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Darklight Festival
Irelands premier festival
Celebrating independent DIY animation, VFX and artist film..
Big thanks to everyone who entered our VJ competition. A big congrats to our winner Paul Power, ENFP visuals – you can check out his work via his site http://about.me/enfpvisuals and his showreel here: ENFPvisuals – Showcase 2011 from ENFPvisuals on Vimeo. Hope to see you at Gut Vibrations this Friday 22 June @ the [...]
Read more →Darklight Festival are working with our friends MoFoHoBo to find Ireland’s next great club visual’s whizz. Dubstep music promoters Mofo Hobo are celebrating their second birthday on Friday 22 June in the Twisted Pepper & launching their brand new clubnight ‘GUT VIBRATIONS’ at ‘MUD’. Darklight & MoFoHoBo are holding a competition for VJs for the [...]
Read more →At Darklight 2011: Strictly Roots, we offered the winner of the coveted ‘Spirit of Darklight‘ title the opportunity to launch a crowd-funding campaign with the full support of the Darklight team and Fund:it. The winner of the award, Laberinto Verde, directed by Abel Kavanagh and Amaru Durand Mitre is a documentary about the coca leaf [...]
Read more →Spirit of Darklight Abel Kavanagh & Amaru Durand Mitre - Laberinto Verde A gift from the Pacha Mama, the coca leaf has sparked more debate at this time of important geopolitical shifts in South America. We set out to look at this plant from a new perspective, hoping to decry the established link between the sacred [...]
Read more →Announcing this years winner of the Darklight / European Commission in Ireland online filmmaking competition . . . Big congrats to Dan Dalton, whose film 2020 and Beyond wowed the judges with its originality, humour and imaginative view of Europe in 2020. Watch the winning film here. We’ll be uploading the finalists over the next [...]
Read more →We really excited about our programme of travel guide films that Vice have curated for us from their body of work. Through-out the festival, in the Salon we’ll be screening THE VICE GUIDE TO CONGO & THE REBELS OF LIBYA, THE VICE GUIDE TO BELFAST. So grab a coffee from the Roasted Brown Coffee stand, [...]
Read more →SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER 14:00 Laberinto Verde, Screening Room 1 with short film Blue Passage (Luca Rocchini) A gift from the Pacha Mama, the coca leaf has sparked more debate at this time of important geopolitical shifts in South America. We set out to look at this plant from a new perspective, hoping to decry the [...]
Read more →SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER 12:00 Where The Sea Used To Be, Screening Room 1 with short film Whoever Whatever (Daniel McKernan) Two brothers meet up for the obligatory Christmas Eve pint and find themselves spending that day together. They don’t discuss the big issues. The mysteries of the universe are not uncovered. No great wounds are healed nor [...]
Read more →FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 16:00 Opus K, Screening Room 1 with short film Still Early (Ger Leonard) A freelance journalist is hired by a psychiatrist to investigate the death of a former patient. But as the case progresses, he fears he is being groomed to replace the dead man. Or worse: join him.
Read more →FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 14.00 Living in Emergency, Screening Room 1 with short film Devolution/Reckoning (Gavin Heffernan) “Living in Emergency,” Mark Hopkins’ docu about humanitarian health organization Doctors Without Borders, concerns itself less with the NGO’s salutary effect on communities than with the tremendous toll on the borderless MDs, who must address constant suffering with inadequate facilities. [...]
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MOVIE POSTER COMPETITION: Calling all young artists 18 years old and under!
Death of A Superhero Special Screening & Workshop
Darklight 2012: Award Winners
