Beginning on Friday, 6th September, aemi (Artists' and Experimental Moving Image) will bring their micro-festival 'Dissolutions' to The Complex. Over the course of a single weekend aemi will screen rediscovered works of the 1940s with Mary Ellen Bute's 'Tarantella' to the Irish premiere of 'The Buriti Flower' by directors Joao Salaviza andd Renée Nader Messora. The programme is packed with over 30 films showcasing the diversity of practices within the fields of artist cinema and experimental film.
Aemi's special guest for the festival is celebrated filmmaker Laida Lertxundi. 'Dissolutions' will screen a programme of Laida’s films titled ‘the answer is a lemon’ on the Saturday of the festival and Laida will also lead a practical 16mm workshop for filmmakers.
FRIDAY 6th September events:
Forum/Film | Temple Bar Gallery and Studios | 11:30 am - 1 pm
An open forum for filmmakers/artists working with, or interested in working with, the medium of film. This special gathering will comprise short presentations from celluloid filmmakers Vivienne Dick, Helena Gouveia Monteiro and others about the resources currently in place for small gauge filmmakers in Ireland and proposals of how these could be strengthened and enhanced through collective effort.
LANDSCAPE PLUS: Practical 16mm film workshop with special guest Laida Lertxundi. | Temple Bar Gallery and Studios 2 - 6 pm.
Laida Lertxundi is a Spanish artist, filmmaker, and professor of fine arts. Her films have been screened at numerous festivals such as Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, BFI, TIFF Toronto, Gijón, San Sebastián and Edinburgh International Film Festival among others.
This practical workshop will provide a limited number of participants with the unique chance of gaining insight into Laida’s creative process as well as hands-on experience of shooting on and recording sound for 16mm film.
'The Buriti Flower' | The Complex | 6:30 pm.
Moving over to The Complex, join aemi for the festival's opening night screening of 'The Buriti Flower'. Opened at 6:15 pm by journalist and activist Una Mulally.
Shot over 15 months in several villages in the Krahô territory, Central Brazil, ‘The Buriti Flower’ is the result of years of working with and alongside the indigenous communities that feature in the film. Winner of the Ensemble Prize at Cannes in 2023 where it showed as part of Un Certain Regard, the film is an example of eco-cinema at its most urgent and empathic.
The Krahô are the indigenous people of Northern Brazil. In The Buriti Flower, directors Salaviza and Nader Messora present four tales, cinematic representations of the Krahô’s oral histories, detailing tragic events from this people’s history.
Salaviza and Nader Messora immersed themselves in the lives of the Krahô, and captured, in the Krahô’s own unique, non-linear way, the tales of the injustices handed down through the years. From massacres against the Krahôs by settlers, the military dictatorship in the 1960s, to Bolsanaro’s disregard of their rights.
If you're a cinephile, filmmaker or just looking to do something a bit different in Dublin, aemi's 'Dissolutions' promises to be a very special event.
Tickets are available for individual days (Friday & Saturday 15 euro) or the full weekender (25 euro) here.
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