TRAILERS @ Cork Film Festival

Great news! Rouzbeh Rashidi's experimental epic Trailers is to premiere at Cork Film Festival this November 13th. A piece I wrote on it has appeared in the The Irish Examiner and can be read here:

http://trailersthefilm.tumblr.com/post/152501863600/trailers-irish-examiner-29102016-special

MExIndex

An important new resource for Irish artists' moving image:

MExIndex is a searchable online database with free access to key information and writing on experimental and visual arts-based moving image works by Irish artists, by artists living in Ireland and on subject matter relating to Irish history, politics, culture and society:

http://www.mexindex.ie/

Support Ossang!

The magnificent FJ Ossang, one of cinema's truly great poets, is seeking help to complete his next feature.

I want to see this film so badly it hurts! Please cough up:

https://www.touscoprod.com/fr/9doigts

Pierre Étaix (1929 - 2016)

It seems hardly a week can pass this year without the disappearance of one of the great living monuments of cinema. Andrzej Wajda last week and now the sublime Pierre Étaix is gone... Rest in peace.

Cloud of Skin @ STUFF

Very happy to announce that Cloud of Skin will be screened at STUFF (South Texas Underground Film Festival) next month. Full information here.