25 voices from 16 countries, respond to an invitation to express their view for a new world, in a poetic documentary that explores, and acknowledges, the importance of personal viewpoint and individual ideologies of hope, and for change.
They say that neurotic behaviour is typically within socially acceptable limits, so how do you solve the puzzles in your head while being ''normal''? A film that explores the borders between the different ways a mind can be scattered.
Popular culture depicts "a bride" as something most women aspire to be one day; a status celebrated with a glamorous day shared with family/friends. This piece delves beneath the surface and explores beauty, trepidation, loneliness, purity, sexuality, sadness, commitment and many more themes we wouldn't associate with the word "bride".
'Normal Behaviour will be resumed after the break...'
But what is ‘normal’ when you split up with someone? You try hard to forget them. Everyone encourages you to get over them. But do you really want to get over them? How can you find a balance between forgetting and remembering?
'70 Virginis' is an experimental science fiction film created from still photographs. It tells the story of an assassin in a post-apocalyptic world. She undertakes a contract which becomes impossible to complete as her intended victim starts multiplying.
I Could Read the Sky a film about music, madness memory, love and loss, a haunting story of immigration.
I Could Read the Sky is adapted from the photographic novel of the same name which has been recently published to rave reviews and explores the sense of identity, loss and exile. It is the moving story of an old man living in a bedsit in London, remembering his life, growing up on the West coast of Ireland and his journey to London.
The film unravels the strange twisting drama of a working man's life. It moves from a decaying rural past to a vividly modern present, driven by a dynamic music soundtrack that draws from both, and a simple flowing lyrical story telling. It is the state of memory that the film evokes, not memory as re-enactment but as texture. The film gets to the essence of how we remember. Memory as fragments, as details and layers, memory that comes at you out of the dark. From behind closed eyes, with its abstractions of light and form and sudden moments of precise clarity, taking us on an inward, visually extraordinary labyrinthine journey to the film's end.
The film stars the acclaimed Irish writer Dermot Healy and includes cameos from actors Maria Doyle Kennedy, Brendan Coyle and Stephen Rea, writer Pat McCabe (Butcher Boy) and the author Timothy O'Grady and photographer Steve Pyke.
In King Hayle I the camera navigates around a statue of Emperor Haile Sellassie I, acting as a pivotal device to which spectators visually anchor themselves. King Hayle I is an attempt at repairing the umbilical cord between the praxis of art, life and spirituality . . .
A woman travels both physically and literally in an interior space of several rooms. The film explores the space between self present cohesion and split subjectivity. The fantastical merges with claustrophobic domestical ritual.
