9 November 2020 / 18:00 / Online Event
Screening online November 9th - 12th 2020
‘Death in Geological Time’ is screening at Docs Ireland as part of ‘Material Legacies’ curated by AEMI.
The programme explores ideas around family, lineage, inheritance, legacy, death and afterlife. The screening opens with two films by Irish artist Grace Weir, Dust Defying Gravity (2004) and A Reflection on Light (2015), both of which convey the fluid momentum of a relentlessly inquisitive subjective position in constant shift between past and present. From there we move into Renèe Helèna Browne’s Daddy’s Boy (2020), a recent commission for Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival which offers a highly personal reflection on the body, gender and family legacy refracted and entangled with considerations of the legacy of the T-Rex. Coleen Fitzgibbon’s Trip to Carolee (1973) follows with a kind of Super8 diary film documenting a road trip to feed the artist and experimental filmmaker Carolee Schneemann’s cat Kitsch. Kelly Gallagher’s film Pearl Pistols (2014) is a shiny stop-motion resurrection incorporating archival recordings of the American civil rights revolutionary Queen Mother Moore. Amanda Rice’s Death in Geological Time (2018) is a document of transformation, exploring the messy materials of life and death crystallised into new forms and the programme concludes with Alice Rekab’s Migration Sings (2020) which utilises a single image and recitation to examine a very personal experience of race, place, and belonging.
Material legacies
Grace Weir, Dust Defying Gravity, 2004, 4 minutes
Grace Weir, A Reflection on Light, 2015, 21 mins
Renèe Helèna Browne, Daddy’s Boy, 2020, 22 mins
Coleen Fitzgibbon, Trip to Carolee, 1974, 5 mins
Kelly Gallagher, Pearl Pistols, 2014, 3 minutes
Amanda Rice, Death in Geological Time, 2018, 4 minutes
Alice Rekab, Migration Sings, 2020, 2 minutes
Image: Grace Weir, Dust Defying Gravity, 2004