Bloomsday Film Festival 2023 will feature XENOBLAST, an experimental short by Irish filmmaker Arran Tenzin Bradstock made in collaboration with Maximilian Le Cain of Experimental Film Society and Close Watch Films.
Arran is a filmmaker and musician from Cork, Ireland, studying for a PhD in Music at UCC. He has had work screened at other festivals such as Fastnet Film Festival, Kerry Film Festival, and Luminous Void Experimental Film Festival. Most recently his shorts XENOBLAST and Dice Roll was screened at IndieCork Film Festival 2022 and art(ist)FILM 2022, respectively. This is the 2nd time Arran's work has been presented at Bloomsday, with the 2022 festival featuring his film Overlap.
XENOBLAST will screen as part of the festival’s ‘Experimental Shorts 2’ programme on Wednesday, 14th June at 8.30pm in the James Joyce Centre, Dublin. It will then be available to view online for a limited time on the Bloosmday Film Festival website. For the full programme and to book tickets, visit httpsbloomsdayfestival.ie/filmfestival.
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XENOBLAST (2021, 6 minutes): 'Spaces converge and collapse in this audiovisual exploration of location and perceptual experience, presented through sounds and images recorded by experimental filmmakers Arran Tenzin Bradstock and Maximilian Le Cain.'
