultaneously provide and resist meaning. This programme of Laida Lertxundi’s films curated by Helena Gouveia Monteiro will be projected from 16mm by filmmaker Michael Higgins.

10pm ‘This is my happening and it freaks me out!’ with afterparty

Saturday ends with a mind-altering late night screening of psychedelic experimental short films curated be aemi followed by an after-party in the bar. Artists featured here include Jordan Belson, Alexander LaRose, Mary Ellen Bute, Pat O’Neill, Ben Russell and Adam Beckett.

Sunday 8th September 2024

3PM Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home screening event at Dublin Port

A programme of works curated by aemi and TBG+S in response to Yuri Pattison’s ‘dream sequence’ exhibition at The Pumphouse, Dublin Port.

aemi is proud to present:

‘DISSOLUTIONS’, an experimental film festival taking place in partnership with The Complex, Dublin, on Friday 6th & Saturday 7th of September with ancillary events in partnership with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios on Friday September 6th & Sunday September 8th 2024 respectively.