Posts Tagged Darklight 2009
DX Podcasts, Volume Two: Has Pop Eaten Itself?
Posted by admin in Latestnews on December 9th, 2009
Another imminently listen-able DX podcast for your delectation…
As pop culture and high culture merge, never before has pop been more examined, consumed and analyzed. But where to now? Does Pop still matter? And can Pop survive in hard times? Chaired by journalist and club promoter Una Mullally, the panel for this discussion includes promoter and filmmaker Dylan Haskins, blogger Rapture Ponies, DJ Alison Curtis and musician James O’Neill.
Listen To Has Pop Eaten Itself? HERE
NB: Once again, this podcast was created by the amazing Jessie Ward. Cheers!
Darklight X, The Podcasts, Volume One: 2019 After Copyright With Anna Troberg And Jim Carroll
Posted by admin in Latestnews on December 8th, 2009
Welcome to the first of our Darklight X podcasts, bringing you audio highlights from the 2009 Darklight Festival…
First up, enjoy our Darklight X Keynote Discussion between Anna Troberg (pictured), Vice Chairperson of the Swedish Pirate Party and Irish Times journalist and blogger Jim Carroll.
Listen to 2019 – After Copyright HERE
And stay tuned for further Darklight X podcasts in the coming weeks…
NB: This podcast was created by the amazing Jessie Ward. Cheers!
And The Darklight Award Winners 2009 Are…
Posted by admin in Latestnews on November 3rd, 2009
Best Short Film – Live Action
24/7 by Emer Maguire tied with
43 by Craig Woods and John Curran
Best Short Film – Animation
Donkey by Louise Bagnall
Audience Award
Video Games by Musclebeaver
Spirit of Darklight Award
We Invented Hallow’een by Michael Fortune
Darklight Award winners are selected by a Darklight jury, except the Audience Award which is voted for by Darklight audience members. Congratulations to all!
Hotel Darklight Is Coming…
Posted by admin in Latestnews on October 8th, 2009
Savage @ Darklight 2009
Posted by admin in Latestnews on October 4th, 2009
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.
More on Savage HERE.
Exposure @ Darklight 2009
Posted by admin in Latestnews on October 1st, 2009
from happy
To hell with categorization: Exposure is all about bringing you a wondrous smorgasbord of the finest new short cinema from across the globe, with a particular focus on work from Irish talent – work that by turns inspires, illuminates, infuriates and defies definition.
More on Exposure 2009 HERE.
Watch the trailer for ‘43 (yonju-san), screening as part of Exposure ‘09:
Hotel Darklight @ Darklight 2009
Posted by admin in Latestnews on October 1st, 2009
Join us for the World Premiere of Darklight’s latest DIY Movie extravaganza. The culmination of days of frenetic activity – a new Irish feature film is born!
In Dublin there is a mysterious hotel that to the casual observer might seem no more special or different than any other. Yet there is something quite strange about this place that makes it different to any hotel you’ve ever stayed in. Think of it as Dublin’s own hotspot for the paranormal or fantastical: Ireland’s own very own Twilight Zone, where the magical, the impossible and the terrifying all co-exist… Welcome to Hotel Darklight!
The event will be preceded by the presentation of the 2009 Darklight Awards, celebrating achievement in short film, as voted for by the viewing public over the weekend.
More about Hotel Darklight HERE.
Watch last year’s DIY movie extravaganza, Dublin: The Movie, HERE.
Cool Fresh Milk @ Darklight 2009
Posted by admin in Latestnews on September 28th, 2009
We’re delighted to welcome The Performance Corporation to Darklight 2009. Cool Fresh Milk explores a new strand of theatrical possibilities for The Performance Corporation, with a mix of live electronic music and performance. Directed by Jo Mangan, Cool Fresh Milk is performed by Lisa Lambe, with live music by Jo Thomas and live text by Tom Swift. We dig the trailer:
More on Cool Fresh Milk HERE.
Darklight 2009: Niall Sweeney’s Revolver
Posted by admin in Latestnews on September 17th, 2009
Our unmissable Saturday Night Centrepiece.
A thisispopbaby presentation.
Embarking from a Dublin of a near-distant memory — with its burgeoning cultures of clubbing, digital media, and DIY — graphic artist and visionary Niall Sweeney takes you loop-the-loop round a world viewed through glasses tinted with his particular bent. Condensing two decades into a two hour performance, Sweeney presents an evening of story cycles and graphic travelogues in words, pictures and music. From suspending giant babies, basking sharks, drag queens and himself over a variety of dancefloors, scandalising the front pages of the papers, and honing the blades of cutting-edge queer culture to celebrating inner-city communities as different kinds of animal, making tiny staircases in and out of books, attending dinner parties with spacemen, and time-travelling with pop artists… Expect stories of incident in confabulations of the high- and low-brow past/present/future, some transgression, Sean-nós and a few grams of synesthesia. Sweeney will be joined on the night by some heroines and muses… and there’s the chance of a little puppetry.
Niall Sweeney is half of the collaborative graphic studio Pony, based in London and working all over the place. More info on Pony HERE.
Book tickets for Revolver HERE. And hurry.
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