Bloomsday Film Festival 2023 will feature XENOBLAST, an experimental short by Irish filmmakerArran Tenzin Bradstock made in collaboration with Maximilian Le Cain of Experimental Film Society and Close Watch Films.
Blissed is an experimental love story, both lyrical and graphic. Hovering in the sensuous haze where flesh and dream become one, it wordlessly explores the shared inner life of two people whose devotion to one another expresses itself in forms that still challenge convention. Sexually frank and poetically immersive, this plunge into one couple’s erotic utopia pushes the boundaries of what has previously been shown in Irish cinema in a way that is both sensitive and provocative.
XENOBLAST, a new experimental film by Arran Tenzin Bradstockworking in collaboration with Maximilian le Cain, has been Officially Selected for screening at IndieCork Film Festival 2022, the 10th anniversary edition of the festival.
A four week course in artists and experimental filmmaking taught by Maximilian Le Cain + Aoife Desmond
The Guesthouse Project Space, 10 Chapel Lane, Shandon, Cork. Mondays 7pm - 9pm, May 6th - 27th Materialist Film / Fictional Documentary / Performance / Expanded Cinema Price €120 ( early bird €100 before April 15th). Booking is essential as places are limited. Contact [email protected] to book.
Dates:
Monday, May 6, 2019 - 19:00 to Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - 20:55
Monday, May 13, 2019 - 19:00 to Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 20:55
Monday, May 20, 2019 - 19:00 to Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 20:55
Monday, May 27, 2019 - 19:00 to Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 20:55
In issue 7 of FILM PANIC Magazine we speak with six artists working across the vast landscape that is contemporary moving image. Their work ranges from experimental feature films for cinema, to multiscreen video works for gallery, to expanded cinema performances and to short films for both the small and big screen.
Experimental Film Society (EFS) is a group of filmmakers dedicated to the creation of uncompromisingly personal, formally challenging filmmaking. Based in Dublin, it operates as a company for the production, archiving and promotion of films by associated artists and filmmakers. Its founder/director is filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi. It has succeeded in forging a new and radically alternative Irish cinema. Its defiantly independent vision, both deeply informed by film history and utterly modern, has animated over five hundred shorts and features over its eighteen-year existence.
This issue of FILM PANIC Magazine focuses on the making of Rouzbeh Rashidi’s latest feature film Phantom Islands, which premiered in February 2018 at the Dublin International Film Festival.
Now Available to order here: https://tinyurl.com/y8rycelc Featuring articles on personal, exploratory and visionary approaches to contemporary filmmaking.
