aemi’s 2023 touring programme ‘Súitú’ screens at WORM in Rotterdam, with support from Culture Ireland.
Film info:
Fábio Andrade, Contorno/ Contour, 2021, Brazil, 10 mins
Susan Hughes, Eyes Like Cats, 2022, Northern Ireland, 3 mins
Morgan Quaintance, A Human Certainty, 2021, United Kingdom, 20 mins
Bárbara Lago, Yon, 2021, Argentina, 8 mins
Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Other Tidal Effects, 2021, USA, 7 mins
Lisa Freeman, Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out, 2020, Ireland, 3 mins
Holly Márie Parnell, Cabbage, 2023, Ireland, 28 mins
Running time: 80 minutes
‘Súitú’ – an Irish language term pronounced Suet-two – signifies the sucking in-and-out
sound made as the sea moves through stones at the shoreline, pulling them into water
before rolling them back onto dry land. Evoking the elemental, the programme’s pacing picks
up not just on the familiar ebbs and flow of the sea, but also the external forces that
circumscribe contemporary lived experience. From inner psychological journeys to the
phenomenological, the seven films in this programme together offer an emotional, embodied
and sensory experience.
Featuring work by Fábio Andrade (Brazil), Susan Hughes (Northern Ireland), Morgan
Quaintance (U.K.), Bárbara Lago (Argentina), Sofia Theodore-Pierce (U.S.A), Lisa Freeman
(Ireland) and Holly Márie Parnell (Ireland), ‘Súitú’ is an aemi programme that forms
connections between contemporary moving image work by Irish and international artists.
aemi is touring ‘Súitú’ to venues nationally and internationally across 2023.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with featured artists Lisa Freeman, Susan Hughes, and Holly Márie Parnell, in conversation with Tim Leyendekker, Film Programmer at WORM.
Fábio Andrade, Contorno/ Contour
“Open the leaves I will see my body turned into flower.” – Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos
Susan Hughes, Eyes Like Cats
After an encounter with bioluminescent phosphorescence, a line of enquiry begins into how humans have made sense of mysterious natural occurrences throughout history.
Morgan Quaintance, A Human Certainty
The inevitability of separation, loss and death are explored through an introspectively written monologue and a selection of stills, moving images and written text.
Bárbara Lago, Yon
Using archive material from their childhood, Bárbara Lago re-programmes their childhood’s mythology and reflects on their body traversed by affections, fictions and the passing of time.
Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Other Tidal Effects
Catamenial seizures, tidal correspondences, a sonic EEG, and a lullaby in partial translation. Highlighting the seams with the darts. An exploration of epileptic rhythms and sensations through moving image practice.
“And there are other tidal effects, mysterious and intangible.” – Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea
Lisa Freeman, Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out
The work touches on things that are inflated: bills, lungs, bellies, airbags, egos.
Holly Márie Parnell, Cabbage
An intimate film made in collaboration with Parnell’s family, Cabbage looks at the complexities of bodily autonomy within an ableist paradigm. Through moments of reflection and observation, the film focuses on her brother’s writings using eye tracking technology, and her mother’s memories, to explore how we shape a sense of self under the pervasive weight of unspoken assumptions, categories and fixed definitions that get placed onto bodies. Dissecting layers of language, agency and power, the film is a subtle examination of how a human life is measured and valued.
‘Súitú’ is accompanied by a newly commissioned text by writer and film programmer Ruairí McCann, which is available to read here.