Post screening conversation @ IFI with Morgan Quaintance, Alice Butler & Michael Hill
Published date: 22 Sep 2026
aemi, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and IFI are proud to present the first screening of Jarman Award winning artist Morgan Quaintance’s Bourdieu, a new experimental feature made in tandem with ‘I’ll Always Remember…’, the artist’s exhibition at TBG+S running 2 October to 22 November.
Saturday 3rd October @ 13:30
As the artist writes, ‘At the centre of this film is the idea that time spent in unfamiliar cities or countries can reveal something about the constructed nature of your own, and the arbitrariness of social systems in general. For Pierre Bourdieu it was Algiers in the 1950s/60s; for me it was Chicago in the 1980s. Often this is framed as a negative condition, but here it’s positive. My film places viewers in the compelling centre of images, symbols and social impressions that produced this experience of estrangement and insight for me.’
This screening will be followed by an extended conversation with filmmaker Morgan Quaintance, joined by Alice Buter, aemi Creative Director and Michael Hill, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Programme Curator.
Film running time: 50 mins approx.
Book Tickets HERE
Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer.
His moving image, photography, performance and installation work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Sweden; Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent; Cafe OTO, London; International Film Festival Rotterdam; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami.
His practice remains responsive to contemporary experience and so largely eschews the rehearsal of set themes. However, interests in the human condition, the cultic milieu, counterculture, ethnography, the built environment, Afro-Caribbean, African American, East Asian and British histories are all mainstays.
He was the recipient of the 2025 Jarman Award. He was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow. He was the recipient of the 2022 ARTE Award at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg; in 2021, the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Tacoma Film Festival, USA; the Explora Award at Curtocircuito International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela; the UK Short Film Award at Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, the Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director at Punto de Vista, Spain, and the Best Experimental Film Award at Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal; in 2020, the New Vision Award atCPH:DOX, Denmark and the Best Experimental Film award at Curtas Vila Do Conde, Portugal .
Over the past fourteen years, his critically incisive writings on contemporary art, aesthetics and their socio-political contexts have featured in publications including Art Monthly, the Wire, the Guardian, numerous others that it’ll be too boring to list here, and helped shape and influence the UK’s new landscape of progressive cultural discourse and debate. A key reference here is his 2017 text The New Conservatism: Complicity and the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression, available via the main page.
‘汾阳的喧嚣: Ironic Resonance, Anti-sound Design and Radical Cacophony in Jia Zhangke’s 小 Xiao 武 Wu’ (2024) is Quaintance’s first book. It is available to purchase here.
From 2012 – 2023 he was the producer and presenter of Studio Visit, an interview-based, broadcast radio programme for London’s Resonance 104.4FM. The post-broadcast archive of over 100 interviews can be found here, and includes in depth conversations with Carolee Schneemann, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jimmie Durham, Susan Hiller, Jean Fisher, Andrea Fraser, Kathleen Daniel and Billy Woodberry.
Quaintance’s films are distributed by LUX, London.
Alice Butler is a curator, programmer, writer and lecturer. In 2016 she co-founded aemi and since then has served as co-director of the organisation with Daniel Fitzpatrick. aemi is an Arts Council-funded organisation that supports and regularly screens work by artist and experimental filmmakers. Previously, Alice worked at the Irish Film Institute where she curated film seasons and had responsibility for artist film programming. Between 2019 and 2025 Alice led the Experimental Film Module with Dr Conor O’Kelly in the School of Creative Arts at Trinity College Dublin and is currently teaching on ‘Through Another Lens’, a module on experimental film devised for Dr Sven Anderson’s MPhil on Digital and Intermedia Practices at TCD.
Alice is a regular film lecturer and film programmer for the Hugh Lane Gallery. She curated ‘The L Shape’ at The Dock in 2018 featuring work by film artists Jenny Brady and Sarah Browne and guest curated ‘Return to Disintegration’ at Pallas Projects in 2021. Alice has written on film for Sight and Sound, VDrome, Paper Visual Art, CIRCA and Enclave Review as well as texts for publications on the work of artists Saskia Holmkvist, Atoosa Pour Hosseini and Colin Martin. She wrote the career survey chapter for a recently published book on filmmaker Pat Murphy and a catalogue text about Sylvia Schedelbauer for Oberhausen International Film Festival 2022 when she was also a member of the festival’s jury for the international competition.
Michael Hill is Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland, and one half of the curatorial team (with Clíodhna Shaffrey) that represented Ireland at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022, and Irish Tour 2023, with artist Niamh O’Malley.
He has curated exhibitions at Interface, Inagh; Weatherproof, Chicago; The Model, Sligo; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Pallas Projects, Dublin; and he was an invited participant of the Curatorial Exchange at EXPO Chicago and Verein K Visiting Curators Vienna in 2025. His writing has been published in Winter Papers, OVER Journal and Visual Artist’s News Sheet. He maintains an occasional independent publishing and graphic design project, 100 Years Ago Today, that includes books, postcards and music releases.
