Like james joyce and his use of stream of consciousness to visualize the world as the syrupy atmosphere it is, the Experimental Film Society based in Dublin Ireland has taken to heart this visualization, but doused it with a Dogme 95 angle. Using only a bare minimum of resources in landscapes laden with emotion and solitude, the Experimental Film Society's films propel the viewer into a foggy cinema where traditional techniques remain ever at the peripheral. One becomes a part of their cinemat...
Like james joyce and his use of stream of consciousness to visualize the world as the syrupy atmosphere it is, the Experimental Film Society based in Dublin Ireland has taken to heart this visualization, but doused it with a Dogme 95 angle. Using only a bare minimum of resources in landscapes laden with emotion and solitude, the Experimental Film Society's films propel the viewer into a foggy cinema where traditional techniques remain ever at the peripheral. One becomes a part of their cinematic world, examining process while seeking a way to make ends meet if not simply existing in "seeking".
What is cinema if not an escape? Is it not also then a different window into something that could be, something else that is? Are we not all voyeurs on the journey that is Film?
Repressed Cinema beckons all to come see the visions laid out by the minds of the Experimental Film Society. The world will not be the same as when you entered.
Experimental Film Society (EFS) is an independent, not-for-profit entity specializing in avant-garde, independent and no/low budget filmmaking. It was founded in 2000 in Tehran, Iran by Rouzbeh Rashidi and has been based in Dublin, Ireland since 2004. It unites works by eight filmmakers scattered across the globe, whose films are distinguished by an uncompromising devotion to personal, experimental cinema. They have in common an exploratory approach to filmmaking where films emerge from the interplay of sound, image and atmosphere rather than traditional storytelling techniques. Although an international organization, Experimental Film Society is notably at the centre of a new wave of Irish experimental filmmaking and crucial in fostering a radical emerging Iranian underground cinema.
http://www.experimentalfilmsociety.com/
Tuesday March 17th
7:30pm
$8
Tonight's films will be from:
Rouzbeh Rashidi - "Homo Sapiens Project 157"
Vicky Langan and Maximilan Le Can - "Dirt"
Dean Kavanah - "The Distance"
Michael Higgins - "Funnel Web Family"
Rouzbeh Rashidi is an Iranian filmmaker based in Dublin. He has been making films since 2000 when he founded the Experimental Film Society in Tehran. Since then, he has worked completely apart from any mainstream conceptions of filmmaking. He strives to escape the stereotypes of conventional storytelling and instead roots his cinematic style in a poetic interaction of image and sound. He generally eschews scriptwriting, seeing the process of making moving images as exploration rather than illustration. His work is also deeply engaged with film history. http://rouzbehrashidi.com/
Maximilian Le Cain is an experimental filmmaker based in Cork, Ireland. He frequently works in partnership with sound/performance artist Vicky Langan. He also has collaborative projects with Esperanza Collado (Operation Rewrite) and Karen Power (Gorging Limpet). He was film programmer for ‘Black Sun’, Cork’s regular experimental music/film event, and editor of Cork Film Centre’s online experimental film journal Experimental Conversations.
http://maximilianlecain.com/
Vicky Langan is an Irish artist whose practice operates across several often overlapping fields, chiefly live art, sound, and experimental film. Also a curator, she is known for ‘Black Sun’, a regular weirdo/outer limits music/film night that took place in Cork and through which she brought many renowned makers of strange sounds from around the world to play in Ireland for the first time. http://www.vickylangan.com/
Dean Kavanagh is an independent experimental filmmaker from Wicklow, Ireland. He became a member of the international filmmaking collective ‘Experimental Film Society’ in 2008. Since then he has completed over 50 short films and 5 at feature length, which have been screened worldwide. His work is intensely visual, creating detailed atmospheres that respond to the interaction between space, time and the human body. Rural and domestic themes diaphanously sheath a rigorously formalistic interplay between sound and image.
http://www.deankavanagh.com/
Dublin based Michael Higgins has been making films for ten years. He is interested in using the filmmaking process to rupture the reality of the everyday, bringing to light alternative ways of seeing and experiencing. He is currently completing his ninth feature film, At One Fell Swoop.
www.mgmh.me
