Film

Michael Connerty Presents: Contemporary Animation, the Best of Annecy 2010

Saturday 30 October, 1pm IFI

Michael Connerty has picked an unmissable selection from this year’s Annecy festival and thrown in some additional treats. Come and see some incredible films – a number of which picked up awards at the festival – animated music videos, and new work by Max Hattler, Malcolm Sutherland and others.

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Darklight + IFI collaboration

Saturday 30 October, 2pm IFI

Darklight and the IFI are collaborating to present a special strand that draws attention to the work of experimental filmmaker Patrick Keiller. One of Britain’s most original and innovative directors we’ll screen his films London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997), and Robinson in Ruins (2010). Trained Architect turned filmmaker, Keiller draws on a wide range of influences and disciplines — architecture, history, art, philosophy, poetry — as he uses his fascination with the past to sharpen his portrait of the present.

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David O’Reilly Presents: MIXTAPE OF DOOM, A programme of Early Animation and Animated Rarities

Saturday 30 October, 2:30pm IFI

Welcome back to David O’ Reilly, Irish-born Berlin-based animator and winner of Darklight Audience Award 2008. A collection of logic bending neuro-masochistic short films from the past, present and future. Early animation, modern rarities, lost television shows and other slices of meat from the media’s most surreal and succulent tenderloins programmed by David. Also featuring a special preview of  his latest film The External World. DOR will be present at the screening.

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Synth Eastwood Presents: Separado!*(Rhys & Jones, documentary, 2010) includes Q&A sessions with Dylan Goch and Gruff Rhys.

Saturday 30 October, 7pm IFI

Join us for this psychedelic western musical in which director Dylan Goch follows Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals, Neon Neon) through the theatres, nightclubs and desert teahouses of Wales, Brazil and the Argentine Andes as he discovers what became of his long-lost Patagonian uncle. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Rhys and Goch.

*Oops spelling fail on the program. So sorry for spelling it Seperado! We know better now!

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Ogygia, Part One – A Work in Progress (Tony Kenny, 2010)

Saturday 30 October, 3:30pm Grand Social

Join Tony Kenny for the first three episodes of his magnum opus, ‘Ogygia’, a contemporary retelling of the heroic odyssey of Malachi St. Jesus Fogarty. Funded in part by the Arts Council, the complete film comprises 18 episodes each about 7 minutes long. There will be a discussion about the work following the screenings.

Entry is free and on a first-come-first-serve basis

European Commission in Ireland Finalists and Award Ceremony

Saturday 30 October, 6:30pm Grand Social

Join Darklight, the European Commission in Ireland and Cultivate as we screen finalists of this year’s Viral Video challenge ‘My Environment, My Film’ and announce the 1^st prize winner of the state of the art HD Digital camera.

Entry is free and on a first-come-first-serve basis

Art

Artist In Focus Gerard Byrne

Saturday 30 October, 11am IFI

This strand of Darklight features the work of exceptional Irish artists who sum up the spirit of independent cinema. In previous years we have been honoured to feature artists Vivienne Dick, Paddy Jolley and Willie Doherty. This year we are delighted to turn the beam of Darklight on Gerard Byrne. Join us as he talks us through a selection of his work.

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Exhibition: Dodo Presents: ‘Points of Departure’

Filmbase all weekend

The Dodo Collective was formed in 2009 to explore the tensions in new media art and technological obsolescence. What does it mean to make art that relies on digital formats that perhaps will be inaccessible in the future? ‘Points of Departure’ is the fourth Dodo Collective exhibition and is intended to bring together each members’ own perspective on new media art and, inadvertently, what might remain of these artworks in a decade from now.

Exhibition: Don’t Look Now

26 – 31 October, La Catedral Studios, 7/11 Augustine Street, Dublin 8

Ideas of fear and fate, foreboding, omens, signs and intuition are central to this collection of work in textiles, print, animation, photography and sound inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s short story and Nicholas Roeg’s 1973 film adaptation. Don’t Look Now opens 26 October and runs until 31 October 2010 from 1-5pm daily

Talks

Madam K talks on Video Activism

Saturday 30 October, 2pm Grand Social

“The politicians and bankers have been tearing the a**e out of it. It takes a local hero like Madam K to step up and show us what needs to be done.

“A big truck came and parked outside the Dail in an act of protest about toxic banks. Reporters were later to be seen spinning the story that it had tried to crash through the gates. Later still, politicians were defecating the same thing. We had enough. We produced a b**t plug. The politicians seemed to like it.” Madam K

Is it a good or a bad thing that our elected representatives don’t know a b**t plug when they see one? – Madam K will join other invited and angry video activists and filmmakers at Darklight to discuss the current and urgent need for a filmmaking practice of reaction.

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Workshop

Lance Weiler Masterclass presented by Fas Screen Training Ireland & Darklight

Saturday 30 October, 9:30am – 1pm Filmbase

Lance Weiler is the Chief Story Architect of Seize the Media. He’s also a critically acclaimed award winning writer / director. Recognized as a pioneer because of the way he makes and distributes his work – Wired magazine named him “One of twenty-five people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood” and Business Week recognized Lance as one of the “18 people who Changed Hollywood.” Lance has successfully self distributed his films THE LAST BROADCAST and HEAD TRAUMA to more than 20 countries while grossing over 5 million dollars in the process.

THE EVOLUTION OF STORYTELLING

Technology is impacting the art and craft of storytelling. As the industry shifts and audiences move from passive to active collaborators, how does the art of storytelling change? How does one develop stories and characters that can travel across screens and devices? What will emerge as new formats and how will they be funded and distributed? Lance Weiler, director of The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma, details the story architecture that he employs to build story worlds around his film, TV and gaming projects.

Interested participants should apply online at www.screentrainingireland.ie by the 15th of October 2010. Fee €25.

Spectrum Workshop and Broadcast

Saturday 30 October, 1pm Grand Social

Professor Linda Doyle, artists Sven Anderson and Rachel O’Dwyer (CTVR- TCD), Marie Redmond (TCD) and guest artist Shintaro Miyazaki (Humboldt University Berlin) present a workshop of Spectrum, focussing on ideas of invisible, electromagnetic and audio space.

Entry is free and on a first-come-first-serve basis

Free Your Film Workshop in association with Sony Ericsson

Saturday 30 October, 5pm Grand Social

Carmel Callen, David Freyne, Jessie Ward and Simon Maher & Anthony Fitzsimons present a show-and-tell of their finished short films that won this year’s movie making challenge Free Your Film, run in association with Sony Ericsson.

Entry is free and on a first-come-first-serve basis

Music

The Darklight Halloween Party / Closing Event with Very Special Guest DJs Gruff Rhys & Andy Votel

Saturday 30 October, 9pm Grand Social

Tickets €12 from tickets.ie / City Discs and Sound Cellar

Join Darklight for the festival closing party as the present a night of hair-raising revelry alongside Synth Eastwood and B Music. Expect epic live acts, DJs and shenanigans. Dress Code: Scary

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