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We at aemi are thrilled to announce the full programme for DISSOLUTIONS '25.
DISSOLUTIONS ’25 is the second edition of aemi’s experimental film festival taking place at The Complex from Friday September 26th to Sunday September 28th. The festival will feature screenings, workshops, and discussions showcasing the best of Irish and international artist film practice. Tickets are available either for a single day or for the entire weekend.
Over three days aemi will screen work by over thirty-five remarkable filmmakers, showcasing both Irish and international, contemporary and historical works. DISSOLUTIONS 25 also features several key collaborators, including guest curators Alice Quinn Banville, Clodagh Assata Boyce, Diaa Lagan and Oona Mosna of Media City Film Festival.
We will officially open the festival with the Irish premiere of 'A Fidai Film', an intrepid work of experimental cinema from Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari that investigates the looting of Palestinian films which took place in Beirut in 1982. aemi is honoured to be joined by Deputy Head of Mission, Baker Hajizi from the Irish Palestinian Embassy for this event.
Our opening screening will be preceded by a panel discussion organised in collaboration with Paper Visual Art to mark the recent publication of ‘In the good seats’, their collection of essays on film as an art form and the persisting allure of the cinema space. The opening night of the festival will conclude with ‘Against Stasis’, a two part screening of works from aemi’s first group of Tier 2 artists, Michael Barwise, Chloe Brenan, Rik Higashikawa, Colm Higgins, Jack Hogan, Ann Upton, Luke van Gelderen and Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz.
Our international artist in focus for the festival is the Palestinian filmmaker Basma al-Sharif. Basma will present a solo screening of her work curated by Dublin-based artist Diaa Lagan on Saturday September 27th at 18.30. She will also lead a practice-based workshop on Sunday September 28th at 12pm.
Saturday will also feature a programme of fanvid DIY film club works called ‘Making Do’ curated by Alice Quinn Banville and a late night screening of six works by Peter Tscherkassky, Mary Helena Clark and Paul Sharits in ‘Peter, Paul and Mary’.
We also have an international festival focus this year with ‘Our Tongues in Exile’, a programme curated by Oona Mosna, Artistic Director of Media City Film Festival, reflecting on key works from the festival’s history by artists including Mati Diop, Rosalind Nashashibi and Ja’Tovia Gary. We will be joined by Jeremy Rigsby, a programmer at Media City who will be giving a talk for filmmakers on Saturday September 28th about the changing shape of international festivals and how this affects film artists.
The third and last day of the festival will feature a rare screening of Shari Frilot’s 'Black Nations/Queer Nations?' (1995) selected by Clodagh Assata Boyce who will lead a discussion after the film with Dr John Wilkins on the 1995 conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora at the heart of Frilot’s film.
Sunday also features a programme of Irish premieres of works on ideas of pattern and mirroring by Sarah Ballard, Callum Hill, Maeve Brennan and Jesse Jones.
Our closing event is a very special screening of Thaddeus O’Sullivan‘s impressionistic survey of the Irish immigrant experience 'On a Paving Stone Mounted' (1978), featuring contributions from the likes of Stephen Rea, Gabriel Byrne, Mannix Flynn, and Christy Moore. We are delighted to be joined by director Thaddeus O’Sullivan for a discussion about the film led by Ruairí McCann following the screening.
We really hope you can join us and look forward to seeing you there.
All of our best wishes,
Alice, Daniel, Anne
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