Teen + / 105 min (plus Q&A/Intro)

Each of these exciting Irish and International short films plays with narrative structures. This is a unique mix of spoken word, music, dance or even silent films that experiment with new and fresh narrative progression. Each film stands alone, so expect the unexpected.

ARTHUR KING – CHANGING LANDSCAPES

Director: Brian Canning, Sam Johnson / Producer: Sam Johnson, Lisa Klipsic

Los Angeles based art collective Arthur King travels to rural Iowa to gather audio and visual samples from a small family farm in order to reuse them creatively in a large-scale, improvisational visual art and music performance within the same setting.

Walls of Limerick

Director: Arturo Bandinelli / Producer: Kat and Dawg Productions

Walls of Limerick is a vertical dance film that explores the psychological effects that harsh political borders have on people.

PLACES

Director & Producer: Claudia Barral Magaz / Producer: Andrés Pulido Santamaría

In Places we explore the limits of time and it’s course. It captures the trip to different instants, always from the same place, expanding the possibilities of the ellipsis and giving birth to an artistic universe that evokes memories using always the same spatial coordinates.

Happy Easter

Director & Producer: Boris Utkin

A schoolboy tells a story of how a bunch of youngsters robbed a grocery store near the nightclub.

The Dream Report

Director & Producer: Jack O’Shea

A deadpan sci-fi interweaving moments of familiar routine with esoteric messages from deep space.

X Anniversary

Director & Producer: Yvette Farmer

Four monologues performed by the same actor exploring themes of grief, regret, LGBTQ and our wants and desires.

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity

Director & Producer: Deirdre Mulrooney

We imagine and pay tribute to misunderstood artist Lucia Joyce at ‘full capacity’, referencing Berenice Abbott’s iconic 1928 large format photograph of Lucia in her self-designed silver fish costume, and a little-known link with WB Yeats’s Abbey Theatre Ballets.

The Garden

Director & Producer: Patrick Müller

Strange blossoms, sunken pathways, déjà vus: A hike through H.P. Lovecraft’s most personal garden.

Billy Willy

Director & Producer: Michael Barwise & Sean Mullan

Exploring residue, trauma and memory through the eyes of two best friends and their shared identities. Billy and Willy guide us through their world of Jazz.

Was That A Yes?

Director: Ray Mac Donnacha / Producer: Kevin Ó Flatharta

Date-night disaster, sometimes you wish you could start the perfect evening all over again.

Tuna

Director: Cliona Noonan / Producer: IADT Dun Laoghaire

A late-night supermarket cashier with a strange obsession is visited by a mysterious customer.