Once again aemi were invited by International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to submit a work by an Irish or Ireland-based film artist for inclusion in their DINAMO programme. DINAMO is an international network of artist film distributors that meet every year at the festival and share films from their collections. This year aemi submitted Chloe Brenan’s Verdigris (2025) to screen at the festival. We are thrilled that Verdigris will screen as part of the DINAMO: Exposure programme. Chloe is a graduate of aemi’s Developing Your Practice as a Film Artist programme.
Portrait of artist Chloe Brenan, 2025
Chloe Brenan, Verdigris, 2025, Ireland 12 minutes
Verdigris is a digitised Super 8mm film shot largely during a residency in Paris. Drifting through the city, it explores how architecture shapes movement and how digression can serve as subtle resistance. Through textured, meandering visuals and the layering of specific histories, the film reflects on dailiness, standardisation, time, and control – suggesting that movement in the city is never truly neutral.
Chloe’s film will screen twice over the run of the festival on Friday January 30th at 4.45pm at Kino and on Monday February 2nd at 2.45pm also at Kino. Chloe and aemi co-director Alice Butler will take part in a Q&A after the screening on Friday January 30th at 4.45pm.
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About Chloe Brenan
Chloe Brenan is an Irish artist and filmmaker from rural County Carlow, based between Carlow and Dublin. Working across film, photography, sound, and text, her practice explores the porosity of the body and its indivisibility from its environment. Informed by feminist and new materialist epistemologies, her work engages in close, attentive examinations of the poetic haptics of everyday life and processes at the edge of perception, calling into question boundaries between bodies, environments, intimate spaces, and wider structures of power.
Selected screenings and exhibitions include DISSOLUTIONS Film Festival, The Complex, Dublin (IE); Cork International Film Festival, 69th Edition, 2024 (IE); Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry (NI); Whammy Analog Media, Los Angeles (US); Solstice Art Centre, Navan (IE); and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow (IE).
She was nominated for a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and Institut Français, and is a recipient of the Markievicz Award for Film as part of the Irish Decade of Centenaries.
