Our first Rough Cut event of 2025 took place in person on Monday 10th February 2025 in Unit 4, James Joyce Street . Rough Cut sessions offer film artists the opportunity to share and discuss works-in-progress in a supportive environment. They play a central role in aemi’s artist support programme

This session was the second edition of Rough Cut tied into our Tier 2 artist development programme. We launched this new artist development programme through an open call in summer 2024 and have met with the nine participating artists on a monthly basis since then. The programme consists of information sessions, access to peer to peer support, artist-led workshops and the opportunity to present works in progress as part of these Rough Cut events. The idea with these events is to open up the artistic process for discussion and reflection, to form connections around works in progress and to make space for outside perspectives on a project before its shape and form is complete.

These events are not open to the public; instead the audience is made up of a small group of peers who are invited to actively participate in the conversations about the works in question. Because the works being presented and discussed are still in process, Rough Cut events are not recorded for public presentation.

Film artists Chloe Brenan, Luke van Gelderen and Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz generously presented works in progress at Rough Cut and Don O’Mahony, Senior Programmer at Cork International Film Festival lead the responses to our three artist film projects in process.

A freelance writer on arts and cultural events, Don O’Mahony is Senior Programmer with Cork International Film Festival. Having become involved with the festival in 1999 as part of their selection committee, Don has been in charge of the festival’s experimental programme, “Free Radicals” since 2004. This has recently broadened into the festival’s Parallax section, which gathers together various artists organisations with which the festival collaborates to present screenings and exhibitions of experimental and artist film and moving image work. He has been in charge of the festival’s short film programming since 2016.

Chloe Brenan (she/her) is an artist from rural County Carlow. Recent exhibitions / screenings include Loose Definition (borders, proximity and domestic objects) Whammy Analog Media, Los Angeles (US); Where Our Worlds Meet. She is a recipient of the 2022 Markievicz Award for film and holds a Membership Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.

Luke van Gelderen works across video, sculpture, and digital media, creating immersive installations that examine the performance and mediation of contemporary identities through technology. Converging celebrity culture, alienation, masculinity and violence, his work is grounded in his own experience of recurring intrusive thoughts and images amplified by the internet. Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Rome Save Me’ Pallas Projects/Studios, (2024). Luke is a co-founder of CRUX, an off-site curatorial collective. He lives an works in Dublin and is a current studio member in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. His work is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Dr Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz is a filmmaker/film scholar based in Dublin, teaching film theory, globalization and media, documentary and experimental film, currently working between University of Galway and University College Dublin. They are also recipient of Irish Research Council’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2024) and the Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland (2023) to further their film practice. Their first monograph Judith Butler and Film is forthcoming from Bloomsbury (Fall 2025). Temmuz tries to combine their academic, curatorial and creative practice, spanning a variety of experimental and underground forms of audio-visual media. 

If you’re a film artist, film programmer, producer or curator and have an interest in attending Rough Cut in the future, contact us at [email protected].

More information on Chloe Brenan’ work HERE

More information on Luke van Gelderen’s work HERE

More information on Dr Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz ‘s work HERE