Darklight Festival at Galway Arts Festival 2007

Espectros Urbanos/Urban Phantoms (02:34)
 By Donna Conlon
 PA
 IP

Donna Conlon uses ordinary objects and images to reveal the
idiosyncrasies of human nature and the contradictions integral to our
contemporary lifestyle.
She has used damaged trees encountered in the woods and garbage from the
streets to question human behaviour, especially the conflicts we have
within our urban and natural environments.

 Train Train Médina (07:00)
 By Mohamadou Ndoye Douts
 SN/FR
 IP

One day, to build a house, one begins to steal sand, the sand on the
beach. In the Medina , it all becomes a muddle. Communication between
people and places, it is all part of the chaos. One day everything
collapses. Living together with no respect for the earth brings a time
of misfortune, which buries and erases everything, leaving no trace.

 Who I am and What I Want (07:30)
 By David Shrigley and Chris Shepherd
 Uk
 IP

This film is about who *I *am and what *I *want. It's *NOT *about who
*YOU *are and what *YOU *want. You always think everything I make is
about you but it's not. It's all about me...

 Ich Bin Ein Manipulator/The Manipulators (3:00)
 By Claire E. Rojas and Andrew Jeffrey Wright
 USA

"Ich Bin Ein Manipulator" uses sharpie markers and white-out
correctional fluid to manipulate the images that are used to manipulate
the masses. Advertising and fashion magazine images are covered and
altered to create a retaliation of absurd humour. The animators, Clare
Rojas and Andrew Jeffrey Wright, seek to help us laugh and disregard the
more hurtful aspects of the media. Enjoy.

 The Very Thought of You (02:45)
 By Karl Hunter
 IRL

The artist is filmed each day holding up the front page of the daily
newspaper.
He sings the song "The Very Thought of You" and as the song progresses,
the lyrics of the song replace the words of the newspaper headlines.
The film utilises the pop song's sentimental take on romantic obsession
in combination with an idea of the heroic cult of adversity.

 The Ibero-American Trilogy - Bolivia 3: Confederation Next (15:00)

By Martín Sastre
 UY

This futuristic trilogy by Uruguayan artist Martín Sastre shows us our
own future as a flashback, beginning with the fall of Hollywood and
extending to the creation of a new order.
"BOLIVIA 3: Confederation Next" takes us to the year 2876, and Tom
Cruise is ready to tell us the History of the War for Fiction Control
that started hundreds of years ago in Europe with a sword fight between
Uruguayan/Sub-American artist, Martín Sastre and U.S./American Artist,
Matthew Barney.

 Habitat (08:30)
 By Lars Arrhenius and Johannes Müntzing
SE
 IP

In "Habitat" we follow nine people and a dog in a three-storey apartment
building. An urban story, where the drama of the building mixes the
ordinary and the absurd with humour and seriousness.

 879 B&W (00:48)
 879 Colour (01:23)
 By J. Tobias Anderson

"879" is based upon 879 drawn still images from Alfred Hitchcock's
classic "North by Northwest", redone into a transparent black and white
version. The images that were chosen from the Swedish translation of the
movie were replaced in chronological order, one frame per illustration,
and through this a completely new expression and a new work is created.

 And In the End (06:33)
By John O'Connell
UK

Shot on sixteen millimetres the film opens onto a timeless arena.
Uninhabited, this space evolves through the language of landscape.
Weather systems are performed, strange acts occur and sounds trace
unknown activities. As the form of the film evolves the severity of the
weather increases and in its attempt for salvation the land struggles to
reform through a series of tectonic acts.


Pictures available on our site under touring programme-animation art
wandering