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IRISH EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROGRAMME
Curated by Esperanza Collado with Maximilian Le Cain
Since there is no worthwhile commercial cinema in
Ireland, all great Irish films come from experimental cinema.
Maximilian Le Cain in Experimental Conversations.______________________________________________
I N V I S I B I L I T Y :
In 1969 Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of a circular form of reasoning that implied entrapment in circumstances of one’s own design.
Beckett’s Film (1964): the best film you never saw in your life, or, as Gilles Deleuze put it, the greatest Irish film.
Beckett's film can be seen as the tale of George Berkeley who has had enough of being perceived and of perceiving. The role, which could only have been taken by Buster Keaton, is that of Berkeley, or rather it is the passage from one Irishman to another.
The attempt to communicate through silence is no deprivation. All depends on the nature of this silence - not a canceling, static silence, but verbal ‘mutism’. Beckett doesn’t verbalize chaos; he summons it: chaos cannot be depicted but visualized.
I M P O S S I B I L I T I E S :
Inexistence
of Irish cinema industry,
of Irish experimental cinema,
of thematic concerns common to these works,
of Irishness as a main feature present in these works,
of linking threads connecting Irish experimental films,
of formal concerns perceived as common to these works,
of linking thread connecting the works on this programme
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P O S S I B I L I T I E S :
When J. Comerford was born, S. Beckett was 41 y.o.
When V. Dick was born, J. Comerford was 3 y.o.
When F. Daly was born, V. Dick was 11 y.o.
When D. O’Ceilleachair was born, F. Daly was 7 y.o.
When A. Lambert was born, D. O’Ceilleachair was 2 y.o.
When M. Le Cain was born, A. Lambert was 8 y.o.
When D. Foreman and B. Ronan were born,
M. Le Cain was 7 y.o.
