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Chronicle of a Summer
Sat 27 Aug @ 8pm - €8/€6.50 conc.
Paris. The summer of 1960. While war rages in Algeria and pre-independence Congo seethes with violence, ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin send two women out into the streets of the city to interview passersby. From a simple starting question - Are you happy? - Chronicle of a Summer delves deeper and deeper into the lives of its characters.
Directed by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin in 1961, this seminal film was selected for Mermaid by Jennifer Brady, whose exhibition A Knowable Whole runs in Mermaid gallery during the month of August.
DELVE DEEPER INTO CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER
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| See Carmel Winters SNAP for FREE |
 SNAP
Mon 29 Aug @ 8pm - €8/€6.50 conc.
Single mother of one Sharon has invited a documentary crew into her house to 'set the record straight'. It's obvious from the off that she doesn't want them to be there but the caustic Sharon knows that it's a necessary evil. At first it's not clear what she has to clear up, but soon it's revealed. Half mockumentary and half straight drama Snap builds to a powerful but twisty climax that encourages one to rethink what they've just witnessed.
DON'T MISS CARMEL WINTERS DEBUT FILM
Buy a ticket for Carmel Winters play B for Baby and see Snap on Mon 29 Aug for FREE. |
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A Sell Out at The Dublin Film Festival
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 Congo an Irish Affair
Mon 5 Sept @ 8pm - €8/€6.50 conc.
A sell-out at Dublin Film Festival earlier this year, this is a penetrating and poignant study of the Irish-led 1961 UN peacekeeping mission to Katanga, a province that wanted to break-away from the newly independent Congo.
Talking to survivors and making wonderful use of both archival footage and reconstruction, Congo - An Irish Affair pieces together the story of people asked to achieve an impossible goal. It is a searing indictment of the UN and of European attitudes to Africa but equally shows the hopelessness of the situation as armed factions with mutually exclusive desires slip ever closer to war. Dir: Brendan Culleton & Irina Maldea, 2011
Get behind the film with a Post-screening Q&A with the Director
BOOK NOW TO SEE CONGO - AN IRISH AFFAIR
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