Ag Lorg Hy-Brasil

Red Pepper Productions

2024 | Ireland | 85' | Feature Documentary Film

Film

Date: Sunday 22 September
Time: 8pm
Doors Open: Venue & Bar will open 60 mins before showtime. 
Location Town Hall Theatre

Ag Lorg Hy-Brasil ruminates on an ancient, mythical island off the Connemara coast and explores how it inspired Ireland’s national pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.
The exhibition, In Search of Hy-Brasil, was curated by a team of five architects, Peter Carroll, Peter Cody, Elizabeth Hatz, Mary Laheen and Joseph Mackey. The project examines the relationship between the islands of Ireland and their natural environment and puts our islands’ diverse communities, culture, and experiences right at the centre of the discourse surrounding our shared future.

Architecture at the Edge are delighted to present an exclusive screening as part of a supporting programme of cultural events organised around the content of the installation. This special event includes a sneak peek at the eagerly awaited film documenting the making of ‘In search of Hy_Brasil’, with the cast and creative team in attendance. 

The special screening will take place on Sunday 22nd September, starting at 8:00pm, in the Town Hall Theatre. 

Director: Martin Danneels. 
Writer: Geoff Power. 
Producer: Laura Cranley

Post Show discussion will follow

Principal Funders: The Arts Council & TG4

Building societies: architecture in Irish artists’ film 

Selected by Gavin Murphy

Film Screening

Date: Tuesday 01 Oct, 2024

Time: 6pm – 8:30pm

Location: Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Rd Lower, Galway

Building societies presents the film work of four Irish artists Anne Maree Barry, Fiona Hallinan, Eva George Richardson McCrea, and Dennis McNulty. The films engage with architecture as subject through a variety of formal and narrative approaches, yet all concern the lived experience of buildings, and explore the forces that drive the development of our built environment, be they colonial powers, progressive modernism, the church, or speculative capitalism. 

Dennis McNulty's Carbon Dating juxtaposes the margin drawings from American urban planner and author Kevin Lynch's What Time is This Place with an interview with an academic who used to work at the University of East Anglia, a Brutalist campus in Norwich, UK.  

Anne Maree Barry's Otium cum Dignitate ~ Leisure with Dignity combines psychogeographic walking tours of the 'Monto' area in Dublin to create a film that establishes a dialogue between locality, history, and architecture, to present a complex portrait of female empowerment.

In Eva George Richardson McCrea's Rope, three men sit around a table in the decaying corpse of a building as they engage in small talk about holidays and hobbies, have a conversation about Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Rope, and discuss various aspects of property development.

Fiona Hallinan's Making Dust is a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin. Informed by Ultimology, a practice of looking closely at endings, it invites its audience to think about the life cycles of buildings and materials, what we value, and issues of sustainability in architecture.

Building societies was originally screened at Composite, Melbourne to coincide with exhibition The necessity of ruins (Films 2012—2023) by artist Gavin Murphy, with the support of The Arts Council and Culture Ireland, and presented in collaboration with aemi and Pallas Projects.

Screening Program: 

Dennis McNulty, Carbon Dating (2011), 05:35

Anne Maree Barry, Otium cum Dignitate ~ Leisure with Dignity (2017), 23:29 

Eva Richardson McCrea, Rope (2022), 14:26

Fiona Hallinan, Making Dust (2023), 45:00

The programme will be followed by a discussion with artist filmmakers, Anne Maree Barry, Fiona Hallinan and architectural historian Ellen Rowley.

Event curated by Gavin Murphy, co-director of Pallas Projects/Studios.

Screening as part of the Architecture at the Edge Festival 2024.

Galway’s Public Archipelago (Islands)

Film Shorts

Date: Saturday, 5 October 2024
Time: 4pm – 6pm
Location: Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Rd Lower, Galway

Tickets: FREE

Interested in how architecture and film shape our sense of belonging? Then join us for the 

Premiere of short 3min films produced during the past week from participants at the Architecture at the Edge Festival film + architecture workshop, 2024. 

Architecture at the Edge and Copenhagen Architecture Festival, CAFx partnered up to organize a film & architecture workshop focusing on creative filmmaking and the relationships between negotiation, conviviality, and the impact of sites on personal experience. This is the result! 

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

During the one-week program led by Sabrina Morreale + Lorenzo Perri, Lemonot studio with Sofie Stilling, from the Royal Danish Academy, we explored Galway’s Public Archipelago (Islands). Participants were introduced to practices of investigative observation, archival research, and new ways of documenting and mapping the city - interrogating issues of land ownership, environmental, ecological and physical qualities of the landscape as well considering the human interactions, the convivial strategies of resistance created by citizens, and applied this knowledge to create their own short films documenting or addressing design solutions found in the built, grown and/or planned environment of Galway city.

Supported by: the Arts Council and Screen Ireland, Skills Development Funding Scheme