Following on from its screening with CIFF, ‘In the long now’ will travel to a number of venues and festivals both in Ireland and abroad. Featuring work by Alee Peoples, Eavan Aiken, Jeamin Cha, Sandy Kennedy, Sylvia Schedelbauer and Patrick Hough, ‘In the long now’ explores ideas relating to love, liveness, mortality and the act or technological process of seeing beyond the limits set by our physical abilities.
‘In the long now’ tour dates
Cork International Film Festival
9th November 2021, cinema event + Q&A with aemi and filmmakers Eavan Aiken, Patrick Hough, Sandy Kennedy
The Model, Sligo
20th August – 24th September 2022, film installation
VISUAL, Carlow
23th September – 8th January 2023, film installation
WORM, Rotterdam
20:30 Wednesday 14th September 2022, cinema event + Q&A with Tim Leyendekker, aemi Co-Director Alice Butler and filmmakers Eavan Aiken and Sandy Kennedy
Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam
20:30 Friday 16th September 2022, cinema event + Q&A with aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick and filmmakers Eavan Aiken and Sandy Kennedy
Pálás Cinema, Galway
6:30pm 11th October 2022, cinema event + introduction by aemi
Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
6:30pm 19th October 2022, cinema event + introduction by aemi
Galleri Format, Malmö
28th October – 6th November 2022, film installation + Q&A with aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick and filmmaker Patrick Hough
Irish Film London
6pm 20th November 2022, The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden, cinema event + introduction by aemi and filmmaker Patrick Hough
Film info
Alee Peoples, Standing Forward Full, 2020, USA, 5 minutes 38 seconds
Eavan Aiken, White Hole, 2021, Ireland, 13 minutes
Jeamin Cha, Ellie’s Eye, 2020, Korea/ USA, 11 minutes
Sandy Kennedy, The Incorporeal Body of a Shadow Soul, 2021, Ireland, 12 minutes
Sylvia Schedelbauer, Labor of Love, 2020, Germany, 12 minutes
Patrick Hough, The Black River of Herself, 2020, Ireland/ UK, 27 minutes
Running time 82 minutes
Alee Peoples, Standing Forward Full
A helter skelter is an amusement ride with a spiral slide built around a tower. Like this film, an exorcism attempt of an unrequited desire, itʼs either moving too fast or at a complete standstill. Disorienting but exciting.
Eavan Aiken, White Hole
Human and animal kin are instrumentalised; units of production, their substrate exhausted. Can we conceive a future where technology serves all and look forward with Promethean vigour?
White Hole spirals through space and time, seeking the ideal moment for opportunity.
Jeamin Cha, Ellie’s Eye
Ellie’s Eye is an essay video comprising found and original footage. This film interrogates how future societies and technologies can approach psychological issues of different individuals, and whether we are objectifying the human psyche itself.
Sandy Kennedy, The Incorporeal Body of a Shadow Soul
Based on memories and experiences of innocent women harmed by patriarchal ideologies in Irish culture, The Incorporeal Body of a Shadow Soul is a film poem, imagining the half life of a soul unable to escape the time and place of her wounding.
Sylvia Schedelbauer, Labor of Love
An expanding feeling, unfolding new inflections — forever different, forever changing.
Patrick Hough, The Black River of Herself
When an archaeologist is sent to excavate the remains of an Iron Age bog body, he finds the unexpected. The bog body has awakened to deliver him a stark warning; he must confront the impending storm of ecological collapse or face unfathomable disaster.
Text by Gwen Burlington
The programme is accompanied by a new text by Gwen Burlington which looks closely at what each film means in relation to life and death cycles – from more human-centric experiences to the impacts of climate change on the planet across space and time.
Download the essay:
Gwen Burlington, ‘In the long now’ aemi Tour 2022 (Word doc)
Gwen Burlington, ‘In the long now’ aemi Tour 2022 (PDF)
