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 micro festival 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 the course of a single weekend we will screen work by over 30 individual artists, Irish and International. Included here are works that date all the way back to the 1940s with Mary Ellen Bute’s ‘Tarentella’ which screens as part of a programme of psychedelic cinema, right up to the Irish premiere of ‘The Buriti Flower’ from 2023 by co-directors Joao Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora which opens the festival and is a moving fusion of ethnography and poetic narrative that reminds us at a key moment of the importance of indigenous knowledge.
Our special guest for the festival is the celebrated filmmaker Laida Lertxundi. We will screen a programme of Laida’s films titled ‘the answer is a lemon’ on the Saturday of the festival and Laida will also lead a practical 16mm workshop for filmmakers.
On display at DISSOLUTIONS is the widest range of approaches deployed by artists with works shot on Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm screening alongside works shot digitally, on phones, created through direct animation, and in one particular instance created by refilming a rerun of James Cameron’s Titanic on terrestrial television – Megan Conery’s, ‘put ur hands on me’ screening as part of ‘fanvid: A Mixtape’ on Friday night.
We also want to thank Temple Bar Gallery + Studios who will host three ancillary events including one at Dublin Port and our design team Angie Hogan, Daniel Kinlay, Evan Smith, Nicole Preece and Ploypailin Jitphulphon all drawn from the BA Vis Com programme at TUD.
We hope you can join us and enjoy the weekend,
aemi
FRIDAY 6th September 2024
Film / Forum | Temple Bar Gallery and Studios | 11.30am – 1pm
An open forum for filmmakers/artists working with, or interested in working with, the medium of film.
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.
The Buriti Flower (Opening Event) | The Complex | 6.30pm
Join us for the Irish premiere of ‘The Buriti Flower’ from co-directors Joao Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora.
‘fanvid: a mixtape’ and afterparty | The Complex | 9.30pm
Curated by Alice Quinn Banville this programme compiles some of the highlights from fanvid’s first year.
SATURDAY 7th September 2024
‘Telltale Signs & Murmurations’ | The Complex | 12pm – 1.10pm
A programme of films from the North curated by Ruairí McCann.
Films for a Free Palestine | The Complex | 2 – 3.30pm
An aemi-curated programme of Palestinian cinema that reflects aemi’s ongoing solidarity with Palestine and its people.
Shared Resources by Jordan Lord | The Complex | 4 – 5.30pm
Jordan Lord’s intimate feature length documentary was filmed with his family over five years, sensitively portraying their bonds and struggles.
‘the answer is a lemon’ – Films by Laida Lertxundi | The Complex | 6.30- 20.30pm
This programme of Laida Lertxundi’s films curated by Helena Gouveia Monteiro will be projected from 16mm prints by filmmaker Michael Higgins.
‘This is my happening and it freaks me out!’ with afterparty | The Complex | 10pm
An evening of psychedelic experimental short films followed by after party in the bar.
SUNDAY 8th September 2024
Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home screening event | Dublin Port | Sunday 8th September 3pm
A programme of works curated by aemi and TBG+S in response to Yuri Pattison’s ‘dream sequence’ exhibition at The Pumphouse, Dublin Port.
