aemi & KASK Cinema present: Desire Lines

aemi is delighted to present ‘Desire Lines‘at KASK Cinema, Gent. This year’s edition of the aemi touring programme brings together a variety of innovative approaches to the documentary form from contemporary Irish and international filmmakers.

Featuring films by Chloe Brenan, Collectif Faire Part, Eóin Heaney, Olivia Normile and Basma al-Sharif, the programme is touring to Irish and international venues across 2026.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Chloe Brenan & Olivia Normile.

‘Desire Lines’ is a term from the field of landscape architecture used, as Sara Ahmed writes in Queer Phenomenology (2006) 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’ 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.

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