‘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

See the full programme for OFFLINE Film Festival HERE