Moving Image Cork

Thank you so much to all our super talented film makers who were screened at the festival, and to all the audiences who passed through, and especially those who stayed for the entire night. I will write a full report after I take a nap, but for now massive congratulations to our diyCORK award winning film ‘Ger O’Halloran’s True Stories’ directed by Rob O’Halloran of Insomniac Productions. I’d say we can call the Moving Image Cork Mini Film Festival a runaway success. Million thanks to Bertrand, Danny and all at Camden Palace, especially to Seamus Hegarty for rolling film so well. Thanks Elaine, Moira, Martin and Masha for your help organising the proceedings. See you all in The Garden of Imagination, Sat 7-11 or Sun 4-7 at Very Healthy Food, 72 Douglas Street, for more diyCORK Festival of Culture.

We are delighted to welcome Dott. Laura Rascaroli, senior lecturer in film studies at UCC to the meeting on Thursday May 3rd.

Laura will illustrate some trends in contemporary international non-fiction cinema, focussing on reflective documentary, first-person cinema and the essay film. With a particular focus on independent film- and video-making, she will discuss why these non-fictional forms are particularly relevant today and analyse some specific examples.

Extract from UCC Website:

Dott. Laura Rascaroli D in L (Milan) Laurea in Lettere Moderne is senior lecturer in film studies, co-Chair of the Board of Film Studies and co-director of the MA in Film Studies.

She has delivered keynote and invited lectures at institutions in Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain and Canada. Her work has appeared in edited collections and in journals including Screen, Framework, Studies in French Cinema, Film Criticism and Italian Studies. She is the author of The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and The Essay Film (Wallflower, 2009) and the co-author, with Ewa Mazierska, of three monographs on contemporary European cinema. Most recently, she has co-edited, with Patrick O’Donovan, The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations (Peter Lang, 2010) and, with John David Rhodes, Antonioni: Centenary Essays  (British Film Institute/Palgrave, 2011).

She is a co-founder and currently general editor of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media.

She was Government of Ireland Research Fellow in 2002-03, and has been Principal Investigator on the IRCHSS-funded RDI research project Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970, a collaboration with Drs Barry Monahan and Gwenda Young (UCC) and the Irish Film Institute, Dublin. Currently, she is PI on two IRCHSS New Ideas projects: “Michelangelo Antonioni Centenary Workshop“; and “New Cinemas, Changing Audiences”.

As a project in association with Moving Image Cork, Yvonne Coughlan will be making a short film on Sat 28^th April, as part of diyCORK Festival of Culture https://www.facebook.com/#!/DIYCork  for Mutant Space http://www.mutantspace.com/ Trash Culture Revue in our regular film competition Mutant Shorts https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/119337458195365/ this year’s theme is Lego. The film’s working title is ‘Le’ me go’. The concept is being born right now, in your thoughts, as you wonder what that title means. RSVP wants to hear from you. Whatever your level of skill or interest as a film maker, if you would like to join Red Sandstone Varied Productions http://www.rsvpireland.webs.com/ and Blue Shed Productions http://www.blueshedproductions.com/ in this exciting full day collaboration then email rsvpireland@gmail.com

As part of the first ever diyCORK Festival of Culture, https://www.facebook.com/#!/DIYCork which runs 14^th-20^th May. Moving Image Cork will be running a one night film festival of short films. We will shortly be inviting your submissions for the mini film festival. Look out for further updates. All films of up to but not over 10mins running time are eligible for entry. The cost of film submission is €5 per film. We will show three films of longer duration, but submission cost will be €10, and you will need to provide a synopsis and cover letter detailing why your film should be considered. So start making those films, or get to that final edit. Deadline for submission will be May 7th.

Michael Robert Murphy is a Fulbright Scholar-in-residence at UCC this semester. A director and actor, his work moves between film, theatre and recently, opera.  Much of his work combines the performative and the mediated, and recently, explores the relationship between  film reality, live presence, and memory.  Beginning with a 2009 production of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, which he will perform again at UCC March 14-16, then to a film based on the play (be again, 2010), his explorations continue as he develops a new work, “Sleepwalker”, to be shown March 23rd at Theatre Development Centre@Triskel.  exploring the “fold” where past and present meet.

The meetings start at 8pm upstairs at An Spaílpín Fánach on the first Thursday of each month.

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 →