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John Skoog, Shadowland, 2015, 15 min. Courtesy of Filmform.

aemi @ CIFF: Filmform – Landscapes Expanding

15 November 2025 / Arc Cinema Screen 6

One of two programmes at this year's Cork International Film Festival curated for aemi by Swedish artist film distributor Filmform.

Gunvor Nelson, RED SHIFT, 1984, 47 min. Courtesy of Filmform.

aemi @ CIFF: Gunvor Nelson – A Tribute

15 November 2025 / The Arc Cinema Screen 6

aemi and filmform present a tribute to pioneering filmmaker Gunvar Nelson who passed away earlier this year.

aemi & IFI present: Meshes of the Afternoon & Nightshift

15 October 2025 / Irish Film Institute

This screening forms part of aemi's annual Artist Film Programme with the IFI.
aemi is delighted to welcome Irish filmmaker Pat Murphy to present this programme.

DISSOLUTIONS 25: Black Nations/Queer Nations? (1995)

28 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

Shari Frilot's Black Nations/Queer Nations? (1995) exemplifies how the multiple, the erotic, the cyber and the spiritual are tools needed to shape a future. Selected by Clodagh Assata Boyce who will lead a Q&A with Dr John Wilkins after the screening

DISSOLUTIONS 25: LUNAR STONES: SARAH BALLARD, CALLUM HILL & MAEVE BRENNAN

28 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

Featuring Irish premieres of new films by Sarah Ballard, Callum Hill and Maeve Brennan, 'Lunar Stones' seeks to reflect on and complicate ideas of spectatorship explored at the outset of DISSOLUTIONS.

DISSOLUTIONS 25 CLOSING EVENT: Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s ‘On a Paving Stone Mounted’ (1978) + Q&A

28 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

Our closing event is a screening of Thaddeus O'Sullivan's impressionistic survey of the Irish emigrant experience 'On a Paving Stone Mounted' (1978). The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Thaddeus O'Sullivan led by Ruairí McCann

DISSOLUTIONS 25: Basma al-Sharif- ‘TOGETHER WE CAN STOP THIS SHIT’

28 September 2025 / The Complex, 21-25 Arran St E, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 YY97

aemi is proud to present 'TOGETHER WE CAN STOP THIS SHIT', a masterclass from DISSOLUTIONS '25 artist in focus Basma al-Sharif on humour as a political tool in artist filmmaking

Juno Claffey Hegarty & Alannah Davey, I am Here, 4 mins, 2025

DISSOLUTIONS 25: fanvid – Making Do curated by Alice Quinn Banville

27 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

'Making Do' is a programme of fanvid submissions curated by Alice Quinn Banville featuring films by Micheá Keating, Dan Montague O'Brien, Laura Fitzgerald, Cóilín O’Connell, Michelle Malone, Senan Rogers, Paul O'Neill, Tess Nye, Holly Pickering and Juno Claffey Hegarty & Alannah Davey

Electrical Gaza, Rosalind Nashashibi, Palestine/UK, 18 min, 2015

DISSOLUTIONS 25: OUR TONGUES IN EXILE CURATED BY OONA MOSNA

27 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

Curated by Media City Film Festival’s Artistic Director Oona Mosna, ‘Our Tongues in Exile’ gathers films together that have played formative roles in the development of the festival’s storied history across the last 20 years.

DISSOLUTIONS 25: Festival Artist in Focus – Long-Life Witness – Films by Basma al-Sharif curated by Diaa Lagan

27 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

This programme of films by DISSOLUTIONS artist in focus Basma al-Sharif curated by Diaa Lagan brings together seminal works by the artist from across her career. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Basma al-Sharif led by Diaa Lagan.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Basma al-Sharif led by Diaa Lagan.

DISSOLUTIONS 25: Peter Paul and Mary

27 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

Following on from a late night screening of psychedelic experimental shorts at last year’s festival this programme looks at three key figures from three different generations all innovating approaches to the film form.

DISSOLUTIONS 25: International festival strategies for film artists with Jeremy Rigbsy

27 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

Jeremy Rigsby- Assistant Director Media City Film Festival will give a talk that will look at the changing environments now facing film artists on the festival circuit

DISSOLUTIONS 25 OPENING EVENT : A FIDAI FILM

26 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

aemi presents the Irish premiere of Kamal Aljafari's A Fidai Film; a reclamation of the archive collection of photos and film from the Palestine Research Center in Beirut seized by the IDF in 1982.

DISSOLUTIONS 25: Against Stasis Parts I & II

26 September 2025 / The Complex Dublin

A programme in two parts of works by the eight participating artists in aemi's inaugural Tier 2 programme. Featuring work by Michael Barwise, Chloe Brenan, Rik Higashikawa, Colm Higgins, Jack Hogan, Ann Upton, Luke van Gelderen and Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz.

DISSOLUTIONS ’25: aemi & PVA present TAKE YOUR SEATS…

26 September 2025 / The Complex, 21-25 Arran St E, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 YY97

Ahead of a weekend of screenings for DISSOLUTIONS, aemi is pleased to present ‘Take Your Seats…’, a panel discussion devised with Paper Visual Art to explore the allure of film as an art form and the idiosyncrasies of the cinema space.

aemi @ GAZE Film Festival 2025: A Body To Live In + SKINFLICKER

3 August 2025 / Irish Film Institute

GAZE: Ireland’s International LGBTQIA Film Festival, taking place from Thursday 31st July to Monday 4th August

aemi @ Galway Film Fleadh 2025: Boomerang & The Glass Booth

12 July 2025 / Pálás Screen 3, Galway

aemi returns to Galway Film Fleadh for 2025.

aemi & The Model present: Flights from Reason

12 July 2025 / The Model, The Mall, Sligo. F91 TP20

aemi is delighted to continue our collaboration with The Model in 2025 in presenting Flights from Reason, a programme of new works by Irish and international film artists.

aemi & Docs Ireland 2025: Acting Woman / BAN♥️ITS / The Laughable

29 June 2025 / Queen’s Film Theatre, 20 University Square, Belfast BT7 1PA

aemi is thrilled to partner once again with Docs Ireland in Belfast to present three experimental documentaries that engage with humour and performance in ways that unravel our expectations

aemi / IFI present ‘The Said and The Unsaid’

17 June 2025 / Irish Film Institute

Films by Frank Sweeney, Jonathan O'Grady, Maryam Tafakory and Stephanie Barber. Collectively these works describe a variety of creative means of expression borne out of the necessity to speak, however indirectly.

FILM ARTIST OPPORTUNITY: aemi Tier 2 Programme online info session (June 13th)

13 June 2025 / Online: ZOOM

If you are interested in attending email [email protected] to sign up

aemi Rough Cut session June 2025

4 June 2025 / Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 AC84

Rough Cut sessions offer film artists the opportunity to share and discuss works-in-progress in a supportive peer environment. They play a central role in aemi’s Tier 2 artist development programme.

Bealtaine, aemi and IFI present: Film Portraits by Christiana Perschon

3 May 2025 / Irish Film Institute

aemi is thrilled to partner with Bealtaine Festival for the first time to present Film Portraits by Christiana Perschon in partnership with the IFI.

Christiana Perschon Filmmaker’s Masterclass: May 2nd 2025

2 May 2025 / ATRL: Arts Technology Research Laboratory

Ten young black men are gathered beside a rivers edge. Some are seated on rocks, some are standing and two are on a wooden raft. Behind them appears a riverside dwelling.

IFI & aemi present: AT THE HEART OF THE REAL

7 April 2025 / Irish Film Institute 6 Eustace Street Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Ireland

This screening forms part of aemi's annual Artist Film Programme with the IFI.

Jenny Brady, Music For Solo Performer (2022)

Accessibility and artist film event with Jenny Brady / Elaine Lillian Joseph

24 February 2025 / The Arts Technology Research Laboratory (ATRL) @ TCD

Upcoming screening & information session for film artists: 'intrinsic access' - Jenny Brady & Elaine Lillian Joseph

aemi & Dublin International Film Festival present: ARTIST FILM AND THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT – In conversation with Anastasia Lukovnikova

23 February 2025 / The Complex, Dublin

aemi co-director Alice Butler will lead a conversation with IndieLisboa festival programmer and film researcher Anastasia Lukovnikova.

aemi Rough Cut session February 10th 2025

10 February 2025 / Unit 4 on James Joyce Street (DCC Incubation Space)

Rough Cut sessions offer film artists the opportunity to share and discuss works-in-progress in a supportive peer environment and they form a vital part of our Artist Support programme.

Still from Lisa Freeman - Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out

aemi @ IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam)

31 January 2025 / International Film Festival Rotterdam

aemi will screen Lisa Freeman's film Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out as part of the DINAMO : Embodiment screening at IFFR 2025.

Arts Council Film Funding Clinic 2025 hosted by AEMI

21 January 2025 / Goethe-Institut Ireland, 37 Merrion Square E, Dublin 2, D02 XK52

Join us for a free in-person event that will give invaluable insight into the Arts Council’s funding opportunities for film artists.

Upcoming Graeme Arnfield Film Screening & Workshop

10 January 2025 / The Hugh Lane Gallery

Graeme Arnfield will host a workshop for aemi's Tier 2 participants and a screening of his work at the Hugh Lane Gallery on January 9th & 10th.

aemi presents: Spirit Messages @ CAST Cornwall

6 December 2024 / CAST, 3 Penrose Road, Helston, Cornwall

‘Spirit Messages’ is aemi’s 2024 touring programme, an annual selection made to bring together some of the most exciting new moving image work by Irish and international artists.

aemi Rough Cut session November 2024

25 November 2024 / Unit 44, Prussia St, Dublin, D07 AE10

Rough Cut sessions offer film artists the opportunity to share and discuss works-in-progress in a supportive peer environment and they form a vital part of our Artist Support programme.

aemi @ CIFF: aemi Experimental Shorts: ‘Flights from Reason’

17 November 2024 / The Arc Cinema, Cork, (Screen 6)

Cork International Film Festival presents Ireland’s most exciting, diverse, and ambitious annual film festival, connecting and stimulating audiences and artists through a carefully curated selection of the best films, to create a unique shared cultural experience, rooted in Cork, open to the world.

aemi @ CIFF: aemi Experimental Shorts: ‘The Said and the Unsaid’

17 November 2024 / The Arc Cinema, Cork, (Screen 6)

aemi presents: Spirit Messages in Sweden with University of Gothenburg & Filmform

8 October 2024 / University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Göteborg & Filmform, Svarvargatan 2, SE-112 49 Stockholm

‘Spirit Messages’ is aemi’s 2024 touring programme, an annual selection made to bring together some of the most exciting new moving image work by Irish and international artists.

aemi & WORM Rotterdam present: Spirit Messages

18 September 2024 / WORM, Boomgaardsstraat, 69-71, 3012 XA Rotterdam

‘Spirit Messages’ is aemi’s 2024 touring programme, an annual selection made to bring together some of the most exciting new moving image work by Irish and international artists.

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home screening event at Dublin Port

8 September 2024 / The Substation, Alexandra Road, Dublin Port, Dublin 1

A programme of works curated in response to Yuri Pattison’s 'dream sequence' exhibition at The Substation, Dublin Port.

A person lies on a mustard sofa facing away from the camera. They are wearing dark trousers, a peach coloured sleeveless top and white socks. They have dark hair and their left leg is raised up and rests along the top of the sofa. The room is panelled in dark wood with a triptych of 70s style linear paintings on the wall behind the sofa.

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: ‘the answer is a lemon’ Films by Laida Lertxundi

7 September 2024 / The Complex Dublin

This programme of Laida Lertxundi's films curated by Helena Gouveia Monteiro will be projected from 16mm prints by filmmaker Michael Higgins.

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: ‘Telltale Signs & Murmurations’

7 September 2024 / The Complex Dublin

A programme of films from the North curated by Ruairí McCann

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: Films for a Free Palestine

7 September 2024 / The Complex Dublin

An aemi-curated programme of Palestinian cinema that reflects aemi’s ongoing solidarity with Palestine and its people.

A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair stands next to a bald man wearing glasses, in front of an ocean and a cloudy blue sky. They both stare at the camera. A caption at the bottom of the image reads: "My mom and dad pose for the camera, standing on a pier".

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: ‘Shared Resources’ by Jordan Lord

7 September 2024 / The Complex Dublin

Jordan Lord's intimate feature length documentary was filmed with his family over five years, sensitively portraying their bonds and struggles.

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: ‘This is my happening and it freaks me out!’ with afterparty

7 September 2024 / The Complex Dublin

An evening of psychedelic experimental short films followed by after party in the bar.

aemi presents ‘DISSOLUTIONS: an experimental film festival’ at The Complex Dublin , September 6th & 7th 2024

6 September 2024 / The Complex, Dublin

This September, over two days aemi will transform The Complex into a new kind of artist cinema, hosting screenings, workshops, and artist talks

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: LANDSCAPE PLUS: Practical 16mm film workshop with filmmaker Laida Lertxundi

6 September 2024 / The Gallery at The Complex, enter via Arran St East

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: ‘The Buriti Flower’ (Opening Event)

6 September 2024 / The Complex, Dublin

Join us for the Irish premiere of ‘The Buriti Flower’ from co-directors Joao Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora.

DISSOLUTIONS 2024: ‘fanvid: a mixtape’ and afterparty

6 September 2024 / The Complex Dublin

Curated by Alice Quinn Banville this programme comprises of highlights from regular fanvid screenings

FORUM / FILM

6 September 2024 / Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

An open forum for filmmakers'/artists working with, or interested in working with, the medium of film.

aemi & The Shankill Screen present: Spirit Messages

18 August 2024 / Vault Artist Studios, The Shankill Mission, 116 Shankill Road

‘Spirit Messages’ is aemi’s 2024 touring programme, an annual selection made to bring together some of the most exciting new moving image work by Irish and international artists.

aemi & Gaze LGBTQIA+ International Film Festival Present: Ursa Minor

3 August 2024 / Light House Cinema, Smithfield, Dublin 7

GAZE is a queer film festival hosted in the Light House Cinema and Irish Film Institute every summer. This year GAZE will take place from the 1st to the 5th of August 2024.

Street memorial on Lecky Road, Derry city, 1971, marking the site where Desmond Beattie (19 years old) was shot and killed on 8 July 1971by the British Army. Seamus Cusack (28 years old) was shot dead near this spot about twelve hours later. These men were the first people shot dead by the British Army in Derry. © Estate of Akihiko Okamura

aemi @ Galway Film Fleadh: Recording the Troubles

13 July 2024 / Pálás Screen 3 - Galway

As part of this year's Galway Film Fleadh aemi will co-host this screening of Frank Sweeney's Few Can See and The Memories of Others which considers Japanese Photographer Akihiko Okamura's incredible depictions of The Troubles.

aemi @ Docs Ireland: Back Translation

23 June 2024 / Queen's Film Theatre

Selected by aemi for Docs Ireland, ‘Back Translation’ is made up of new films from four intrepid voices from the field of artist and experimental film.

aemi & Marienbad Film Festival present: Spirit Messages

15 June 2024 / Chopin House Hlavní třída 47 Mariánské Lázně 353 01

‘Spirit Messages’ is aemi’s 2024 touring programme, an annual selection made to bring together some of the most exciting new moving image work by Irish and international artists.

‘The Blue Description Project’ at the BFI in the UK in March. A group of people are gathered in a cinema. They are seated and are facing a large sized screen. A single shot of saturated blue colour fills the screen and bathes the room and the guests in a blue glow. A caption is seen on the bottom of the screen but is not legible in this image. Two people are standing to the left of the screen as the group faces it.

‘The Blue Description Project’ – reinterpreting Derek Jarman’s final film

5 June 2024 / IFI Dublin

aemi & IFI present: The Blue Description Project

aemi Rough Cut session May 2024

28 May 2024 / Online Event

Rough Cut sessions offer film artists the opportunity to share and discuss works-in-progress in a supportive peer environment and they form a vital part of our Artist Support programme.

ONLINE EVENT: Drop-in event for artists applying to aemi’s ‘Developing Your Practice as a Film Artist’ programme

10 May 2024 / ONLINE EVENT

aemi & STARLING present: Spirit Messages

26 April 2024 / STARLING, 31 Nicholas street, Limerick, Ireland V94W276

aemi & IFI present: Spirit Messages

22 April 2024 / IFI Dublin

Online Artist’s Talk: Building societies: architecture in Irish artists’ film Wednesday 17th April @ 9:00am (IRE)

17 April 2024 / Online Event

IFI & aemi present: Films from Palestine curated by Shasha Movies – Introduced by Róisín Tapponi

27 March 2024 / IFI Dublin

aemi & The Model present: Spirit Messages

23 March 2024 / The Model, The Mall, Sligo, F91 TP20

East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) & aemi present: Man In Black & Für Bettina

9 March 2024 / IFI Dublin

Arts Council Film Funding Clinic, hosted by AEMI

7 February 2024 / Goethe-Institut Ireland, 37 Merrion Square E, Dublin 2, D02 XK52

aemi Rough Cut session January 2024

31 January 2024 / Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore by Sky Hopinka

12 December 2023 / IFI Dublin

aemi @ CIFF: aemi Artist in Focus: Kevin Jerome Everson

19 November 2023 / Triskel Arts Centre

aemi @ CIFF: Spirit Messages

19 November 2023 / Triskel Arts Centre

Still from Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss (2023) by Lisa Freeman. Image courtesy of the artist.

aemi @ CIFF: aemi Experimental Shorts: A Moment Between

18 November 2023 / Sirius Arts Centre

aemi @ CIFF: Kevin Jerome Everson Masterclass

18 November 2023 / Sirius Arts Centre

Close up of daylight shining on the face of a white horse, highlighting the horse's brown eye and the detail of the horse's hair. Blue skies are in the background.

aemi @ Belfast Film Festival 2023: SÚITÚ

11 November 2023 / The Black Box - Main Room 18-22 Hill Street Belfast BT1 2LA

This is a still from the film 'Contorno/ Contour' (2021) by Fábio Andrade. The image depicts an old stone wall that is predominantly in shades of grey, with various hues and textures. At the bottom of the wall, there is an abundance of green moss and a few small plants that cover most of its surface. In the middle of the image, there is a line of white snail shells resting on the mossy area at the base of the wall, positioned in a slightly alternating pattern from left to right. Above the shells, the wall continues towards the top of the image, with smaller patches of moss in some areas.

aemi & Mermaid Arts Centre present: Súitú

14 October 2023 / Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray

In-person film installation in Bray, Co. Wicklow, showing until 2 December, free entry

This is a still from the film 'A Human Certainty' (2021) by Morgan Quaintance. The image shows the cover of the book 'Naked City' (1945) by photographer and photojournalist Weegee. On the right-hand side of the frame, we can see the words 'Naked City' in large black text on a white background. On the left-hand side of the frame, there is a black and white photograph of lightning hitting a tower on a New York City skyline at night. A hand can be seen partially on the left side of the frame, with the thumb, index finger, and part of the middle finger visible and touching the photograph.

aemi & Filmform present: Súitú

6 October 2023 / Filmform, Stockholm

This is a still from the film ‘Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out’ (2020) by Irish filmmaker Lisa Freeman. The image depicts a solid neon green colour, with a blurred blue shape visible on the left side. On the right side, a digital letter W in a lighter shade of neon green appears to be floating, casting a shadow below itself.

aemi & South Tipperary Arts Centre present: Súitú

6 October 2023 / South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel

aemi & Galleri Format present: Súitú

4 October 2023 / Galleri Format, Malmö

This is a still from the film ‘Making Dust’ by Irish filmmaker Fiona Hallinan. The image depicts a portion of the demolished ‘Church of the Annunciation’ in Finglas, Co. Dublin. A metal frame and fragments of grey brick wall support the remaining structure. The centre of the image features large stained glass windows with metal dividers. The stained glass is brightly coloured and comprised of small abstract panels in shades of blue, pink, yellow, green, red, and brown. The sky in the background is a light grey colour.

aemi & IFI Documentary Festival Present: Making Dust

1 October 2023 / Irish Film Institute

This is a still from the film 'Cette maison (This House)' by Haitian-Canadian director Miryam Charles. In the image, a person with dark skin tone is seated in a room filled with green plants and colourful flowers in shades of pink, purple, orange, and white. Their hair is braided and secured at the ends with cream and brown beads. They are dressed in a pale purple t-shirt and seated at a diagonal angle to the camera. Their gaze is directed at a person just outside the frame, with only their left hand visible. With both hands outstretched, they are handing a bunch of white flowers to the unseen individual.

aemi & IFI present: Cette maison (This House)

20 September 2023 / Irish Film Institute

This is a still from Sofia Theodore-Pierce's short film 'Other Tidal Effects' (2021), featuring handwritten materials on overlapping cyanotype treated postcards. In the top half, a pink transparent plastic sheet with water droplets is placed over spidery handwriting. To the top left of the frame, there is a ceramic snake placed on light green and blue paper. On the bottom left-hand side of the frame, there is a transparent red plastic sheet with water droplets. It sits on small pieces of dried seaweed, as well as partially visible handwriting and a pale yellow tinted postcard with a stamp. A snail poking its head out of its shell is also visible crawling on top of the postcard, left of centre. On the bottom right-hand side of the frame, there is a dark green transparent plastic sheet that partially overlaps some of the materials on the bottom left. Beneath everything, there is a mottled blue sheet of paper, which is visible in the top left corner and bottom right of the frame.

aemi & Filmhuis Cavia present: Súitú

15 September 2023 / Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam

aemi & WORM present: Súitú

13 September 2023 / WORM, Rotterdam

The image is the title of the exhibition “Long time we’ve been working” and its opening dates 8th Sept - 11th Nov. The text is in black on a white background with a grid and yellow accent elements. The serif font of the text is adapted with abstract shapes and images drawn from the films in the exhibition including a figure’s shadow, a flower and a flowing paper ribbon.

Project Arts Centre, Cinenova, and aemi present: Long time we’ve been working / Tamall fada atá muid ag obair

8 September 2023 / Project Arts Centre

This is a video still from The Cesspool of Rapture, 2017, by artist Joseph Noonan-Ganley. The image shows a section of a dress created by English-American fashion designer Charles James (1906-1978). It reveals the waistline area of the dress, with a back seam connecting the bodice and skirt. The entire frame is filled with the brown dress. On the left side, folded material extends from the bodice seam to form the skirt, while the right side displays a silk-like section of the bodice with a back zipper.

AEMI & GAZE present: Lucid Notions

6 August 2023 / Irish Film Institute

This image is a still from the work-in-progress film 'May the Hills and the Heights Have You' by Susan Hughes. It features a close-up shot of a wet rocky area with daylight highlighting sections of the rock. The rock is coloured in various tones of grey and black, and the right section of the frame is out of focus.

aemi Rough Cut session – July 2023

27 July 2023 / Online

‘Súitú’ at Black Hole Studio, Roscommon

26 July 2023 / Black Hole Studio, Roscommon

This is a still from the short film 'Cabbage' (2023) by Irish filmmaker Holly Márie Parnell. This image features a side angle view of a man's face with light skin and brown hair in a lightly shadowed space. A bright spot of daylight illuminates his left eye, and we can also see part of his cheek and nose in the frame in the light shadow as he looks upwards. The background displays out-of-focus green foliage and dappled light.

aemi & The Model present: Súitú

15 July 2023 / The Model, Sligo

In-person film installation in Sligo showing until 8 September, free entry

aemi & IFI Present: Súitú

29 June 2023 / Irish Film Institute, Dublin

This is a still from the film 'Music for Solo Performer'(2022) by Jenny Brady. The image consists of two overlayed pictures, set against a large black background. In the front image, there is a woman undergoing EEG analysis. She is lying sideways on a white pillow, wearing a blue top. The woman has dark hair, light skin, and her eyes are closed. Various attachments secured with tape can be seen across her chin, temples, and forehead, with wires coming out of them. To the right of the frame, there is a cream-coloured wall, while to the left of the frame, there is a black area behind her. In the underlay image, there is another section of the same type of wall, displaying large red EEG analysis waves across its centre. At the bottom right corner of the frame, there is partially visible text in large black print that reads "EEG", with a dark area above it. The overall image has a vintage quality and colouring.

aemi & Docs Ireland present: Voice Recognition

25 June 2023 / Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast

This is a description of a painting titled Pintura En Askeaton, created by Argentinian artist Magdalena Jitrik in 2009. The artwork is an abstract composition that features a dynamic interplay of shapes and colours. Slanted rectangles dominate the painting, overlapping and intersecting with each other. The centre of the painting features a large trapezoid with a red circle inside, which enhances the artwork's sense of movement and energy. The colours used in the painting are bold and vibrant, with a range of blues, greens, reds, and yellows.

aemi & IFI present: The Sun Gives Without Asking, curated by Sean Lynch

19 April 2023 / Irish Film Institute, Dublin

This image is a still from the short film 'A Moment Twice Lived' by Irish filmmaker Martin Healy. The image depicts an elderly woman seated with her side to the camera, gazing at a painting. She wears a beige mack jacket, a beige scarf, and has her grey hair tied in a bun. In the background, there is a red antique chair wooden bookcase and wooden window shutters. The painting has a golden, antique-style frame with flowers, and appears to show the silhouette of a person standing against a fiery background, although it is unclear due to the angle. The woman appears to be deeply absorbed in the painting.

EAFFI 2023: Far Away Eyes & A Moment Twice Lived

2 April 2023 / Irish Film Institute, Dublin

This is a still from ‘Daisy: Queer Prophet of the Apocalypse’, a work-in-progress film by artist and filmmaker Venus Patel. The scene is set at dusk on a sandy beach, where a person is shown on their hands and knees, facing sideways towards a low pool of water. They are dressed in a bright blue skirt, and on their head, there is a large rectangular cardboard box painted with a crocodile head. The box is adorned with long green and blue streamers, and their image is reflected in the still water. In the background, we see a townscape and low hills under a cloudy grey sky, with the sun breaking through the clouds in the distance.

aemi Rough Cut session – March 2023

20 March 2023 / Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

A Black woman sits in a medical chair looking at a person coming towards her. A spot of light shines on her mouth.

aemi & Irish Film Institute: Kevin Jerome Everson

9 March 2023 / Irish Film Institute, Dublin

Black and white image of Cheryl Dunye, a Black person standing in front of a wall. Cheryl is wearing a long buttoned-up coat, with a white shirt collar showing, a hairband, and glasses. To the left of Cheryl is large black text in all capitals which reads THE EARLY WORKS OF CHERYL DUNYE.

aemi & Project Arts Centre present: The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye, selected and presented by Renèe Helèna Browne

4 February 2023 / The Cube, Project Arts Centre, Dublin

In-person screening programme + introduction by Renèe Helèna Browne

White text on a solid coral red background reads: Arts Council Film Funding Clinic & Career Interview with film artist Tadhg O’Sullivan, hosted by AEMI

Arts Council Film Funding Clinic & Career Interview with film artist Tadhg O’Sullivan, hosted by AEMI

20 January 2023 / Goethe-Institut, Dublin

Free in-person film funding information clinic

Richly vivid blue, green and purple colours blend into lush shapes evocative of natural forms

aemi Rough Cut session – November 2022

30 November 2022 / Online Event

aemi & Mayo County Council: Focus on Artist Film with Venus Patel

28 November 2022 / Online Event

Free online event for film artists based in Mayo

An ancient bog body is being scanned by a machine

aemi & Irish Film London present: In the long now

20 November 2022 / The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden, London

Cinema event in London with in-person programme introduction by aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick and filmmaker Patrick Hough

This is a still from the film '2 Channel Land' (2022) by Frank Sweeney. A person with strawberry blonde hair walks along an empty road that marks the border between two areas in Northern Ireland. The road's surface shifts from one shade of grey to another, clearly indicating the presence of a border line. It is a country lane is flanked by tall green bushes and trees on either side. The camera is positioned behind them, and there is a cloudy, grey-blue sky ahead. They are dressed in a white Stetson hat, sky-blue trousers, and an embellished sky-blue jacket with blue fringe on the sleeves. The jacket features an image of a radio transmitter on the back, surrounded by lightning bolts, a line drawing of the Irish border, clouds, grass, and soil.

aemi @ CIFF: Experimental Shorts 2 ‘Figure Ground Perception’

19 November 2022 / The Gate Cinema, Cork

New programme curated by aemi and including the premiere of aemi & Sirius Film Commission 2022 by Frank Sweeney + Q&A

Against a glowing warm sunset over a layer of cool clouds in the sky, an observatory hub in a circular shape forms a unique silhouette against the sky

aemi @ CIFF: Rock Bottom Riser – Fern Silva

19 November 2022 / Triskel Cinema, Cork

Irish premiere of Fern Silva's recent feature, followed by post-screening Q&A with the filmmaker Fern Silva

man with animal tattoos wearing a white t-shirt and a baseball cap looks into the lens of his bolex camera while shooting from a height. He's surrounded by green bushes and a stone arch bridge is in the background

aemi @ CIFF: Masterclass with Filmmaker Fern Silva ‘Environment Awareness’

18 November 2022 / Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh

A free masterclass with Fern Silva, aemi’s ‘international artist in focus’ at CIFF

aemi @ CIFF: Experimental Shorts 1 ‘Súitú’

17 November 2022 / The Gate Cinema, Cork

World premiere cinema event of aemi’s 2023 Tour + post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers

Two large snakes are entangled on a double bed

aemi @ CIFF: Exhibition by Fern Silva ‘Wayward Fronds’

11 November 2022 / Sample Studios at Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald Park, Cork

Free exhibition of work by Fern Silva, aemi's Artist-in-Focus at CIFF 2022, running for the duration of the festival

A male archaeologist with light skin kneels at his tripod and tools onsite during a dig in the bog

aemi & Galleri Format present: In the long now

28 October 2022 / Galleri Format, Malmö, Sweden

Film installation at Galleri Format between 28th October - 6th November + Q&A with Patrick Hough (Director of The Black River of Herself) and aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick

A psychedelic, energetic image of rich yellow colour forming line against the background a fiery ball in bright pink, purple and orange colours

aemi & Garter Lane present: In the long now

19 October 2022 / Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford

Cinema event in Waterford with in-person programme introduction by aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick

Lisa Freeman, Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off The Dance Floor screening on ‘aemi online’

19 October 2022 / Online

Screening for free on 'aemi online' until January 2023, available worldwide

White Hole, Eavan Aiken, image courtesy of the artist

aemi & Pálás present: In the long now

11 October 2022 / Pálás Cinema, Galway

Cinema event in Galway with in-person programme introduction by aemi Co-Director Alice Butler

A still from an analogue video of a child jumping on a beach. The child is wearing a tshirt and shorts and their image is doubled so they appear twice in repetition

aemi @ GAZE: Making & Unmaking

2 October 2022 / Light House Cinema, Dublin

In-person screening and Q&A with aemi, and Marcus Gambrill (Director of Masc.ing, Ireland), and Ryan Harman & Craig Hunter (Directors of FORT, USA)

A dark close-up image of a person's hands loosely clasping each other

aemi & VISUAL present: In the long now

23 September 2022 / VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow

Film installation at VISUAL's Digital Gallery, running until 8th January 2023

An organge can of a fizzy drink called Crush on the ground beside a person's foot wearing a grubby white running shoe

aemi & Filmhuis Cavia present: In the long now

16 September 2022 / Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

In-person cinema event in Amsterdam, Q&A with aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick and programme artists Eavan Aiken and Sandy Kennedy

Extreme close-up of a dog's eye, the dog has a nervousness about it

aemi & WORM present: In the long now

14 September 2022 / WORM, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

In-person cinema event in Rotterdam, Q&A with Tim Leyendekker, aemi Co-Director Alice Butler and programme artists Eavan Aiken and Sandy Kennedy

Colourful animation of a packed theatre with a waterfall and sky bursting with colour on-stagen

aemi & IFI present: ‘Nostril Thinking’ Experimental Animation selected by Orla Mc Hardy

7 September 2022 / Irish Film Institute

FULLY BOOKED Cinema screening + Q&A with the artist and specially made zine

Psychedelic image of a butterfly amid illuminous pink, orange, red, blue and purple colours

aemi & The Model present: In the long now

20 August 2022 / The Model, Sligo

In-person film installation in Sligo showing until 25 September, free entry

A blurry motion shot of two hands holding up a small black dog up against a white wall. The dog's legs and ears are splayed out.

Anita Delaney, Well screening on ‘aemi online’

27 July 2022 / aemi online

Screening for free on 'aemi online' until 18 October, available to international audiences with closed captions

aemi & ANNEX present: Framing Entanglement

11 July 2022 / Pálás Cinema, Galway

Free in-person cinema screening in Galway + Q&A with programme artists Edy Fung, Fiona Marron and Frank Sweeney

A still image from Myrid Carten's film called Sorrow had a baby. A young, white woman with long blonde hair sits in a chair and looks down at the white baby in her arms. The newborn baby is clutching the woman's finger and pulling it toward its open mouth. The woman is wearing a paisley print top in blue and brown colours, and a row of vinyl records is stored behind them.

aemi & Docs Ireland present: Come away, O human Child! Films selected by Myrid Carten

3 July 2022 / Queens Film Theatre, Belfast

In-person cinema screening in Belfast followed by Q+A with Ruairí McCann

A black and white image of a smiling elderly man with pale skin running through a corridor. He is running toward the camera and is wearing a blazer and dark stetson hat.

aemi & Triskel present: Jonas Mekas 100!

24 June 2022 / Triskel Cinema, Cork

In-person screening in Cork as part of Jonas Mekas Centennial Programme

A still image from Eva Richardson McCrea’s digital video artwork called Rope from 2022. The footage is shot inside a dilapidated room. A dark dado rail runs around the middle of the walls, which are pink below the dado rail and white above it. Water damage and dark mould severely affect the walls and the floor. In the centre of the sparse room, three men, all with light skin, balding hairlines and wearing smart casual clothing, sit around a black, rectangular table. The men are conversing with one another and they each eat takeaway food straight out of its disposable container. A bottle of champagne and glass tumblers are also on the table.

aemi & Project Arts Centre present: Artist Talk and Screening with Eva George Richardson McCrea

2 June 2022 / Project Arts Centre, Dublin (Gallery)

In-person screening and artist talk in Dublin

A still image from a video artwork by Michelle Hall. The image is a close-up of hundreds of candle tealights. The crumpled metal casings of the tealights shows that the candles have already been burned. A light purple colour is used as a filter over the whole image.

aemi Rough Cut session – May 2022

25 May 2022 / Online Event

A still image from Tessa Hughes Freeland’s black and white film Baby Doll from 1982. Two young, slim women with voluminous hair are dancing together beside a floor-to-ceiling mirror. One woman has blonde, shoulder-length, wavy hair and wears a light slip dress. She is smiling and extends one arm back above her head while gleefully stepping forward with the opposite leg. The second woman has shorter, black curly hair, she is leaning forward and is moving her shoulders and arms rhythmically. She is wearing a black knee-length skirt, a black bra top that shows her cleavage, and black high heel sandals. Strings of white pearls are wrapped around her neck and one ankle

aemi, IFI and TBG+S present ‘DIY, DISINTEGRATION & HYSTERIA: Punk and Feminist Cinema of the 1970s & 80s’ Curated by Rachel Garfield

17 May 2022 / Irish Film Institute, Dublin

FULLY BOOKED Cinema screening and introduction by Rachel Garfield at IFI, followed by a conversation at TBG&S

A still image from Bassam Al-Sabah’s CGI video artwork called Dissolving beyond the worm moon from 2019. In the centre of the image stands a life-size male figure. He is wearing a red, yellow and black cartoon-style tightly fitting suit complete with facial visor, chest plate, arm armour, a diamond shaped belt, and boots. His feet are apart and his back is arched as he looks upwards. He is standing on a grassy area in the middle of various varieties of trees and bushes. Shadows stretch across the image to reach the figure. The image is completely digitally rendered and is extremely detailed, with individual leaves reflecting sunlight and brown twigs lying amongst the blades of grass.

Bassam Al-Sabah, Dissolving beyond the worm moon

4 May 2022 / aemi online

Screening for free on 'aemi online' until 26 July, available worldwide

Building a Practice in Artist Film: session for graduating students/ emerging artists

27 April 2022 / Online Event

Presentations between 10am and 1pm
This free, online event is designed for graduating students and early career artists interested in working with artist film

A turtle is pictured in an interior room. The turtle is on the beige carpet. Behind it is a retro light brown leather three-seater sofa, a coffee table made from a wooden tabletop and metal legs, and a green bowl on the table.

aemi & Project Arts Centre present: Clear Away the Rubble / Glan an Spallaí ar Shiúl screening programme

21 April 2022 / Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Free film presentation running until 14 May

Zheng Lu Xinyuan, Jet Lag at East Asia Film Festival Ireland

3 April 2022 / Irish Film Institute

In-person cinema screening with introduction by aemi

Text in retro lilac and orange lettering reads: The Revivalist. The text is laid over the image of the face of a woman wearing red lipstick. The woman holds a theatrical facial expression. She is wearing purple gloves and uses her hands animatedly.

aemi Rough Cut session – March 2022

24 March 2022 / Online Event

A low concrete wall spans from the rocky sea shore down into the blue sea. Four men working together are standing in a group. They are looking over and beyond the wall, and are filming using two different professional cameras and audio equipment

Fergus Daly, The Mirror of Possible Worlds

16 February 2022 / aemi online

Screening until 3 May 2022, screening online free and worldwide

Opportunities for Film Artists: Funding and Access

21 January 2022 / Online

Presentations between 10am and 12:30pm
This online event is free and will include live captions

aemi & IFI present: So, what did you do today? Films selected by Isabel Nolan

12 January 2022 / Irish Film Institute, Dublin

In-person cinema screening

aemi Rough Cut session – December 2021

6 December 2021 / Online Event

aemi presents: ‘Profit & Loss’ 4Ever Chemical by Sibyl Montague

20 November 2021 / Project Arts Centre, Dublin

In-person video collage installation

aemi @ CIFF: Artist in Focus – Lynne Sachs

16 November 2021 / Online

Online programme 16 - 18 November

aemi @ CIFF: Contested Legacies – Lynne Sachs and Myrid Carten

10 November 2021 / Triskel Arts Centre Cinema

8pm Cinema screening and Q&A with both artists

Jaki Irvine, Star and Sweettooth

10 November 2021 / aemi online

Screening until 8 February 2022, screening online free and worldwide

aemi @ CIFF: In the long now, Tour 2022 world premiere

9 November 2021 / Triskel Arts Centre Cinema, Cork

Cinema screening & Q&A

aemi @ CIFF: Workshop with Lynne Sachs

9 November 2021 / Lecture Theatre, Crawford Art Gallery, Emmett Place, Cork

Day Residue: A Film-Making Workshop on the Every Day, in-person workshop in Cork

aemi & Pálás Cinema: Signals & Circuits

20 October 2021 / Pálás Cinema, Galway

Cinema screening event & introduction

aemi & Garter Lane Arts Centre: Signals & Circuits

13 October 2021 / Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford

In-person screening event & introduction

Jenny Brady, Receiver, 2019, 14:36 min, Ireland

Artist Breakfast Club, ‘Signals & Circuits’

6 October 2021 / The Model

Online event, free

aemi @ GAZE: Acts of Revelation

1 October 2021 / IFI@Home

Programme tickets available until Sunday 3 October

aemi & IFI: Free From Near or Far, selected by Pat Murphy

15 September 2021 / Irish Film Institute, Dublin

In-person screening and introduction

NCAD Graduate Showcase 2021

1 September 2021 / aemi online

A rolling programme with a new film screening every two weeks until 9 November, available to watch free worldwide

aemi @ Docs Ireland: The Films of Kino Rebelde

29 August 2021 / Ulster Museum, Belfast

In-person screening and introduction

aemi Ulster University Graduate Awards

25 August 2021 / Online screening

Films by the two BA and MFA awardees screening here until 31 October

aemi & TEST SITE: Architectural Heritage – Film Screening

14 August 2021 / TEST SITE, Kyrl's Quay, Cork

In-person screening

Michelle Doyle, Eva Richardson-McCrea & Coilin O'Connell with Jenn Moore, Yoga For The Eyes, 2018

aemi & The Model: Signals & Circuits

12 August 2021 / The Model, Sligo

In-person film installation 12 August - 10 October 2021

‘To be consumed in totality’ watch-along screening + Q&A with aemi, Kevin Gaffney & PhotoIreland

14 July 2021 / Online Event

18:15 Watch-along, 20:00 live Q&A

aemi Rough Cut session – July 2021

13 July 2021 / Online Event

‘To be consumed in totality’ curated by aemi & Kevin Gaffney, PhotoIreland Festival 2021

1 July 2021 / Online

Screening until 31 July, available to watch free worldwide

Niamh O’Malley, Glasshouse

30 June 2021 / aemi online

Screening until 31 August, available to watch free worldwide

Public Conversation: Lens, Digital and Post-Photographic Art – AEMI & NCAD Media Graduates 2021

25 June 2021 / Pavilion at IMMA

In-person live event

Aoibheann Greenan, Dingbox

28 April 2021 / aemi online

Screening until 29 June, available to watch free worldwide

Funding Opportunities for Film Artists

16 April 2021 / Online Event

Free event, presentations between 10am and 4:30pm

Seize Control of the Taj Mahal – Glenn Belverio (1991, 12 min)

‘2020: A Year in Review (Programme 2)’ Artists’ Q&A with Lynne Sachs, Rhea Storr, Glenn Belverio and Timothy Smith

8 April 2021 / Online Event

Watch-along and live Q&A

Laura Fitzgerald, P45, 2017, 16:10 min, Ireland

‘Signals & Circuits’ screening and Q&A with Laura Fitzgerald, VISUAL Carlow

7 April 2021 / Online Event

Free worldwide screening and Q&A

aemi Rough Cut session – March 2021

31 March 2021 / Online Event

Come Here / Jai jumlong, image courtesy of the director Anocha Suwichakornpong

Come Here / Jai jumlong directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong at EAFFI 2021

28 March 2021 / Online Event / IFI@Home

Available from Sunday 28th March 4:30 PM

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS Directed by LISA ROVNER

‘Sisters with Transistors’ with Dublin Feminist Film Festival & IFI@Home

5 March 2021 / Online Event

Screening online March 5th - March 9th 2021

2020: A Year in Review (Programme 2)

19 February 2021 / aemi-on-demand

Online until 18 April 2021

Emily McFarland, Curraghinalt, 2019/2020, HD, Colour, Sound, 26 Minutes

Emily McFarland, Curraghinalt, in partnership with EVA International

10 February 2021 / aemi online

Screening until 27 April 2021, available to watch free worldwide

2020: A Year in Review (Programme 1)

16 December 2020 / aemi-on-demand

Online until 28 February 2021

The 2020 Film London Jarman Award Touring Programme

14 December 2020 / Online Event

Screening online Monday 14th & Tuesday 15th December 2020

Michelle Doyle, Eva Richardson-McCrea & Coilin O'Connell with Jenn Moore, Yoga For The Eyes, 2018, 24:12, Ireland

aemi & VISUAL Carlow: Signals & Circuits

11 December 2020 / VISUAL Carlow

11 December 2020 - 31 January 2021

Jesse Jones, The Spectre and The Sphere (2008)

aemi & Isolation TV: Jesse Jones ‘We Interrupt This Apocalypse’

10 December 2020 / Online Event

Screening online December 10th 2020 - January 10th 2021

Orla McHardy, Goodnight

9 December 2020 / aemi online

Screening until 9 February 2021, available to watch free worldwide

Revenant Images, curated by Patrick Hough

7 December 2020 / aemi-on-demand

Available until 7 March 2021

aemi & Docs Ireland: Material legacies

9 November 2020 / Online Event

Screening online November 9th - 13th 2020

aemi & Cork International Film Festival: Signals & Circuits

9 November 2020 / Online Event

Screening online November 9th - 15th 2020

Bryony Dunne, Killing the Messengers

4 November 2020 / aemi online

Screening until 8 December, available to watch free worldwide

Margaret Again, installed at IMMA as part of Glen Dimplex exhibition, 1996, IMMA Archive

aemi & IMMA present Archives LIVE: Conservation in Motion

21 October 2020 / Online Event

Patrick Hough - And If In A Thousand Years

ONLINE EVENT: aemi & IFI present REVENANT IMAGES curated by Patrick Hough (IFI@Home)

14 October 2020 / Online Event / IFI@Home

aemi & IMMA present Archives LIVE: Artists Working with Archives

7 October 2020 / Online Event

Sibyl Montague, Profit and Loss (2013 - ongoing) I, II, III

Sibyl Montague, Profit and Loss (2013-2016) I, II, III, IV

7 October 2020 / aemi online

Screening until 3 November, available to watch free worldwide

aemi & GAZE LGBTQ+ FILM FESTIVAL

3 October 2020 / Lighthouse Cinema

Cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions

ONLINE EVENT: aemi & GAZE LGBTQ+ FILM FESTIVAL (IFI@Home)

3 October 2020 / IFI@Home

aemi Rough Cut session – September 2020

23 September 2020 / Online Event

Mieke Vanmechelen - Die Vrijheld (That Freedom), 2020

ONLINE EVENT: Culture Night 2020 : Online Discussion and Online Screening Event with m i n k

18 September 2020 / Online Event

Fiona Marron, After Automation

2 September 2020 / aemi online

Screening until 6 October, available to watch free worldwide

aemi Rough Cut session – July 2020

22 July 2020 / Online Event

Frank Sweeney, All I believe happened there was vision

22 July 2020 / aemi online

Screening until 1 September, available to watch free worldwide