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This years Darkight Festival will take place 20 – 22 October in The Factory, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 4.
The Factory is on DART line (stop Grand Canal Dock), bus routes 2, 3, 56a, 74, 74a & 77a. If getting the Luas (Red Line), Mayor Square NCI is the closest stop.
Map below.
Arcs, Folds is a series of fractured, repeating and overlapping scenes with shades of murder mystery, soap opera and drama. Played out over 3 screens, a dozen performers engage in a series of disclosures and denials of a layered and frantic plot. Based on the idea of ante-narrative, that is, narrative as multi-vocal and chaotic, Arcs, Folds was formed through a dozen actors sustained improvisation over the course of a one day shoot in a Georgian house on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland. Shot on 3 cameras simultaneously, many scenes contain shifting viewpoints and a layering of sound and image that offers a rich collage of events. Centering around the sale of a 7 bedroom house Arcs, Folds is also a peculiar document of the contemporary Irish economic situation. Filmed at the start of the demise of the Irish property market and the first obvious sign of the financial difficulties Ireland is now embroiled in.
Arcs, Folds is designed as an installation that runs continuously. Depending on what point the viewer begins to engage with the work and the amount of time they spend with it, the more the content reveals itself. As the cycles of each video loops, the synchronicity of the work changes resulting in an ever evolving dynamic between each screen. Devised and directed by Anita Delaney, Arcs, Folds was produced with an Arts Council New Project Award. For more information see: www.anitadelaney.net
TOG http://tog.ie will be creating a unique 2 day hardware hacking area at the upcoming darklight festival. They will be showcasing their wide range of projects created by TOG’s hackerspace members. LED displays , gas powered music visualizer (Rubens Tube), e-clothing and pin hole photography. Over the weekend drop by and learn how to capture images with our homemade pin hole cameras. Be amazed at the printing of 3D objects with our Makerbot. Be flashy by making one of our LED badges. Be thrilled by the heat of our infamous Ruben’s tube. Check out the Video and projects http://tog.ie/projects
Film Screening: Hollywood Babylon Presents…. EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE!, Friday 21 October, 10pm Studio 5
Hollywood Babylon is Dublin’s Midnight Movie Film Club. Running Saturdays fortnightly April to October 2011 and devoted to ‘disreputable’ movies. Roughly speaking- movies best seen after midnight, in company and with beer.
Everything Is Terrible is a collective of seven furry, lovable internet monsters who live in a cave full of VCRS and take forgotten VHS tapes to edit them down into easily digestible viral videos. www.everythingisterrible.com
BYOB
EIT: THE UNTOLD STORY from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo.
Film Screening: Resurrect Dead, Saturday, 22 October 18:00, Screening Room 1
With short film Internet Story (Adam Butcher)
Strangeness is afoot. Most people don’t notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.
Resurrect Dead Trailer from Resurrect Dead on Vimeo.
Film Screening: We Are Poets, Saturday 22 October 20:00, Screening Room 1
With short film Solstice (Hussain Currimbhoy)
We Are Poets presents a timely and surprising story that confronts our understanding of youth, as six remarkable teenage poets from Leeds Young Authors take up the challenge of representing the UK at Brave New Voices – the most prestigious poetry slam competition in the world. From their inner city lives to a stage in front of the White House in Washington DC, the poets must prepare for a transformational journey of a lifetime.
Cinematic, imaginative and uniquely honest, We Are Poets is a moving testament to the power of creativity, community and the dynamism of young people. Anyone tempted to dismiss today’s youth as politically apathetic better pay heed: here is electrifying evidence to the contrary.
We are delighted to announce this special screening plus performance by two of the poets Rheima Robinson and Kadish Morris.
Film Screening: Blood In The Mobile, Friday 21 October 18:00, Screening Room 1, The Factory
Film Screening: Bellflower, Friday 21 October 20:00, Screening Room 1, The Factory
Bellflower
An agonizingly intense, almost unbearably beautiful first feature from the writer-director Evan Glodell. He also stars as Woodrow, a self-described dude from Wisconsin transplanted to a grungy corner of Los Angeles, who, with his high-strung roommate and lifelong friend, Aiden (Tyler Dawson), tries to fulfill “Mad Max”-based, comic-book-fuelled apocalyptic visions by means of shotguns, souped-up cars, and homemade incendiary devices. But when Woodrow meets and falls in love with the devil-may-care Milly (Jessie Wiseman), who knows she’s trouble, he’s sucked into his own inner apocalypse from which his whizbang gadgets offer no escape. Glodell and his cast bring the story to life with a shambling charm, impulsive energy, and hair-trigger violence; his images are as fiery and bruising as the action he depicts, and the meticulously wrought, raw rock-and-roll fury of his visions, joining cosmic conflagration to post-adolescent romantic bathos and banal self-destruction, is realized on a budget that would be Hollywood lunch money. Framing everyday intimacies on a terrifyingly grand scale, Glodell blasts open a new dimension in the cinematic imagination. (The New Yorker)
With Writer / Director / “Woodrow” Evan Glodell in attendance
Evan Glodell
Originally from Wisconsin, Evan moved to California in his early 20s with a group of close friends to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker. He and his brother started the Brothers Glodell which would grow to have a huge Internet cult following for their quirky and humorous short videos, some including Bellflower cast members Jessie Wiseman and Vincent Grashaw. Picking up other Coatwolf members along the way, including Tyler Dawson and Joel Hodge, Evan began working for Internet start-up STIM TV where he conceptualized and starred in the edgy sitcom BOSS OF THE GLORY. Evan has directed many music videos, most notably Cursive’s “Let Me Up.” Working as a cinematographer, Evan shot the feature-length horror movie PLACEBO and the short film SAVANNA, which screened at the Beverly Hills Film Festival and won an Accolade Competition, ‘Excellence in Film’ award.
Bellflower, an intensely personal story incorporating many real life events, is Evan Glodell’s feature-length directorial debut. Production began in early 2008 shortly after completing the innovative ‘Coatwolf Model II’ Ultra Large Format optical system made exclusively for the film. Bellflower became Evan’s true labor of love, causing him to sacrifice almost everything, including selling off all of his personal belongings and living in an abandoned wing of an office building to fund the movie.
Evan is a prolific writer and has already developed a series of feature-length movies to follow Bellflower: TALES FROM THE APOCALYPSE.
Film Screening: Sound It Out, Thursday 22 October 20:00, Screening Room 1, The Factory
Sound It Out
Sound It Out is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England. A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, Sound It Out documents a place that is thriving against the odds and the local community that keeps it alive. Directed by Jeanie Finlay who grew up three miles from the shop. A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives. High Fidelity with a Northern Accent.
“Hilarious and incredibly heartwarming” NME
“SOUND IT OUT isn’t just good – it’s important” IFC
“One of the most vital and innervating films of SXSW” Cinematical
“The unexpected pure pleasure of this year’s indie documentaries at SXSW” James Rocchi MSN Movies
“A winning combination of High Fidelity and American Splendor” The Guardian
SxSW, Silverdocs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011.
The official film of Record Store Day 2011
With Director Jeanie Finlay in attendance
Jeanie Finlay
Jeanie Finlay is a British artist and filmmaker who makes documentaries for the cinema, broadcast and gallery spaces. She is obsessed with music and this passion runs through all her work. Her latest film is SOUND IT OUT (premiere SXSW 2011), a feature doc about the very last surviving record shop in Teesside; a distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives. Previous work includes GOTH CRUISE for IFC (75 mins), the most downloaded title ever on IFC), the critically acclaimed Teenland for BBC4 (60 min) and the award-winning interactive documentary Home-Maker.
In 2008 Jeanie set up Glimmer Films and is currently in co-production on two new feature documentaries with Met Film; THE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX for BBC Scotland and BBC Storyville and ORION: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING. Jeanie was named one of the “New Faces of Film” by The Guardian 2011 and a “Star of Tomorrow” by Screen International.
This year’s Darklight Festival will take place Thursday 20 – Saturday 22 October in The Factory, 35A Barrow St. Grand Canal Dock.
The Darklight Festival Launch Thursday 20 October at 7pm
Celebrate the opening of the 13th annual Darklight Film Festival … enjoy a free beer or two from independent local breweries with music from Michael ‘Le Cool’ McDermott who will entertain us with a YouTube DJ set. Followed by a screening of the opening film Sound It Out (Jeanie Finlay, 2011)
This year’s festival theme is Strictly Roots and we’ll be celebrating the spirit of grassroots filmmaking; how friends and communities come together, and against the crazy backdrop of global financial meltdown still manage to make moving, hilarious, challenging and kick-ass films.
Through our programme strands at this year’s festival; New Indie Voices, Spotlight on Docs, SFX Unplugged, 3-D.I.Y. and Artist in Focus, we’ll be featuring all aspects of grassroots filmmaking including; crowd funding, distribution, homemade digital and special FX. And it’s all taking place in our new HQ, The Factory, Grand Canal Dock.
For tasters of films and more check out our Tumbler page – http://darklightfilmfestival.tumblr.com/
RSVP events at darklight dot ie to attend the launch event
Love is all we bring.
Nicky, Sinead and Sarah.
Team Darklight.
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