6.11.12
We, The Masses at the IFI
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17.7.12
Learning to Fish Receives Special Mention at Galway Film Fleadh
Excited to announce that Teemu Auersalo's Learning to Fish produced by our very own Nicky Gogan received Special Mention at the Galway Film Fleadh 2012! Congratulations!
5.12.11
Build Something Modern picked in Top 5 Irish Films list
9.11.11
BUILD SOMETHING MODERN in NYC
3.10.11
IRISH FILM NYC
this weekend in Manhattan at the Irish Film NY festival!
16.9.11
PYJAMA GIRLS IN NEW YORK
Film Center, 36 E 8th street, NYC.
www.irishfilmnyc.com for details.
22.8.11
WE, THE MASSSES trailer
Directed by Eoghan Kidney based on artwork by Robyn O'Neil
Watch this space for screenings info.
This is a Framworks film http://tiny.cc/tozh1
6.7.11
STILL FILMS SHORTS AT GALWAY FILM FLEADH
Still Films have a number of shorts playing at this year's Galway Film Fleadh. Make sure to catch them!
We, The Masses
World premier of Frameworks Short,
New Irish Shorts: Programme 7, Town Hall, Saturday, 9/7/11 2:30PM
One man falls to earth to find hatred, mystery and his demise. We the Masses is a tale of warning and transcendence.
We, The Masses, is Directed by Eoghan Kidney and based on artwork by Robyn O'Neil animated by Mark Flood and Ciaran Crowley, with sound design by Fiadhnait McCann and music by Adem Ilhan, it's not to be missed!
Information on all films in New Irish Shorts, Programme 7 available here: http://tiny.cc/dkwn1
Tickets available online http://tiny.cc/afotn
Making Michael
A short documentary, Directed by Caroline Campbell, Produced by Nicky Gogan
New Irish Shorts: Programme 8 (Documentaries) Town Hall Sunday, 10/7/11 9:00AM
Making Michael follows the process of remaking the Michael Jackson waxwork shortly after Jackson's death. The construction of fame and the battle against impermanence become themes as the model-maker considers how to capture the essence of a man who underwent so much transformation.
Information on all films in New Irish Shorts, Programme 8 (Documentaries) available here: http://tiny.cc/2wj6s. Tickets available online http://tiny.cc/s0rce
Rats Island
A short documentary, Directed by Mike Hannon, Produced by Sinéad Ni Bhroin
New Irish Shorts: Programme 8 (Documentaries) Town Hall Sunday, 10/7/11 9:00AM
Rats Island is sparse and measured. It offers an observational account of how, in the face of personal and economical adversity, a father has made a home for himself and his son.
Information on all films in New Irish Shorts, Programme 8 (Documentaries) available here: http://tiny.cc/2wj6s. Tickets available online http://tiny.cc/s0rce
BUILD SOMETHING MODERN AT TRISKEL CORK - 10 July - 12 July
We are really delighted that our latest feature documentary is showing in Cork at the Triskel Arts Center from Sunday 10 July - Tuesday 12 July
"Directors Gogan and Rowley unearth a strange cross-cultural architectural mash-up between Ireland and Africa". Irish Times ****
"Build Something Modern finds Irish fingerprints in unlikely places. Slyly, the film-makers set up a complex tangle of post-colonial ironies using small, evocative images". Irish Times ****
"The documentary utilizes an extraordinary fusion of visually rich images... skillfully blended together to provide a rich, illuminating and coherent narrative" Film Ireland
Build Something Modern tells the story of a lost canon of Irish architecture. The film reveals the surprising and untold history about the adventurous architects who began their career in Africa and went on to become some of Ireland's most significant architectural figureheads. Between the 1950s and 1970s, young architects travelled to Africa for creative freedom during an era of relative cultural conservatism at home, while others designed buildings from Ireland that they themselves would never see in their completed form in Africa. The film travels back to the 1950s, to a still largely colonial Africa where the Irish missionary movement was at its height, and traces the story of the buildings through the devastating impact of wars that destroyed many of the structures right through to the present day.
Reworking stunning imagery from both the personal archives of the architects and recruitment films made by the missionary orders, the film encompasses Still Films unique visual and storytelling style. Build Something Modernis a touching and revealing film about the special relationship between architects and the structures they create. Accompanied by an evocative soundtrack which establishes connections between memory and construction, the film is as much a study of the effect time has on the mind as on physical structures. Build Something Modern is a meaningful portrait both of the lives of spaces as well as those of the people that create them.
Build Something Modern is a Reel Art film funded by the Arts Council. The film is directed by Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley (Seaview, The Rooms) and produced by Maya Derrington (Pyjama Girls) with Original Concept & Research by Dr. Lisa Godson
Build something Modern was premiered at JDIFF last February where Still Films were awarded the Dublin Critic's Choice Discovery Award for new talent. You can purchase tickets online at: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/126517027/events
6.6.11
STILL FILMS AT SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST
27.5.11
BUILD SOMETHING MODERN AT THE IFI
20.5.11
PYJAMA GIRLS IN KILDARE
18.5.11
STILL FILMS at SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST
29.4.11
Where Were You! hits the target
21.3.11
27.2.11
Dublin Critic's Circle
14.2.11
SURFACE NOISE at the Berlin Film Festival
9.2.11
Build Something Modern premier at JDIFF
Film Festival, Friday 25 February 2011
Still Films are delighted to announce that their latest feature
documentary film will be premiered at the Jameson Dublin
International Film Festival, Friday 25 February in IFI Screen 1 at
6.30pm. Tickets are on sale now via the JDIFF website https://
jdiff.ticketsolve.com/shows/126512479/events
Build Something Modern is a Reel Art film funded by the Arts Council/
An Chomhairle EalaĂŒon. The film is directed by Nicky Gogan and Paul
Rowley (Seaview, the Rooms) and produced by Maya Derrington (Pyjama
Girls).
Build Something Modern tells the story of a hidden canon of Irish
architecture - groundbreaking young architects who pushed the
boundaries of Irish design, With surprisingly little recognition at
home. Between the 1950's and 1970's adventurous architects, eager to
be among the first Irish modernists, travelled to Africa for
excitement and creative freedom. At the same time other Irish
architects, fresh out of university, were given the opportunity to
design modern buildings in Africa, but remarkably never got to see
the finished constructions.
These structures - churches, seminaries, hospitals and schools - were
for the most part built as part of a massive community effort. They
were co-ordinated by the Catholic missionaries, often without a
contractor and with the architect mostly absent. Build Something
Modern reveals a surprising and untold history about these people and
their innovative creations. We travel back to the 1950s, when
colonies were still in place, through the atrocities of numerous wars
where many of the structures were destroyed, right up to present day
Nigeria.
Reworking stunning imagery from both the personal archives of the
architects and recruitment films made by the missions, the film
encompasses Still Films unique visual and storytelling style. Build
Something Modern is a touching and revealing film about people and
the special relationship with the things they create as they reflect
on it many years later.
Featuring Dr. Sean Rothery, B.Arch., Ph.D., FRIAI, Dr. Richard Hurley
FRIAI, ARCUK, HRHA, Allen Smith B. Arch, Gerald Fey B.Arch RIBA RSUA
and Michael O'Doherty Dip. Arch FRIAI, Fr. Kevin Longworth SPS, Fr.
Jim Sharkey SPS, Fr. Gerald Gogan CPPs. Original Concept & Research
by Dr. Lisa Godson.
Directors and producer bios available at http://www.stillfilms.org/
pages/about.html Full press kit and images available on request.
12.1.11
PYJAMA GIRLS nominated for an IFTA
Irish Film and Television Award this year. The film is nominated in
the George Morrison Feature Documentary Award. Awards take place
February 12th in Dublin. www.ifta.ie for more info on all the
nominees. Congrats to all.
8.12.10
This Weekend! showcase Capital Irish Film Festival
10.11.10
PYJAMA GIRLS in Tipperary
13.9.10
Pyjama Girls BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Pyjama Girls BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Sell-out Irish documentary Pyjama Girls plays at big screens from September 17th nation-wide as part of an innovative DIY distribution campaign. Pyjama Girls, a new Irish documentary by Maya Derrington, examines the lives of two of Dublin's 'pyjama girls', will screen at some of the country's most prominent cinemas.
Booking info: Vue Liffey Valley Dublin:
http://www.myvue.ie/cinemas/index.asp?ci=60
The Gate in Cork: http://bit.ly/cNgRwh
The Eye Galway: http://www.eyecinema.ie/
Cineworld Dublin from the 24th September: http://www.cineworld.ie/
Nationwide with Access Cinema From October, details on Access dates and venues will be posted here: http://www.accesscinema.ie/
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9.8.10
STILL FILMS at the IFI
21.5.10
STILL FILMS LAUNCHES 3RD RTE YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERIES
Swede Me is Still Films' 3rd series for RTE Young People's and we are inviting teenagers to apply to make and star in their own short films. Apply by 2nd June 2010 at www.rte.ie/tv/twotube/swedeme.html. Swede Me is a series of bite-size comedies presenting the idiosyncracies of today’s teen labels, in the style of popular TV formats. Each episode focuses on one teen group, for example Emos, GAA Heads, Skater Kids, Metallers, Scout, Gamers, or Facebook addicts. The episodes will be created this summer during workshops and shoots with the Swede Me team.
26.3.10
PYJAMA GIRLS WORLD PREMIERE
17.2.10
STILL FILMS AT THE DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Anne Maree Barry and Matthew Talbot -Kelly will both be doing a Q&A about their projects at DATA 40 on the 26th of February.
Screening times:
Alibi
Directed by Darren Bolger and Caroline Campbell
Screening Saturday 20 February 6.30pm IFI
(The Trembling Veil of) Bones
Directed by Mathew Talbot-Kelly, co-produced with Glimpse Digital
Screening Wed 23 Feb, 8.30pm Screen Cinema.
Check out the trailer here! http://vimeo.com/9498702
Rialto Twirlers
Directed by AnneMaree Barry
Screening Sunday 28 February 4.30pm, Light House Cinema
Still Film's old friend and collaborator Jim Davis will be in town for the premier of his film Meeting Room, screening 21 Feb at 3.30pm, Cineworld, Parnell Street, D1.
Trailer: http://www.vimeo.com/9438174
Tickets are on sale now via www.jdiff.com - more details on the films at www.stillfilms.org
19.11.09
Sweded TV shortlisted for New York International Children's Film Festival
30.10.09
ALIBI - World Premiere at Cork Film Festival
18.8.09
SEAVIEW DVD RELEASE
You can order copies on DVD or to download through the Indiepix site here.
21.6.09
RTE Young People's series re-commissioned
9.5.09
Pyjama Girls
5.3.09
SEAVIEW at Thessaloniki
23.2.09
Istvan Laszlo "Untitled (Revolution 89)" at Wilkinson Gallery London
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.
23.1.09
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!
8.1.09
SEAVIEW nominated for an IFTA
more here
6.1.09
Seaview German cinema tour. February 2009.
5.1.09
Film Ireland
17.11.08
SEAVIEW at the Foyle Film Festival
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