Moving Image Cork

We are back folks!  After a few months of working on the 1 minute film project, of which there are still two more yet to be filmed, we are back with public meetings in An Spaílpín Fánach with guest speaker Mike Hannon.

Mike will be familiar to many of you as the man behind “My Beamish Boy” and “Rat’s Island”, two award winning short films.  Mike is an independent film maker and video artist whose work ranges from the experimental to the conventional, spanning a number of genres.  He holds BAs in Fine Art and Applied Psychology. His pieces have been exhibited, performed or broadcast in a variety of contexts: visual art exhibitions in Ireland, Great Britain and China; experimental video for new music in New York, New Orleans, Minneapolis and Copenhagen, and documentary film at various festivals and on TV.

Mike will be illustrating his talk with some of his work.

The One Minute Short film project is bearing fruit with three interesting plots though we have relaxed the rule about the films being only one minute as the plots are worthy of slightly longer development. Continue reading →

For the time being we have decided to leave the Spaílpín Fánach to conserve funds. From the meeting this Thursday November 3rd we will be meeting in Rochestown Rise, Rochestown.

Members have been advised by email. Please email us through the Contact page if you wish to attend a forthcoming meeting and details will be sent on to you.

The Spailpin Fanach is not available on October 6th so we have postponed the meeting for one week.  So, “Pitching 1 minute film ideas” will now take place on 13th followed by “Writing the Script” on the 20th.

This Sunday’s Arts Show on Cork FM Community Radio is featuring an interview with Moira O’Brien and Martin Vallely and is all about Moving Image Cork.  Tune in to 100.5FM today, Sunday 25th September, to listen at 7pm.

UPDATE

The show can be heard on the Cork FM Podcast page

We have now updated the programme up to the end of December and it is an exciting change from last season’s programme.  As we are in the business of making films, we thought it would be a good idea to follow the process of film making from start to finish over a series of club nights culminating with shooting the selected film(s), editing and then showing them on the last meeting before Christmas.

We will be bringing in speakers relevant to each stage of the development process to workshop the chosen films.

The process starts this week with the showing of a number of short films and a general discussion on the making of each film.  The following meeting will be devoted to members pitching their ideas for a one minute (or so) film.  The best of these ideas will be voted upon and carried forward through the whole process of making in the following meetings.

Full details of the meetings are in the programme of events page.  We look forward to seeing you all.

Apologies for the late notification for last Thursday’s meeting which was clearly reflected in the poor attendance. We will meet every fortnight this year and look forward to seeing all our members at the next meeting on September  22.

Despite the poor attendance we discussed upcoming activities including Continue reading →

Moving Image Cork is starting off its new season with its first meeting tonight at the Spailpin Fanach at 8pm.

Join us and share your summer exploits in the world of film and video, plus your opportunity to contribute to the shape of our future meetings.
Remember, our meetings are now every two weeks (it used to be twice a month) so mark up your calendars accordingly.

Lastly, the new subscription rate is €50 for the year payable in full or €30 in September and €25 in January.

We look forward to seeing you all.

I get occasional promotional emails from Kessler Crane, who make some high quality and expensive equipment which is usually far outside my budget.  Sometimes, however, they come up with some interesting products which are worthy of interest even at my low budget level. Continue reading →