Sweded TV shortlisted for New York International Children's Film Festival

We're delighted to announce that Sweded TV Series 2 has been shortlisted for the New York International Children's Film Festival, which promotes intelligent, passionate, provocative cinematic works for ages 3-18.  Of 2,500 submissions only approximately 300-400 get past the first round.

ALIBI - World Premiere at Cork Film Festival

In a small Irish town a girl is brutally murdered. When questioned by police, Paddy gives his workmate John a cover story. Twenty years later John is charged with murder and Paddy's lie is now an alibi.

Cork Film Festival Premiere Screening of 'Alibi', a new short documentary.

Directed & Produced by Darren Bolger/Caroline Campbell.

Produced by Still Films as part of the Irish Film Board's 'Reality Bites' series.

Date: Saturday, 07 November 2009

Time: 17:00

Location: Cork Opera House, Cork City

More info and tickets here:

http://www.corkfilmfest.org/2009/films/218/alibi

SEAVIEW DVD RELEASE

SEAVIEW is now available on DVD through our distributor Indiepix. The film which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year, and was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award, tells the story of asylum seekers living in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, an hour north of Dublin.

You can order copies on DVD or to download through the Indiepix site here.

RTE Young People's series re-commissioned

Still Films has been commissioned by Irish state broadcaster RTE to produce a second series of Young People's series Sweded TV, for broadcast in September 09.  The series of 10 short comic films is made with groups of teenagers following a nationwide call for entries.  Last year's series was selected to represent Ireland at INPUT, the prestigious conference for innovative public television from around the world.  Watch the last series at www.rte.ie/swededtv.

Pyjama Girls

We're delighted to announce that our next feature doc 'Pyjama Girls' has been given the green light and is going into production in collaboration with the Irish Film Board. The film observes the lives of a group of teenage girls living in Dublin's inner city, who spend all their time in their pyjamas. Check our Feature Films section for more info and images.

SEAVIEW at Thessaloniki

We're very pleased to announce that Seaview will be playing next week at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

Click here for info:

Screenings are as follows:

PAVLOS ZANNAS:

Friday, March 13, 2009 - 13:00

OLYMPION:

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 13:00

Istvan Laszlo "Untitled (Revolution 89)" at Wilkinson Gallery London

Istvan Laszlo's new animation Untitled (Revolution 89) will be showing at the Wilkinson Gallery in London as part of a group show of Romanian artists from the Plan B art space in Cluj. 

www.wilkinsongallery.com

Untitled (Revolution 89) 

The video work is based on an anonymous photograph that was taken in December 1989 during the Romanian revolution against the Communist regime in Bucharest.  By reconstructing this historical image well stocked in our collective consciousness, the filmmaker is analyzing the way that a fabricated image can reconfigure our relationship to historical truth. 

Directed by Istvan Laszlo

Produced by Nicky Gogan

Track Changes at Wilkinson Gallery

28 February - 9 April 2009

Project Space

Wilkinson is pleased to announce a project space exhibition by Romanian artist-run space 'Plan B'. The exhibition brings together recent works by the three members of the group SUPERNOVA, active in Cluj between 2001-2004. SUPERNOVA's presence on the Romanian art scene contributed to a significant shift in tone and artistic attitude, away from the melancholy look of the post-Wall generation, repeatedly defining the East as non-West, as absence or lack, and the West as surplus, and puzzling over this in-built incompatibility. Alongside other new voices, Ciprian Muresan, Cristi Pogacean, and Istvan Laszlo engage the recent past of Eastern Europe as an occasion to extricate the very notion of history from ideological falsification, to bind it up with personal experience, conceptual accident and the history of art. In their collective and individual projects, history appears as a network of conflicting timelines, while the ways in which globalization and post-communism endlessly complicate each other are observed from a perspective immune to the utopias of revolution or liberalism.

Ciprian Muresan's video 'Choose...', part of a significant body of work dealing with the father-son relationship, sees Vlad Muresan mixing Pepsi and Coca-Cola in a glass. The child's prank rings, in the context of Muresan's practice, pre-apocalyptic: a glimpse of the moment when carefully marketed differences merge in the same viscous paste, a rehearsal for the collapse of identities. Another work by Muresan is situated in a dreamlike interval between wars, as an extended recollection of the previous one and a monotonous preparation for the next. For one excruciating hour, soldiers peel potatoes, silently yet stubbornly interrogating geopolitical strategies, ideological unrest and the clashes of civilizations.

Istvan Laszlo and Cristi Pogacean engage history the way monuments do, proceeding by extreme, effective simplification. Pogacean's 'Modernist Bird House', collapsing Mies van der Rohe and St. Francis of Assisi and pairing the Modernist effort to regulate life with its systematic irrationality, or Laszlo's manipulation of a propaganda image, showing the political leader drowsing off into irrelevance - these works isolate and modify bits of history in what feels like a simulator for alternative flows of time.

In Pogacean's 'Caranime', Caravaggio's 'Doubting Thomas' becomes a lesson of anatomy, as the repeated gesture of incredulity and physical testing disrupts the event, introducing a deferral in the revelation of Truth and its acceptance. In another work, Istvan reflects on the fact that 'the first revolution broadcast live on television' did not lead to a 'film', to a director's cut, but to a profusion of making-of features and DVD bonuses, divested of denouement or resolution.

Plan B is an artist-run space set up in Cluj, Romania in 2005 which focuses on Romanian art of the past 50 years. In 2007 Plan B organized the Romanian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale with Victor Man as curator and Cristi Pogacean among the artists exhibited, and have recently set up a second space in Berlin, Germany.

Wilkinson

50-58 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ

SEAVIEW - GERMAN CINEMA TOUR

Seaview is starting it's German cinema release this week at the FSK Kino in Berlin. The film is now being distributed by the Arsenal in Germany. Directors Nicky and Paul will be at the screening on the 7th, and then at all dates on the tour starting February 16th. Just click on the back of the postcard above for the tour dates. If you have friends in Germany who might be interested in the film please do pass the information along. Thanks!

SEAVIEW nominated for an IFTA

After its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and a very successful tour of the festival circuit, ‘Seaview’ has now been nominated in the Best Documentary category of this year's IFTAs (Irish Film and Television Awards).

more here

Seaview German cinema tour. February 2009.

"Seaview' is now being distributed in Germany by the Arsenal. 

The film opens at the FSK-Kino in Berlin on January 29th and will then tour Germany in late February. The directors will be on hand to intro the film on the tour. 

More info here (in German)

Full tour dates to follow.

Film Ireland

The January/February issue of Film Ireland magazine, guest edited by Still Films directors Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley with Darklight programme director Derek O'Connor is now available for sale in shops and from Film Base in Temple Bar.

You can find extracts from the articles here