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Saturday 9th June
Shorts Collection - For Better or For Worse...
Venue: Basement Space, Filmbase
Time: 1pm
- Beached Dir. Karl Golden 15'
- The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish
Dir. Andrew Legge 15'
- Green Fingers Dir. Terry O'Leary 6'
- Happy Birthday to Me Dir. Martin Mahon 13'
For better or for worse... Four shorts about that four letter word take us from the agony to the ecstasy - and back again!
Masterclass: 'The Art of Action'
with Roger Yuan
Venue: The Ark, Eustace Street
Time: 2 - 6pm
Cost: 20 euro
Internationally acclaimed actor, stunt coordinator and Action Choreographer Roger Yuan will host a Masterclass on behalf of Filmbase at The Ark in Temple Bar on Saturday 9th June as part of the Temple Bar Film Festival. This unique Masterclass opens up the world of Action Choreography to professional actors, potential stunt performers, Directors, Editors and Camera people. The objective is to provide a better understanding of camera angles and how a dynamic performance is best expressed and captured for film.
For more information on this masterclass click here.
Darklight Digital Selection
Venue: Basement Space, Filmbase
Time: 6.30pm
Programmed by Darklight Festival Director Nicky Gogan.
1. ANIMATION ART WANDERING
THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU (02:45)
BY KARL HUNTER
IRL
The artist is filmed each day holding up the front page of the daily newspaper.
He sings the song "The Very Thought of You" and as the song progresses, the lyrics of the song replace the words of the newspaper headlines. The film utilises the pop song's sentimental take on romantic obsession in combination with an idea of the heroic cult of adversity.
2. ANIMATION 2
DREAMS (03:41)
BY CATHERINE LITTLE
IRL
A short film illustrating the wash cycle of your head - laundry while you sleep.
72DPI AND THE REST OF THE WORLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW (03:32)
BY THERESA MAYER
IRL
We are in 72dpi, a place where our lives are dominated by square pixels. In this world, giving birth to a square child or even feeling a raindrop on your skin can be extremely painful. Legend has it, that the only way to cross over to the real world would be through a magic rainbow...
CARDIOID (03:18)
BY ISTVAN LASZLO
IRL
Cardioid is the digital recreation of a dream. The subject of this piece is losing our most important body part, symbolized by the heart. The body rises up from the darkness and slowly opens. The movements reflect pain. The chest splits open and the heart leaves the body. The heart disappears and the body falls back in to the darkness.
3. DARK SHORTS
DECEMBER, VERSION 1 (06:30)
BY ANITA DELANEY
IRL
By disrupting the usual genre of a chorus line display I wish to unsettle the viewer and question notions of what is being presented. Ideas of femininity, the male gaze and the body are also alluded to. The young dancing girls are supposed to be passive and pleasing yet they are somehow menacing and move with military precision and rhythm.
THE WINDOW (02:00)
BY CLARE SHANAHAN
IRL
Domestic discourse - investigating alienation in the household.
THE INTRUDER (1:10)
JOBY HICKEY
IRL
A character sees himself entering his house and killing him.
COVERED ROAD (02:49)
BY ANNE-MAREE BARRY
IRL
4. IRISH SHORTS
THERE'S AN EXTRAORDINARILY TALL MAN & AN EXTRAORDINARILY SHORT MAN THAT FOLLOW ME WHEREVER I GO (06:00)
BY LUKE FRANKLIN
IRL
An extraordinary tall man and an extraordinarily short man start following a third man (of average height) everywhere he goes, he tries to run and he tries to get rid of them, but nothing he does loses them. He grows accustomed to them, learns to live with them in his life and even likes them being there but then one day it occurs to him, what will he do if they leave?
5. MUSIC VIDEOS
PTERANODON (05:40)
BY ALAN LAMBERT
IRL
"Pteranodon" is a partner piece to "Quarterlight", from 2004. "Pteranodon" developed from "Pteranodon 14" - which amalgamates footage shot in Asia with images from recent wanderings into the Middle East . The soundtrack combines Arabian pop with Irish electronica and simple optical effects transform the water towers of Kuwait into architectural patterns reminiscent of the mandelbrot sets and fractals of Chaos.
CAL-TV: "IMAGINE THIS" (04:16)
BY: JOHN CALLAGHAN
IRL
"Imagine This" is an audio mash up of George W Bush singing the John Lennon classic "Imagine", it has been a worldwide hit and has made it into the BBC Radio 1 Music Festive 50 on UK Radio 1. The video gives us a lip-synching Bush interspersed with Iraq war footage, leaving a humorous but poignant take on the Iraq War.
DOUBLE ADAPTOR: "NANOWEBBERS" (02:49)
BY SEMICONDUCTOR
IRL
For '200 Nanowebbers', Semiconductor have created a molecular web that is generated by Double Adaptor's live soundtrack. Using custom-made scripting, the melodies and rhythms spawn a nano-scale environment that responds to the audio's resonances. Layers of energetic hand-drawn animations play over vector shapes that form atomic scale associations. As the landscape flickers into existence, substructures begin to take shape and resemble crystalline substances.
6. DOCUMENTARY FILMS
SKIZOHACKER (05:56)
BY EAMONN CRUDDEN
IRL
"Skizohacker (for the noise hacker)" combines elements of sci-fi, machinima, documentary and collage to explore and highlight the ongoing collapse of distinctions between virtual 'gamespaces', commercial databases and militarised urban spaces. It explores the way in which the US military utilises statistics
trackers to connect the real world identities of new recruits to their performance records within the ' America 's Army' gamespace.
7. ANIMATION 1
I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU (07:41)
BY CONOR MCINTYRE
IRL
Sam decides to plunge to his death from a cliff but is stopped when he gets snagged on a branch half way down. It is here he meets new love, in the form of Gweneth, who is also snagged by a branch. Together they grow a new lust for life until Sam falls to his death, leaving Gweneth to follow.
TRU LAV 01:00
BY LORCAN FINNEGAN
IRL.
Plenty of dirty toilet action goes on behind our backs, it's a sign of the times.
8. LIGHT SHORTS
THE BURDEN OF EXPECTATION (08:31)
BY WIL BRENNAN
IRL
This piece looks at how perception is linked to expectation. "Less than 50% of what we see is actually based on information entering our eyes. The remaining 50% plus is pieced together out of our expectations of what the world should look like. The eyes may be the visual organs, but it is the brain that sees."
42 ROTATIONS 01:56
ADRIAN & SHANE
IRL
Filmed at the Astoria (G-A-Y) in London on November 19th 2005 using a Canon IXUS 50 digital camera, which was originally meant to take a photograph. However, the camera was on the wrong setting and recorded a one second long accidental film instead! This film was edited using iMovies.
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