POINT OF DEPARTURE on RTÉ TV

The TV cut of Point of Departure, my Cork Film Centre/RTÉ Short Script Award winning short film built around Anna Manahan in her last starring role, is scheduled to be screened this Monday, May 30th on RTÉ 2 at 23.45.

For more on this film, follow this link and scroll down the page a little:

http://experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

DESK 13 Completed

Desk 13, my latest collaboration with Vicky Langan, is now complete.

This unsettlingly erotic reverie will be premiered at the (An)Other Irish Cinema screening taking place in Dublin next Friday, May 27th:

http://hellooperator.org/wordpress/?p=630

HOTEL LA MIRAGE @ Cherry Kino

Hotel La Mirage will be screening in the UK as part of a programme of works originating on Super-8 selected by Cherry Kino as part of the Saltaire Arts Trail in Bradford, and at the Cherry Kino Lab in Leeds during the last weekend of May.

For more information:

http://www.cherrykino.blogspot.com/

Charles Dekeukeleire

Generally, I use this blog as a record of my own activities and only very exceptionally discuss other films on it- otherwise, there'd be no bloody end to it!

But I'd like to briefly remark on my discovery of two experimental films, two comparatively little-known masterpieces from the late '20s, by Belgian filmmaker Charles Dekeukeleire: Impatience (1929) and Histoire de détective (1930). To say that these works have been the cinematic revelation of the year for me will probably prove an understatement. Although they deserve to be as famous as Un Chien Andalou, they're so far ahead of their time and still so formally radical that it's easy to see how they managed to slip into relative obscurity.

For more background, see this article by Kristin Thompson:

http://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/dekeukeleire.php

New Work at (An)Other Irish Cinema Screening

Hello Operator, Dublin, will be presenting and (An)Other Irish Cinema screening on May 27th. This screening will feature a new programme, including the premieres of two of my recent works: Background and , in collaboration with Vicky Langan, Desk 13. The above still comes from this work, now almost out of post-production...!

For more details:

http://hellooperator.org/wordpress/?p=630

Experimental Film Society Honorary Membership

Rouzbeh Rashidi has very kindly offered me honorary membership of his organisation, Experimental Film Society.

Here's a description of this filmmaking community:

Experimental Film Society is an independent film production company (Non-profit organisation) specialized in avant-garde, independent & no/low budget filmmaking. Experimental Film Society was founded in 2000 in Tehran / Iran. The aim is to provide a production and marketing assistance to independent filmmakers who are EFS members. All the materials and films in this society are original and had made by EFS filmmakers. The current office of EFS is in Dublin / Ireland.