ARTISTS’ FILM INTERNATIONAL SCREENING PROGRAMME at CRAWFORD ART GALLERY in Partnership with CORK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Friday 10 November – Sunday 19 November

Michelle Deignan, Looking for Gary (2018) 07:20 minutes Selected by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (IRE)

Event: 17:30 Friday 17 November 2023
Lecture Theatre, Crawford Art Gallery

International artists and film makers Jasmina Cibic and Michelle Deignan in conversation discussing artists’ film and their individual practices and processes in film making.

Artists’ Film International (AFI) is a collaborative project featuring film, video and animation from around the world. Established by Whitechapel Gallery (London) in 2008, AFI includes 18 global partner organisations. Each organisation selects an exciting recent work by an artist from their region which is shared amongst the network. Throughout 2023 the AFI partners have selected moving-image works by artists on the theme of Diaspora with this year Michelle Deignan’s short film Looking for Gary (2018) has been selected by Crawford Art Gallery.  

Michelle Deignan (first heard of Islington in London, when sitting her living room one night in 1980 in Ireland, as British New Romantics ‘Spandau Ballet’ were introduced on BBC’s ‘Top of the Pops’, as 'five young guys from Islington who are causing a real buzz in the music industry'.

Ever since, she meshed Islington New Romanticism and Spandau Ballet into one memory. Thirty-eight years later and living nearby, Deignan takes a film crew to Essex Road in Islington, the busy throughfare that Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet's songwriter grew up on. Together they search for a post New Romantic Gary to replace the old one.

Michelle Deignan is an artist and filmmaker based in London. She makes moving image, photographic and print works, for exhibition and screening contexts. These works critically examine the production and dissemination of culture now and historically.  Recent exhibitions include: True North, Galería Fermay, Palma de Mallorca, ES (2023); BIENALSUR, Montevideo, UY and Córdoba, AR (2022); Halvad Ideed (Bad Ideas) Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallinn, EE (2022);  Rencontres Internationale Paris/Berlin, Louvre Museum FR (2021). Michelle is a contributor to The Crown Letter, a self-organised international women’s art project, publishing weekly responses by artists to the here, then and now. www.crownproject.art 

Screening Times: Friday 10 November – Sunday 19 November in the Lecture Theatre
Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 17:00, Thursday until 20:00, Sundays and Bank Holidays 11:00 – 16:00

Crawford Art Gallery
Emmett Place
Cork T12 TNE6
crawfordartgallery.ie

Friday 10 November & Wednesday 15 November

Jesse Chun
O dust (2022-23)
7:06 minutes
Selected by Ballroom Martha, Texas (USA)

Dejan Kaludjerović
House-They-Europe, three songs from the opera performance I Don’t Know That Word ...Yet, (2022-23)
20:22 minutes
Selected by Cultural Centre of Belgrade (SRB)

Saturday 11 November & Thursday 16 November

Ottonella Mocellin, Nicola Pellegrini
Alphabet. The space between us and the unknown. (2021)
29.46 minutes
Selected by GAMeC / Galleria d’Arte Modern, Bergamo (ITA)

Sashko Protyah
My Favourite Job (2022)
32:18 minutes
Selected by Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, (POL)

Sunday 12 November & Friday 17 November

Michelle Deignan
Looking for Gary (2018)
07:20 minutes
Selected by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (IRE)

Liv Schulman
A somatic play (Daunoras) (2019)
32:14 minutes
Selected by Fundacion PRÓA, Buenos Aires (ARG)

Monday 13 November & Saturday 18 November

Mochu
GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE (2022)
26:00 minutes
Selected by Project88, Mumbai (IND)

Damir Avdagić
Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021 (Passages between 1980-2021) (2021)
32:41 minutes
Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø (NOR)

Tuesday 14 November & Sunday 19 November

Adnan Softić and Nina Softić
Ships with goods and materials from all over the world bump the Bibby Challenge with their waves (2020)
12:25 minutes
Selected by Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin (GER)

R.I.P. Germain
Everything’s For Sale & Everyone’s Welcome To Buy (2023)
Duration: 26 minutes 27 seconds
Commissioned by FormaHQ, London for Whitechapel Gallery, London (GBR)