EGGSHELLS @ Phantoscope

The upcoming edition of Phantoscope, Triskel Christchurch Cinema's quarterly experimental film programme, ties in with a season of films by the great horror director Tobe Hooper. We're delighted to be screening Eggshells (1969), Hooper's experimental feature debut this October 17th at 6.15pm.

This psychedelic snapshot of 1960s counterculture was once believed lost and is now receiving its Irish theatrical premiere in a beautifully restored presentation. It will be accompanied by two early Hooper short films.

I'm also particularly delighted to see that the magnificent Eaten Alive (1977) is also being screened as part of the season on October 29th.

EFS @ WORM, Rotterdam

Filmwerkplaats: Experimental Film Society Programme

Wed October 31st, Doors: 20:00 (Start: 20:30, End: 23:00)
WORM, Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam €6.00

A programme of Experimental Film Society films will screen at Filmwerkplaats, WORM in Rotterdam this October.

Experimental Film Society (EFS) is a group of filmmakers dedicated to the creation of uncompromisingly personal, formally challenging filmmaking. Based in Dublin, it operates as a company for the production, archiving and promotion of films by associated artists and filmmakers. EFS filmmakers experiment with cinema and they allow it equally to experiment on them, creating richly experiential works that chart an uncomfortable territory that is at once uncannily familiar and utterly alien. This programme also features a short by The Underground Film Studio, the home of projects by filmmaking duo Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais.

Filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain will be there in person to give a quick talk and answer questions.

WORM is a physical and mental state of being that offers hangouts that offer a workable alternative to dominant cultural movements. From here they clearly state, and distribute their mission, artistic practice, and legacy. Filmwerkplaats is WORM’s own artist-run film lab. A workspace dedicated to DIY analogue practice, geared towards artists interested in film as an expressive, physical medium. Their screening programme encompasses a wide range of subject matter, showing works by members and guest-filmmakers throughout the year.

1. Universal Film (2018), Jann Clavadetscher, 4mins, Ireland
2. The Family Vault of James Hyland (2017), Michael Higgins, 14mins, Ireland
3. INT. LANDSCAPES (2018), Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais, 9mins, Ireland/Portugal
4. Refining the Senses (2017), Atoosa Pour Hosseini, 12mins, Ireland/Switzerland
5. Homo Sapiens Project (161-170) (2013), Rouzbeh Rashidi, 8 min, Ireland
6. Brine Twice Daily (2015), Vicky Langan & Maximilian Le Cain, 20mins, Ireland

SCORPION'S STONE @ The Guesthouse, Cork

Scorpion's Stone will first confront the public on Thursday September 27th at 2pm in The Guesthouse, Cork. 

Scorpion’s Stone - a film that was never there... Four years in the making, this is Maximilian Le Cain’s most ambitious and challenging work to date. A mysterious underworld is evoked through the aura of obscure abandoned tapes and fictionalized video diaries to reveal the traces of a full-blown B-movie serial. Sounds and images that might mean everything or nothing hover between life and death, as do the characters that drift through them. Over its six-hour running time, Scorpion’s Stone makes use of multiple rhythms and visual textures to repeatedly evoke and dissolve narrative traces. The result is a unique meditation on the haunting malleability of forgotten sounds and images.

This Experimental Film Society production’s cast is headed by John McCarthy, Rouzbeh Rashidi and Vicky Langan, and reads like a who’s who of a particular Irish underground film scene. It was made with the support of Farzad Fahim, Lictenberg Studios (Berlin) and Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris). 

To find out more, read the review by Nikola Gocić or take a look at the trailer.

Nikola Gocić on SCORPION'S STONE

Not only has expert chronicler of Experimental Film Society cinema Nikola Gocić done a heroic job of writing about my new film Scorpion's Stone. He also created this wonderful collage in response to it.

"Challenging on every level imaginable...it could be labeled as a cinematic equivalent of ancient ruins from a parallel dimension." Read on: https://bit.ly/2Nbx9th 

INSIDE & BRINE TWICE DAILY @ Academia das Musas, Brazil

Delighted to announce that the Langan/Le Cain films Inside and Brine Twice Daily will be screened by the Cineclube Academia das Musas in Porto Alegre, Brazil on October 13th. This thoughtfully programmed film club concentrates on films made by women. Screening details can be found here.