Darklight Film Festival has selected 12 short films, video art and animations, featuring exclusive and hard to find works, for Darklight Compendium Volume 1 - a platform for emerging, established and experimental filmmakers?.
The first commercially available, Irish produced compilation DVD of its kind features 12 short films, video art and animations from Ireland and around the world. Selected from the Darklight Festival - Compendium Vol. 1 brings together works that we hope will both inspire and entertain you. The selection varies from the sublime to the hilarious - abstract animation to live action short films by emerging and established, award-winning film-makers.
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The Darklight Festival is Ireland's premier festival for filmmakers, animators and artists who use contemporary filmmaking techniques. Since its inception in 1999, Darklight has brought new and exciting work to Irish and international audiences through cinema, exhibition, touring, networks and performance.
The Darklight programme focuses on work that challenges; concepts, visual aesthetic, narrative, access, methods of production and dialogue, work that pushes boundaries, displays creative excellence and creates new possibilities for the imagination.
When curating the compendium, we wondered how could we represent the essence of Darklight? How can we illustrate the diversity of the programme? So in Vol. 1 we decided to include works largely from Darklight alumni, directors and artists who have contributed regularly to the festival programme over the years, we have included some new works and some favorites from past festivals.
New to the Darklight catalogue are celebrated artists AL and AL, whose work investigates the mysterious heart of technology. We also welcome Ruth Meehan with her award winning film ?And the Red Man Went Green'.
During Darklight Festival 2006 we featuried work from the Electronic Arts Intermix catalogue. To accompany this we included an excerpt from ?Sketches' by Steina and Woody Vasulka, 1970. The Vasulkas are pioneers of electronic image processing and ?Sketches' illustrates some of the earliest experimentations with video manipulation.
This compendium of work spans across many disciplines, some pieces even redefine those boundaries; Delicious 9, Crab Salad, Desperate Optimists, Dog Media, David Phillips and Paul Rowley, Richard Fenwick, Glenn Marshall, Ruth Meehan, Robert Seidel, Tim Redfern, Al and Al and the Vasulkas. Each piece on this compendium has contributed to defining this era of filmmaking, seminal works from around the world, selected for your viewing pleasure.
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