The Nights start at 8.30, coffee, tea and cake will be served!
Dates: 8.30pm 8 & 15 July
Fish Bowl Gallery @ Exchange Dublin
Exchange Street Upper,
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
With thanks to Acción Cultural Española.
Dates: 6pm 14th, 21st & 28th July
Instituto Cervantes Dublin
Exhibition Room
Lincoln House, Lincoln Place
Dublin 2
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Born in Dublin in 1979, Irish photographer and filmmaker Niall O’Brien studied fine art photography in the renowned Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
He has exhibited at a number of Irish and English shows and has many awards to his name, including the Irish Professional Photographer’s Association Rex Roberts Medal and two main categories in the ICI Photographer of the Year Award. In October 2008 Niall was accepted into the top 20 portfolios in the International Portfolio Review, Bratislava. He continues to exhibit throughout Europe.
Opening: 6pm 7 July
Dates: 7-12 July
Opening hours:
12noon-7pm daily
Block T
1-6 Haymarket
Smithfield Square
Dublin 7
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Shows:
3pm 10 July
1pm and 4pm 13 July
Running time 46mins.
CityArts,
15 Bachelors Walk, Dublin 1.
Of the thousands of films made in Britain before the emergence of sound in 1929, only a fifth survive – most of them preserved in the BFI National Archive. But they were hugely popular in their time: Cecil Hepworth’s Rescued by Rover was so popular that the original negative wore out with printing and had to be re-shot – twice – while The Battle of The Somme, released in 1916 was watched by an estimated 20 million people.
Matthew Sweet visits the actual sites where the very first pioneer filmmakers made their mark, in Leeds, Trafalgar Square and Blackpool. He tracks down former studio premises, in Hove, Muswell Hill and Walton-on-Thames and traces some of the surviving cinemas from the period. Still visible as traces on the buildings of London’s film heartland in Soho is the legacy of a vibrant centre of the Cinema business known as Flicker Alley.
Britain too had its fair share of glamorous starlets, and luminous leading men who lit up the screens, and here Silent Britain introduces us to unobtainable matinee idol Ivor Novello, the bubbly and vivacious Betty Balfour and debonair movie marrieds, Henry Edwards and Chrissie White (to say nothing of the dog – Blair, the world’s first canine movie star).
The first documentary to celebrate the visionary filmmakers and the unsung stars of Britain’s own Cinema, Silent Britain is fully illustrated throughout with film clips of this extraordinary but vastly underrated period of film history from the first British sex comedy in 1898 to Britain’s first talkie in 1929 – Hitchcock’s Blackmail.
Matthew Sweet is a writer and broadcaster, and author of the acclaimed book on British Cinema, Shepperton Babylon. Contributors to the programme include screenwriter Michael Eaton, BFI archivist Bryony Dixon and film historians Frank Gray and Ian Christie.
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Possessing a remarkable eye for life’s eerie curiosities, Painleve’s art pivots on the premise that ‘science is fiction’. He created a landscape of bug-eyed wonderment marked by a playful sense of nature’s hidden poetry and scandalized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. In the process he won over the circle of Surrealists and avant-gardists and counted amongst his friends Antonin Artaud, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Vigo, and Luis Bunuel. Painlev’s astonishing documentaries witness a genuinely ‘magic realism’, which continues to enchant audiences around the world.
Presented as ‘Local Films for Local People’, the films include street scenes of Dublin, Wexford and Belfast, local dignitaries attending the Cork International Exhibition, scenic routes from Cork to Blarney Castle and much more. A unique and vivid record of Ireland at the start of the twentieth century.
The documentary, ‘The Endlessly Distant Roads’, was made by her friend Andrzej Rozycki, who is also a well known polish artist, film director and an art theoretician. Made with sensibility and artistic creativity, the film shows in the simple and pure form the enourmos output of Zofia Rydet. Her own commentary gives an additional value to this film. Awarded on the international film festivals in Lodz and Cracow.
Duration: About 30 minutes.
Directed by Andrzej Rozycki
Photography by Stefan Nitoslawski
36mm B&W film
Lodz 1990
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