‘DISSOLUTIONS’, an experimental film festival presented in partnership with The Complex, Dublin, will begin on Friday September 6th with FORUM / FILM, an ancillary event that will take place in Studio 6 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios from 11.30am to 1pm.

This free event will take the form of an open forum for artists working on analogue film.

This special gathering will comprise short presentations from celluloid filmmakers Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Atoosa Pour Hosseini and others about the resources currently in place for small gauge filmmakers in Ireland and proposals of how these could be strengthened and enhanced through collective effort.

Artist Bios:

Helena Gouveia Monteiro is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker from Portugal living in Dublin. Concerned with the history of technical images and influenced by experimental cinema and media archaeology, she creates films, books, and multi-media installations that engage different levels of visual and cultural recognition to question our perception of language and audio-visual experiences. Her work has been shown internationally in both gallery and cinema spaces, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Indie Lisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, and Festival Ecrã. “Purkyně’s Dusk” (2021) is distributed by Light Cone Paris and “Man of Aral” (2023) was supported by the film project award from the Arts Council of Ireland. She is the co-founder of Stereo Editions, an independent publishing collective of artists’ editions, a member of L’Abominable/Navire Argo, and currently co-directs the LUX Critical Forum Dublin.

Atoosa Pour Hosseini is an Iranian-Irish visual artist and filmmaker based in Dublin, Ireland. Pour Hosseini’s work is influenced by historical avant-garde cinema, and explores questions about illusion, reality, and perception through the media of film, performance, sculpture and installation. She works with the material textures of 8mm and 16mm film as well as digital processes to explore layers of space and time. Pour Hosseini’s work has shown at several galleries, museums, festivals, around the world, including Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Irish Museum of Modern Art;  Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kino Moviemento, Berlin; LUFF festival, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran. Her monograph, Atoosa Pour Hosseini 2011-2021, was published by Oonagh Young Gallery in 2021. Pour Hosseini’s work is held in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Arts Council of Ireland.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

• The inside of the building is wheelchair accessible. TBG+S has an elevator from the ground floor to all other floors including Studio 6.
• TBG+S has gender neutral toilet facilities and a wheelchair accessible toilet on the ground floor.
• Guide and assistance dogs are welcome in TBG+S.

ALL ARE WELCOME but spaces are limited so please book in advance to secure your place as part of the forum.

DISSOLUTIONS is proudly supported by Screen Ireland and The Arts Council.

aemi is very grateful to Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for their ongoing support of our work throughout the year.