A touring screening series from Irish Film London, bringing two of Ireland’s best artist’s feature documentaries to audiences all over the UK.
After a sold-out screening of Vivienne Dick’s New York Our Time at the Irish Film Festival London 2021, and rave reviews for Tadhg O’Sullivan’s To The Moon, IFL set out to find opportunities to present both films to audiences across the country. Working with these great texts together presents an opportunity to focus on the work of Irish artist-filmmakers and highlight the output of Irish moving image artists, while connecting with our community across the country.
This tour will see the films reach cinema and community audiences in cities across England. With talent-led screenings which will feature the film’s directors in person at many venues, these events present a special opportunity to catch brilliant but underappreciated films from 2021 in cinemas across the country this year.
This tour is generously supported by Culture Ireland
New York Our Time (2020, director Vivienne Dick) 79 minutes
Best Documentary, Dublin Film Critics Award, Dublin International Film Festival 2020
Best Documentary, Irish Film Festival London 2021
An intimate and philosophic film that contrasts the concerns of present day living in New York with the bohemian wildness of the city in the late 70's, reflected through the lives of artists, musicians and friends of the filmmaker. https://www.stillfilms.org/portfolio/new-york-our-time/
Filmmaker Vivienne Dick’s new film is an intimate and philosophic documentary that contrasts the concerns of present day living in New York with the bohemian wildness of the city in the late 70’s, reflected through the lives of artists, musicians and friends of the filmmaker. To a pulsing soundtrack, the film combines never before seen Super 8 footage from the 70s while the filmmaker was living in the East Village, with intimate conversations with old friends filmed during the hot summer of 2019 in New York. Stories of the past recall a run down, bankrupt, often dangerous city, where rent was cheap and artistic creativity flourished. While in the NYC of today, glittering mirrored towers reflect a city radically consumed by mass gentrification, tourism, and high end luxury gift shops for the one percent.
Beautifully filmed by renowned cinematographer Declan Quinn, and edited by Connie Farrell, the film is an ethnographic look from the inside at a particular community and period in the history of a great city, and a meditation on the passing of time. Interviews include photographer Nan Goldin, performer Lydia Lunch, post-punk feminists Bush Tetras, and a new generation, the children of that 70s era of free expression, now finding their own way through a city increasingly in thrall to market forces over that which makes us human.
A Jellyfish/Still Films production. Director: Vivienne Dick. Producers: Nicky Gogan. Paul Rowley. Associate Producer: Karla Healion. Original Music and Sound Design: Martin Wheeler. Director of Photography: Declan Quinn Editor: Connie Farrell.
Music by Bush Tetras, Mars, Konk, The Contortions, Ray Santiago, Lizzie Mercier Descloux, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and Felice Rosser.
An Arts Council / Comhairle Ealaion funded REEL ART project operated in association with the Dublin International Film Festival
To The Moon (2021, director Tadhg O’Sullivan) 80 minutes
Best Irish Film Dublin Film Critics Award, Dublin International Film Festival 2021
FOCAL International Award nominee, 2021
"a poetic exploration of humanity's ongoing lunar obsession..."
Crafted entirely from archive images, Tadhg O’Sullivan’s To The Moon is an exquisite and meditative cinematic journey exploring our relationship with the moon, as depicted on film through the ages.
A cinematic ode to the moon, woven from archive, poetry and song - a constantly surprising night-walk through the moonlit imagination. Structured as a lunar cycle, this cinematic ode move through tales of love, songs of longing, myths of madness, dreams of innocence and the nightmare of colonialism, building to a timely reminder of our fragility beneath the moon's mysterious eye. https://tothemoon.ie/
THERE ARE MULTIPLE SCREENINGS TAKING PLACE ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS PART OF THIS TOUR.
CHECK THE LISTINGS BELOW TO FIND A SCREENING NEAR YOU
Venues include:
Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
FACT, Liverpool
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
Confirmed screenings are listed below.
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