A Day at the End of 25 Years is a diary film of the filmmaker's 25th birthday shot on expired-in-1984 Soviet Sveta film stock. The imperfections in the emulsion and its uneven response to the processing chemicals are utilized like the blotches of absence that affects our memory: simultaneously hampering our ability to remember entire moments and uniting disparate points in time.
Ailín Ó Dálaigh is a contemporay experimental filmmaker and photographer born in Dallas, TX, currently located in Victoria, BC, who has lived and worked in Canada since 2017. He holds an A.A. in Liberal Arts (focus on Audio Engineering) from Collin College, a B.A. (2019), and an M.A. (2021) in Slavic Studies from the University of Victoria, having researched and written on early Soviet cinema. The aesthetics of Soviet film during the 1920s and 1930s informs the style of his photography and filmmaking, with his work being nearly all film-based.
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