31 January 2025 - 2 February 2025
3pm
International Film Festival Rotterdam
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aemi @ IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam)

31 January 2025 / 3pm / International Film Festival Rotterdam
aemi will screen Lisa Freeman's film Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out as part of the DINAMO : Embodiment screening at IFFR 2025.
Still from Lisa Freeman - Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out

Still from Lisa Freeman - Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out

aemi were invited to programme works this year as part of IFFR’s DINAMO programme. DINAMO is a collective of international artist film distributors that together collectively curate a series of programmes of experimental work each year for the festival. The themes of this year’s programme were Embodiment/Disembodiment and aemi put forward Lisa Freeman’s excellent 3 minute film Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out. The film will screen twice at the festival on Friday 31st and Sunday 2nd. To find out more information about the programme go here.

Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out

Still from Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out, courtesy of artist

Productivity, optimisation, constant forward motion. In this experimental short from artist and filmmaker Lisa Freeman, frenetic camerawork and quickfire editing convey the body’s lacklustre requirement to always be working in our capitalist society. Using glimpses of concrete environments, bodies on treadmills, crash-test dummies, and other ubiquitous urban images, and melding these with a soundscape of ragged breathing and disjointed conversations, Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out provides a cutting commentary on what our society inflates with importance– Sophie Tupholm

A studio portrait of filmmaker Lisa Freeman taken at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in Dublin, Ireland. Lisa is seated on a cushioned chair in the center of the image. Behind her, various images from her film work and other photographs are visible. To Lisa's left, there is a shelf with many notebooks and a plant. Lisa is wearing green and black boots, dark trousers and a dark blazer, with a blue tshirt. Her posture is relaxed but confident, as she leans forward with her legs apart and rests her chin on her right hand while looking directly into the camera.

A studio portrait of filmmaker Lisa Freeman

Lisa Freeman

Lisa Freeman is an artist and filmmaker. Her films and performances draw into question economic and power structures and explore how intimacy might be employed as a form of resistance. She is a three-year studio member at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin. Recent projects include; Slipped, Part 2, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2024), solo shows Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin and SIRIUS, Cork (2024), film screenings at Salt Lake Film Society, Utah, USA (2024), Cork International Film Festival (2023), Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023), Súitú – aemi’s 2023 touring programme, which screened at WORM Rotterdam, Filmhuis Cavia Amsterdam, Galleri Format Malmo, Filmform Stockholm, The Model Sligo, Irish Film Institute Dublin, South Tipperary Arts Centre Clonmel, Belfast Film Festival and Cork International Film Festival (2022 & ‘23).




Supporting and Exhibiting Artists' and Experimental Moving Image in association with LUX, the Irish Film Institute and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Supported by the Arts Council.