aemi is thrilled to partner with Galway Film Fleadh to present a screening of Desire Lines, a touring programme of artist and experimental film that brings together a range of voices from Irish and international contemporary practice.

“Desire lines” is a term from the field of landscape architecture used, as Sara Ahmed writes, to describe “unofficial paths, those marks left on the ground that show everyday comings and goings, where people deviate from the paths they are supposed to follow”. Taken as a whole, the films featured in Desire Lines by Basma al-Sharif, Chloe Brenan, Olivia Normile, Collectif Faire-Part and Eóin Heaney, offer up a picture of imposed and chosen deviation, a picture that takes in experiences of isolation and displacement alongside those of collective resistance and revelation, taking care to capture the fleeting moments where these possibilities can briefly intersect.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A led by Dr Tony Tracy, Lecturer in Film & Media and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Galway, with featured filmmakers Chloe Brenan, Eóin Heaney and Olivia Normile. 

FILM INFORMATION

Morning Circle / Morgenkreis, Basma al-Sharif, 2025, Canada/UAE, 21minutes
Verdigris, Chloe Brenan, 2025, Ireland 12 minutes
as above, so below (Limits and Demonstrations), Olivia Normile, 2025, Ireland, 3 minutes
Speech For A Melting Statue, Collectif Faire Part, 2023, Belgium, Congo, Democratic Republic, 10 minutes
Body Diagrams (Limits and Demonstrations), Olivia Normile, 2025, Ireland, 1 minute 30 seconds
Parish, Eóin Heaney, 2024, Ireland, 27 minutes

Total running time 75 minutes

•Eoin Heaney’s PARISH screens in ‘Desire Lines’ from a DCP generously provided by IFI Irish Film Archive•

aemi is delighted to share a newly commissioned essay, written by Leah Reynolds, to accompany our 2026 touring film programme ‘Desire Lines.’