Illuminated Margins

The second edition of the Margenes Festival is taking place in Madrid late this month with selections of Spanish, Portuguese and Irish experimental cinema. Even if you can't make it, it's worth visiting the website. Particularly sublime is the potted history of Irish experimental filmmaking included in its pages.

My video Making a Home will be screened in the Irish shorts programme along with the work of several elders and comrades (not mutually exclusive categories!). Also, curator Esperanza Collado graciously saw fit to award me a curatorial credit for the discussions we had about choosing titles for this programme... But the real work was all hers!

EVERYWHERE (dead or alive?)

The Everywhere Trilogy is now complete, bringing this creative tangent to a close. But before returning to the substantial task of editing Private Report, it spawned one more video, a silent work of flickering visual abstraction called Dead or Alive?

Now I'm fully absorbed in finding out what this thing called Private Report is...