The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Workshops
• Date: Saturday, October 10th 2009
• Time: 11:00am
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in DATA & IMOCA Presents: Hardware Hacking – Video & Interactivity Workshop
• Venue: IMOCA, Lad Lane (Off Baggot Street), Dublin 2
• Country: IE
• Admission: €30
• Notes: This workshop runs until 5pm.
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The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art’s Education Department and the Darklight Festival 2009 presents: Hardware Hacking: Video & interactivity Workshop lead by Benjamin Gaulon aka Recyclism. A workshop for the creation of Interactive video installations using Hacked Game controllers and a custom made software – no technical skills are required.

Admission: €30 (no concs)

NB: Places are extremely limited – advance booking is advised via the DATA website.

More about Benjamin Gaulon AKA Recyclism HERE.

The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Screenings
• Date: Thursday, October 8th 2009 - Friday, October 9th 2009
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in Darklight: The Festival Club
• Venue: Dice Bar, Queen Street, Smithfield
• Country: IE
• Admission: Free
• Notes: The Festival Club is open all weekend.
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This year’s Darklight gin joint of choice is Smithfield’s legendary Dice Bar, located on Queen Street. Join us after the divine madness of the day’s events for a pint of plain, a bag of crisps and a friendly chat. What’s more, on Saturday afternoon we’re screening DJ Spooky’s Rebirth Of A Nation. Make sure you say hello to Joe.

The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Screenings
• Date: Friday, October 9th 2009 - Saturday, October 10th 2009
• Time: 7:30pm
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in Buddha Bag VHS Amnesty & Movie Lounge
• Venue: Light House Cinema
• Country: IE
• Admission: Free
• Notes: This event runs all weekend.
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More about Buddha Bag here.

While you’re in the Light House, take a moment in the lobby to flake out on a Buddha Bag and enjoy some cool short films from emerging filmmakers. Or why not take advantage of our VHS Video Amnesty? Drop off an old VHS tape or enjoy some classics from the vaults.

BUDDHA BAG LOUNGE PROGRAMME 2009

The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Screenings
• Date: Saturday, October 10th 2009
• Time: 7:30pm
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in Darklight Presents: New Animated Shorts 2
• Venue: Light House Cinema
• Country: IE
• Admission: €10
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Darklight showcases recent animations from emerging and established talents from Ireland and across the globe. Fact: it’s a good year for animation.

New Animated Shorts Part Two: The Screening Program

I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (4′27)
by David O’Reilly/Ireland

The Scaffolder Falls (8′25)
by Johnny Gogan/Ireland

Tie Me Up In Blankets (3′20)
by Eoghan Kidney/Ireland

Dix (7′08)
by Bif/France/UK

Guns, Bee & Tadpoles (5′26)
by John Mc Closkey/NI

Postman Returns (2′22)
by Mischa Rozema/Netherlands

The Polish Language (8′10)
by Alice Lyons & Orla Mc Hardy/Ireland

Asomnie (6′30)
by Y’ Bertrand & D. Serban/France

Oedipe (8 ‘45)
by Capuchine/Japan/France

My Day (2′17)
by Eamonn O’Neill/Ireland

Trolley Boy (3′54)
by Teemu Auersalo/Ireland

My Drive Thru (2′29)
by Psyop/US

Parachute Ending (3′19)
by Steve Scott/UK

Video Games (5′26)
by Musclebeaver/Germany

Donkey (5′30)
by Louise Bagnall/Ireland

We Are Men (2′59)
by Sam Boyd/Ireland

Wujeck/Uncle (8′00)
by Maciej Sznabel/Poland

In Aporia (3′34)
by Michal Ronen/Israel

Two Princesses (8′52)
by Maria Stepanova/Russia

The Count (4′00)
by Fergal Brennan/Ireland

Unpredictable Behaviour (5′00)
by Ernst Weber & Pasha Shapiro/Germany/US

Fishing (1′40)
by Michael Moseley/UK

The Seed (2′07)
by Johnny Kelly (Ireland)

NB: This program may be subject to change.

The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Live Events
• Date: Saturday, October 10th 2009
• Time: 5:00pm
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in The Sound Of Concrete
• Venue: Court Yard Restaurant, Smithfield
• Country: IE
• Admission: Free
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How much are we willing to give up in the name of urban transport? No answers here; the result has just been recorded in an audio/visual collage. This is the second collaborative film project by musician George Brennan and animator Fergal Brennan.

NB: This performance is approximately 15 minutes in length.

The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Live Events
• Date: Saturday, October 10th 2009
• Time: 3:00pm
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in The Geek Lounge
• Venue: Court Yard Restaurant, Smithfield
• Country: IE
• Admission: Free
• Notes: This event is open to both geeks and nerds.
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Get your geek on as the cream of the capitals nerds gather to get a little bit too excited about new technologies. Eternal nerd Fionn Kidney leads an informal salon featuring creatives, artists, technologists and marketeers raving on about the latest applications, tools and current and future trends in technology and modern culture. Participants welcome!

The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Live Events
• Date: Friday, October 9th 2009
• Time: 7:00pm
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in Synth Eastwood Present: Animators Anonymous
• Venue: The Joinery, Arbour Hill
• Country: IE
• Admission: Free
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To complement their curated animation package at Darklight, the Dublin based music, art & technology group Synth Eastwood host an open discussion with established and up and coming animators about their work and animation in Ireland today. Guests include Fergal Brennan, D.A.D.D.Y, Lovely Productions & Chris Judge.

Audience participation is welcomed.

More about Synth Eastwood HERE.

The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Screenings
• Date: Friday, October 9th 2009
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in Synth Eastwood Present: New Animation Shorts I
• Venue: Light House Cinema
• Country: IE
• Admission: €10
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Curated by Dublin-based music, art & technology group Synth Eastwood, this eclectic programme showcases recent animations from both emerging and established talents from Ireland and across the world. The program, in full:

SYNTH EASTWOOD PRESENT: THE RUNNING ORDER

Backwards (5:00)
by Aaron Hughes

Divers (3:07)
by Paris Mavroidis

Chick (5:00)
by Michal Socha

Morris & The Other (4:00)
by Edwin Rostron

Lebensander (6:00)
by Angela Steffen

Illuminated Sorrow (2:00)
by Masha_sha

The Vinny Club (2:09)
by Digital Beast

Debt (14:13)
by Mike Weiss

Rendezvous (4:17)
by Alfred Dieler

From The Ground Up In Order, Embrace (1:39)
by Nick Briz

Teabreak (3:00)
by David Grannell

The Office Environment (5:24)
by Mark Mullery

Ease My Mind (3:47)
by Paddy Cahill/Jules Hackett

She Who Measures (6:40)
by Veljko Popovic

Lunch (17:20)
by Ana Husman

Where’’s Your Head At (6:00)
by Max Hattler

Sea of Glass (3:45)
by Sean Vicary

More about Synth Eastwood HERE.

The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Screenings
• Date: Friday, October 9th 2009
• Time: 7:30pm
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in Savage
• Venue: Light House Cinema
• Country: IE
• Admission: €10
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Dir: Brendan Muldowney/Ireland/2009/88 mins

Brendan Muldowney’s remarkable low-budget feature debut is uncompromising in its portrait of the violent underbelly of city life in Ireland. With echoes of Taxi Driver, Savage unfolds with a palpable sense of dread to a devastating climax. The best Irish feature film of 2009? We think so.

Paul Graynor (Darren Healy), an alienated press photographer who lives and works in an unfriendly and threatening city, becomes victim to a serious crime. Finding himself the subject, rather than the purveyor of an inner city tabloid story, Paul tries to come to terms with his attack, though the scars – both psychological and physical prove impossible to heal. His only hope of recovering his tenderness is in his burgeoning relationship with Michelle, a nurse who he met through her caring for Paul’s once violent, but now infirm father. Savage is an exploration of violence and masculinity, and studies, in forensic detail, Paul’s metamorphosis, from victim to avenger.

NB: This screening will be introduced by the filmmakers.

The Details!

• Film: Darklight Schedule of Events
• Event: Live Events
• Date: Friday, October 9th 2009
• Time: 7:00pm
• City: Darklight Schedule of Events in DATA Presents: A New Media Nostalgia
• Venue: Cobblestone Pub, Smithfield
• Country: IE
• Admission: Free
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A Dublin Art and Technology Association panel discusion @ Darklight ‘09: The use of the newest technology in art is still sometimes viewed with suspicion - only when a technology becomes both ubiquitous and mainstream is it fully accepted. When a technology becomes obsolete, a futher transformation occurs and it becomes invested with a certain artistic value. Brand new technologies in their day – think the slide projector, the 16mm projector and the needle on the record – all carry with them now this repurposed sense of artistic significance. What will happen, however, when analogue technology is no longer a point of comparison or recollection? The Big Question: is it already time already for a new media nostalgia?

More on DATA HERE.