‘Spirit Messages’ is aemi’s 2024 touring programme, an annual selection made to bring together some of the most exciting new moving image work by Irish and international artists. On Wednesday, October 9th starting 7 PM the programme will be screened at Filmform in Stockholm with the guest curator from aemi – Alice Butler as well as the artists Niall Cullen and Amanda Rice present.

CURATORIAL NOTE:

Alongside a variety of other concerns, the artists featured in this programme employ a diverse set of creative strategies to reveal an interconnected world, one in which the medium is not just the message but the means through which the paranormal can engage our attention. From folk tales to esotericism, poppers training videos, horror flicks and sci-fi, the films in ‘Spirit Messages’ draw from an eclectic array of sources to suggest that the idiosyncratic forms of communication we adopt are often choices that are as subversive as they are functional. ‘Spirit Messages’ made its world premiere at Cork International Film Festival in November 2023 and will travel to a number of venues and festivals in both Ireland and abroad, throughout 2024. Curated by aemi and featuring work by Amanda Rice, Niall Cullen and Ross McClean alongside works by artists Jamie Crewe, Luis Arnias, and Dan Guthrie.

aemi is an Irish organisation funded by The Arts Council that supports and regularly exhibits moving image works by artists and experimental filmmakers.Since its formation in 2016 aemi’s key objective has been to provide support for artists working with the moving image in order to contribute to a developing infrastructure around these practices in Ireland. aemi is dedicated to expanding audiences for this material through regular curated programmes of Irish and international work and to enrich the critical discourse that surrounds the wide range of activity in this area.
Spirit Messages is accompanied by a newly commissioned text by Leah Reynolds. Leah Reynolds is a writer and bookseller based in Bristol, UK. Read the text HERE: https://aemi.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Moth-in-Relay-by-Leah-Reynolds-2024.pdf

Programme:

Ross McClean, Echo,2023, Ireland/United Kingdom, 16m/digital, 12 mins
Amanda Rice, The Flesh of Language, 2023, Ireland, 16.5 mins
Niall Cullen, The Dog Who Became a Frog, 2023, Ireland, digital, 6.5 mins
Jamie Crewe, False Wife, 2022, United Kingdom, digital, 15 mins
Luis Arnías, Terror Has No Shape, 2021, Venezuela / United States, 16mm/digital, 10 mins
Dan Guthrie, Coaley Peak (A Fragment), 2021, United Kingdom, 16mm/digital, 6.5 mins

Running time: 66 minutes (plus intermission)

PLEASE NOTE:

The ticket price is 50 SEK. RSVP to info@filmform.com in order to book a ticket. After booking you will receive information about the different payment options and confirmation. First come, first served. Limited amount of seats.

Gunvor Nelson’s TAKE OFF will be part of the exhibition NON-STEREO TIPS, curated by Amanda Cuesta, between October 10th and November 24th during Festival Panoràmic in Barcelona, Spain.

Festival Panoràmic proposes a space of knowledge and reflection between the still image and the moving image. And it does so by deploying all the areas where the image is present to us, that is, through screenings of feature films and short films, video, video installations, video games, mappings, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, workshops, TV, installations facilities, archives, bibliography, photo books or interactive projects among others.

The 2024 edition of the Panoràmic festival focuses on works by artists who make a critical review of recent history and, at the same time, reflect on the current geopolitical, economic, and social situation, marked by polarization and its consequences. We point out the situation of the elderly, the gender issue, job insecurity, displacements, the consequences of natural disasters and economic policies, territorial limits, the power of money, the revision of history, the projection of new scenarios, or historical dislocations, to mention some.

Programme:

Work distributed by Filmform:

Gunvor Nelson, TAKE OFF, 1972, 10 min

On October 10th, Berättelsemaskinen by Alexander Rynéus will be shown during Köttinspektionen Filmkväll, in Uppsala. Thanks to Alba Folgado, who curated this program.

Programme:

Work distributed by Filmform:

Alexander Rynéus, Berättelsemaskinen, 2023, 58 min

In the exhibition I like maps, because they lie, Marika Reuterswärd presents a number of video artworks that in different ways explore geographical concepts in relation to the individual, society and politics in a changing time. The exhibition takes place at Kristianstads konsthall from Oktober 12 to Mars 2nd 2025. Using the map as a starting point, the artists ask questions such as: how have explorers and historical mapmakers influenced our time? How are boundaries on a map visible in our everyday lives? Or, can we trust the geographical landscapes we encounter in media and film? Video art is combined with an exploration of the history of maps as objects with visual content and narrative.

Lisa Torell Det som sågs, kunde ses, 2018

The exhibition features the following titles, distributed by Filmform:

– Lova Hamilton “A Certain Awakening”, 1999

– Unni Gjertsen “From Here to The Black Sea”, 2020

– John Skoog, “Shadowland”, 2014

– Lisa Torell “Det som sågs, kunde ses”, 2018

– Runo Lagomarsino, “More Delicate Than the Historians Are the Map-Maker’s Colours”, 2012

– Hillside Projects, “Searching for the European Roller”, 2017

– Salad Hilowle, “Venus Labor”, 2021

Eli Skatvedt will present her program featuring Unni Gjertsen’s More Bacteria Than I at SmakÅs 2024. The film will be screened twice, at 10:30 and 11:30 on October 13th at Vitenparken campus (Vitenteateret) in Ås, Norway.

Programme:

Work distributed by Filmform:

Unni Gjertsen, More Bacteria Than I, 2021, 28:41 min

This fall the Eyefilmmuseum in Amsterdam hosts the exhibition “Underground – American Avant-Garde Film in the 1960s”. It will gather iconic works from the american underground moving image movement, among which Gunvor Nelson’s My Name is Oona and Take-off. It will be the occasion to explore the boundaries of film and art as it was reflected upon in the american 1960s, and to (re)discover key experimental masterpieces.

Programme:
Works distributed by Filmform

1

MY NAME IS OONA

Gunvor Nelson

1969, 00:10:00

2

TAKE OFF

Gunvor Nelson

1972, 00:10:00

How to Civilize a Waterfall by Hanna Ljungh will be looped at Felleshus der Nordischen Botschaften in Berlin, between the 21th october and the 1st december 2024 at the TBC – Nordic anniversary exhibition. Curated by Nina Katarina Karlsson.

How to Civilize a Waterfall

Hanna Ljungh

2010, 00:03:53

Moms on fire, a claymation by Joanna Rytel will be screened at Uppsala Kortfilmfestival, outside of the official competition. For its 43rd edition, the festival will have a special focus on Animated Award Winners and Audience Favourites from throughout the festival history, as well as a guest appearance from REX Animation Film Festival in Stockholm, celebrating its 10th anniversary during Uppsala Short Film Festival.

Joanna Rytel, Moms on fire, 2016, 12 min

Moms on fire, a claymation by Joanna Rytel will be screened at Nordic Animation Pitch, on October 30th in Helsinki, Finland.

Nordic Animation Pitch is the first Northern European pitching event for independent animation. The first edition of this event was organised by Finnish Animation Guild for Scandinavian countires in May 2023 in Helsinki, Finland. The second edition will be held in the fall of 2024 in Helsinki with addition of Baltic countires to this event.
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The aim of this event is to bring together new talents of Nordic animation and to develop their ideas for production of a short animation. The projects will be developed by mentoring to improve the presentation to a professional pitch for international industry events to attract funders and distributors. The mentoring and coaching will be provided by internationally acclaimed animation professionals.

Joanna Rytel, Moms on fire, 2016, 12 min

Jonelle Twum’s I THINK OF SILENCES WHEN I THINK OF YOU will be part of a screening program, curated by Astria Suparak, at Carnegie Museum of Art, in Pittsburgh, USA, that examines the concept of the archive through a selection of films that utilize archival material as part of their process and question the inherent authority these institutions hold. The film will be shown on Saturday, November 30, at 2 p.m.

Programme:

Work distributed by Filmform:

I THINK OF SILENCES WHEN I THINK OF YOU, Jonelle Twum, 2023, 9 min