WHAT’S LEFT US THEN

A film by: Yvonne mc Guinness

2023 / Ireland / Art, Architecture

A thought provoking, often funny reflection on the development of modern Ireland through the lens of rural concrete structures, their ruin, repair and intrinsic maleness mediated by a female narrator.

World Premiere

Pálás cinema Sunday 08 October, 12pm

Commissioned as part of the Engaging with Architecture programme funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. 

DOP: Michael Kelly 

Editor: John Murphy

Sound Design: Guillaume Beauron

Grade and finishing: Michael Higgins

Yvonne Mc Guinness is an Irish artist based in Dublin. Her research interests explore art as a social and relational practice and the critical and contextual debates that evolve from this area of study. With an emphasis on collaboration and ethnographic approaches she is particularly interested in our sense of belonging, embodied experience of place and the spectator as active participant. Mc Guinness’ work involves a variety of media: film, performance, collage, sculptural and textile elements, sound and writing.

Film Shorts

Premiere of short 3 min films produced during the past week from participants at the AATE/ CAFx film + architecture workshop, 2023

Time: 16:30pm – 18:00pm / 45min screening + 45min Q&A

Date: Saturday 07 October, 2023

Location: Screen 3 - Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Road Lower, Galway H91 F6DF 

FREE but prebook is advised as places are limited.

Architecture at the Edge and Copenhagen Architecture Festival partnered up to organize a film & architecture workshop in response to the AATE23 thematic provocation of ‘re-mapping’, focusing on filmmaking and environmentally conscious, socially inclusive design, architecture and urban planning. This is the result!

A series of 3min film shorts made in and about Galway City.

About

During the one-week program, through lectures, group exercises and guided explorations of Galway, we invited participants to response to the AATE23 thematic provocation of ‘re-mapping’. Participants were introduced to practices of investigative observation, archival research, and new ways of mapping the city - interrogating issues of land ownership, material extraction, environmental, ecological and physical qualities of the landscape but as well considering the human interactions, the convivial strategies of resistance created by citizens, and apply this knowledge to create your own short film documenting or addressing design solutions found in the built, grown and/or planned environment of Galway city.

Supported by Screen Ireland

Note: Spots are limited, once the eventbrite fills up we encourage those interested to join a waitlist by emailing info@architectureattheedge.com. If you sign up and can no longer make it, please let us know so we can give the spot to someone else

Groundwork: A Short Film

Date:  Saturday 07th October

Time:  4pm - 4:30pm

Location: Screen 3 - Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Road Lower, Galway H91 F6DF

FREE but prebook is advised as places are limited  

Note: Spots are limited, once the eventbrite fills up we encourage those interested to join a waitlist by emailing info@architectureattheedge.com. If you sign up and can no longer make it, please let us know so we can give the spot to someone else.

Summary

A collage of drawing, field recording, image, score and word, GROUNDWORK: A Short Film presents a drawn journey along an imagined section line cut through the town and hinterland of Ballinasloe.

About

A collaborative work led by architectural graduate Dominic Daly and filmmaker Josh Meany, GROUNDWORK: A Short Film presents a drawn journey along an imagined section line cut through the town and hinterland of Ballinasloe, County Galway. The film presents a collage of drawing, field recording, image, score and word, reflecting on fieldwork gathered by Daly for his dispersed exhibition in the town as part of AATE’s 2022 edition. A study of identity, place and material culture, in the context of a wider reconsidering of the place and potential of towns in contemporary Ireland. Entirely of this community, the film features the voice, crafts, texture and people of Ballinasloe. Architectural tools become a means to reimagine local identities, through understanding the nuanced personality of what is already there.

Dominic Daly explores materiality, process and identity through drawing, design and photography. Currently working for TAKA Architects, he was awarded a masters in architecture from UCD in 2022 receiving the Bruce Shortt Award and RIBA President’s Medal nomination. Dominic’s solo works have featured in publications including: Making Belfield (UCD Press); Foreign Exchange (Story, Building), Architecture Ireland (RIAI Journal). He has previously worked for African Futures Institute (La Biennale 2023); LAN Paris; Architecture at the Edge.

Big Ears Listen With Feet

Bêka & Lemoine

Date:  Tuesday 03rd October   

TIme: 7pm. Duration, 93 min

Location: The Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Road Lower, Galway

FREE but prebook is essential

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About

Artist-filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine take us to Bangkok on a one day hectic journey through the chaotic concrete jungle of the South-Asian megacity. Led by the moving personal story of Boonserm Premthada, one of today's most important Thai architects, the film unfolds through a free wander, punctuated by stunning encounters, events and places, which have contributed to shape Premthada's unique identity and sensibility. Deaf from birth, the architect evokes how his disability led him to develop an alternative way of listening using his whole body as a resonance chamber of sound vibrations. Despite their large ears, elephants also perceive sound mostly through their feet. Learning from elephants, Boonserm has developed an architecture of the senses where sound vibrations become the voice of space. Walking through the dark streets of the slum where he grew up, flying to remote rural communities living in symbiosis with elephants, and observing old ladies’ devotion towards the buddhist monks of their village, the film reveals, through impressive sequences, the architect’s active commitment to work with people for whom architecture can have a strong social impact. When a road movie merges with a film diary, here comes the one of a kind style of Bêka & Lemoine’s performative cinema.

http://www.bekalemoine.com

CREDITS

Directors; Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ila Bêka EDITING: Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

COLORIST: Melo Prino

SOUND MIX: Walter Amati, Fuji Studio

PRODUCTION: Bêka & Partners, France

Thailand, 2022, 4K, Color, 93 min