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  • Darklight Festival: Call for Submissions

    darklightThe Darklight Festival, which will run from October 28-31, is now in its 12th year and if you’re into making movies, seeing new talent and having the opportunity to attend some fantastic talks and seminars, well this is the festival for you!

    Here’s the blurb:

    Darklight is Ireland’s premier festival celebrating independent, DIY and artist films. At this year’s festival, we’ll be looking at all aspects of grassroots filmmaking, whether that is crowd funding, production, distribution, alternative screening spaces – we want to hear from you…

    Submissions

    You can submit your work to us via email or by post. Make sure to include information about how the group came together, what kind of work interests you and who the members are. You can send youtube / vimeo links etc to info at darklight dot ie. Alternatively, you can post DVDs to Submissions, Darklight Festival, The Factory, 35a Barrow Street, Ringsend, Dublin 4  (more…)

  • Culture Cafe Podcast: Episode 2 6/10/2009

    culturecafe2Episode 2 of Culture Cafe featured interviews with author Michael Carroll, Fionn Kidney and Darklight Festival organiser Derek O’Connor.

    Rock band TKO came into studio.

    Full Tracklisting for the show can be found here

     

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  • Mark Romanek At Darklight, Dublin

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    I have to say I really enjoyed Mark Romanek’s chat yesterday in The Guinness Storehouse, as part of the Darklight Film Festival.

    The event was facilitated by Eoghan Kidney, who himself is a great video director.

    They looked at some of  Mr Romanek’s work, firstly, Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ which is a classic. The frailty of Cash and the story behind the video footage being edited in is amazing.

    The Johnny Cash museum was a couple of miles from Johnny Cash’s house where the video was recorded and had been closed for 15 years. The crew visited the museum and saw a library full of film footage of Mr Cash’s career, which were promptly sent to the editing suite.

    I love the Nine Inch Nails video ‘Closer’, Mark explained about the film stock that was used and the story of the little monkey seemingly tied to a crucifix. The little beggar was quite happy eating bananas while shooting was taking place. The grimmace on his face is on ethat all his breed have.

    Two people got their work critiqued by the master and a couple of things stood out. Mr Romanek was so honest. He didn’t tell anyone they were crap or their work was bad but he offered advice on how he thought the pieces could be improved to engage the viewer more, to show more narrative, get more warmth into a piece.

    It was an enjoyable day and a delight to hear someone in Mr Romanek’s position  be so honest.

    I also met  and old buddy of mine, James Cadden, of Voicebox Productions. We always seem to meet at these types of events. It was great to see James.

    The Guinnes Storehouse where the event was held is an amazing building.  Its interweaving escalators remind me of Charles de Gaule airport.

  • Culture Cafe: 06/10/09

    Mic (TKO), Nessy, Gram (TKO)
    Mic (TKO), Nessy, Gram (TKO)

    Episode Two.. Packed to the brim!

    Wow! That was a buzz!!

    I love technology, moreso when it works, when it doesn’t it just a few pieces of metal and plastic. But the show must go on! And so it did.

    Here’s what happened.

    Started off …
    Download of the week: Carosel: Easy as it flows.

    Chatted with Aisling about last weekend’s Music Show in the RDS

    (Music) Director: You Don’t Know

    Chatted with author Michael Carroll about his writing and involvement with Octocon, the Irish Science Fiction Convention

    (Music) Speech Debelle: The Key

    Chatted with photographer/artist Fionn Kidney about his Facebook group to make the light installation on Liberty Hall  a permanent feature.

    (Music) David Turpin: The Bone Dance

    Chatted to Band TKO and included a live track which incorporated The 4 of Us’ Mary

    Kev reviewed the best new albums

    (Music) Muse: The Uprising

    We did the draw for the David O Doherty tickets for tomorrow night.

    (Music) Outro.. DJ Flip Track 6 from his CD Crossroads.

    Really enjoyed it, hope it sounded as good to everyone listening.

    Irish Music Show tomorrow night.. Can’t wait!

    …nessy out!