IGVFest Dublin

1. Connolly Luas Station

Eva Marosy-Weide
Sets of Circumstance–Waiting, 2008, 3 min. In the rapid flow of society is it still possible to find one's place? Is it stble or change over time, and if it changes can we still recognize where it was.

Mark Clare
Matrix State, 2006, 4 min. Every Sunday in Hong Kong immigrant workers gather to socialize and create fully functioning micro-communities in the public space they occupy.

Mihai Grecu
Coagulate,2008, 7 min. Countering the laws of nature, the video explores our tenuous relationship to the basic substance of water.

Julie Meyer
Blow Up, 2007, 1 min. The culture of the media primarily focuses on the event, though how are the participants seen through the lens of the ever-present camera.

Ismail Bahri
Reśonances, 2008, 7 min. The Arabic words relating to night are written in the artist's childhood bathtub, reflects on language and the fragility of the universe.

2. Joyce Walk development

Tracy Stunton
Walking the Mall, 2008, 5 min. The artist traces the old Gardiners Mall, which predates the busy, constantly changing Upper O'Connell Street. Searching for the present between the past and the future.

Raguel Friera, Cristina Garrido & Nuria Guell
The City of Spectacle, 2007, 6 min. Bring movie theater seats into public spaces, have a seat and enjoy the show.

Conor McGarrigle
Unreliable Narrations, 2007, 3 min. The first chapter of Joyce's "Ulysses" scrolls past with enough redactions to overt copyright law, raising the question what is part of a shared culture past and what should remain private property.

Kelly O'Connor
Latent, 2009, 3 min. Juxaposing the diversity of shops and the lively bustle on Talbot Street with the new development of Joyce Walk, the video looks at what it takes to create a vibrant urban scene.

3. Department of Education

Olive Barrett & Louise Marlborough
Beat, 2007, 2 min. The regular rythmn from the TV, similar to a heartbeat, permeates our social landscape. With the importance role of this machine today, what would happen if one day we wake up and it wasn't there?

Wrik Mead
Boy2009, 3 min. The artist recounts his childhood and the difficulty of growing up in an closed community that was intolerant to difference. The computer enhanced voice references early technology or Hal from 2001, the sound empty of feeling mimicking his own feelings of alienation.

Wang Aofei
200420, 2005, 7 min 23 sec. The fantastical animated video is the story of different shapes that live in a castle that are continually processed in an assembly line . The fable shows in part how young people can end up choosing a readymade identity.

Katia Meneghini, Valentina Vetturi & Vera Uberti
O Ambulantes, 2007, 8 min 50 sec. The three Italian in Sao Paolo artists borrowed a number of art books and created an mobile library going to a park and opening up the access to art which residing in museums and galleries can be difficult to access and be seen as an elitist occupation.

Michal Brzeziński
Rise, 2 min. The everyday moment of a worker placing flags on a street lamp becomes transformed into a drama steaped in political symbolism.

Veronica Perales & Fred Adam
Simiomobile, 2008, 5 min. This innovative project highlights the unintended ecological effects of communication via mobile, and proposes a unique solution.

Shimrit Golan
Sameiia'ch, 2008, 3 min. This old found footage of eastern european immigrants to Isreal in a moment of festivitityshows a moment of joy in a space of transition, hardship and the unknown.

Zorka Wollny
Dublin International Community Centre, 2009, 15 min. The story tracing the rise and fall of a community centre in Dublin, with a back drop of beautifully haunting images of the overgrown site today.

4. Welcome Inn Pub

Jean-Gabriel Périot
200,000 Phantoms, 2007, 10 min. One architectual structure bears witness to the destruction and growth of Japan.

Romain Sein
The Man from Albacaete, 2007, 5 min. A sureal meeting in the middle of the night discusses the relationship between tennis, art and life.

5. Alleyway – Parnell Place

Antóin Doyle
Urban Amnesia, 2009, 1 min 23 sec. The convincing optical illusions in the urban landscape creates an awareness of the immediate surroundings and what can easily be overlooked.

Jay Koh, Singapore
10, 2009, 10 min. The video shot in two parts separated by 10 years, explores the modes toward building trust and friendship through extreme means on the Great Wall of China or more serene rituals such as sharing a cup of tea.

Sylvia Winkler & Stephan Koeperl
To gaze at the stranger for a long time, 2007, 1 min 30 sec.
A subtle performance involving language to playing with the notion of how we view the "other" while being viewed by them.

Fan Liu
Lamp, 2008, 4 min 50 sec. Focused on Buddhist rituals, the video captures the ephemeral and dissolution of form.

Hui-Ying Tsai
Plastic Bag Girl, 2008, 9 min 49 sec. The performance on the streets of San Fransisco explores our boundaries of personal space and feelings associated with being a foreigner.

6. Parnell Monument

Sean Taylor
100 Paces, 2007, 18 min. Working with a company of the Irish Defense Forces, the artist conceived a performance in Collins Barracks tracing the past and contemporary history of the Forces.

Tim Portlock
Ghost of the Walls, 2008, 4 min 30 sec. Tracing the contemporary influences on African-American culture, the artists explores different manifestations of oppression and modes of resistance.

Áine Ni Fhaoláin
The Day I Saw You, 2008, 9 min. A beautiful snapshot of the course of a day capturing both the intimate and public aspects of contemporary Dublin.

7. Rathmines Avenue Apartments

Sarah Evans
Bucharest: A Portrait, 2008, 11 min 30 sec. A contemporary portrait of Bucharest through the younger crossover generation that spanned the fall of communism.

Winstan Whitter
The Four Aces Club (Trailer), 2008, 5 min 56sec. The chronicle of a community's fight to save a historic building in East London with an unusual past.

Sergio Cruz
Exotica, 2009, 4 min 11 sec. Set in Mozambique, a mixture of urban choreography and traditional drumming explore the new avenues of expression.

Jamie Quinto
manifesto #, 10 minutes. A community exists on many different levels: everyday life, imagined, and the future possibility.
A young filmmakers sets out to see this in action.

Antóin Doyle
Urban Amnesia, 2009, 1 min 23 sec. The convincing optical illusions in the urban landscape creates an awareness of the immediate surroundings and what can easily be overlooked.

8. Rathmines Square site

Stefan Riebel
Untitled / #25, 2007, 30 sec. The purpose of the building where this video is being projected has been the site of much community debate, what do you imagine there?

Patrick Corcoran
Balance, 2008, 2 min 40 sec. The handdrawn animation addresses the impact of large scale development on the existing social fabric.

Tatjana de Luxe
Nine Deaths, 5 min. A poetic ballet on the fragility of life and our basic struggle to survive.

Naill O'Connor
Tramp, 2009, 5 min. Shot in Rathmines, the story of a man in hard times wandering throw the fragments of memory in his old neighborhood.

Sinéad Mc Cann & Naomi Sex
Good Buy, 2009, 1 min 5 sec. A playful mixture of the Beatles, the building boom, and consumerism.

Mehrdad Sheikhan
Solitude, 2008, 10 min. Computer animation from Iran of the story of a golem on a deserted plain.

Fletcher Boote
Shadows of a Fence, 2009, 3 min.

Maarit Murka
Black Humor, 2008, 43 sec.

9. Converted Factory

Marike Schuurman
Shifting, 2008, 40 sec.

WAZA
Where is Who?, 2008, 4 min 40 sec.

Roch Forowicz
Interception 2, 2008, 11 min 25 sec.

Alessandra Arnò
Save our souls, 2008, 3 min.

Áine Ni Fhaoláin
The Day I saw You, 2008, 9 min.

10. After Party

El Plan
10m/s2, 2004, 30 min.

Anan Tzuckerman
Anxious Escapism, 2005, 28 min 40sec.

Sandra Isacsson
And She Gave Away the Secrets of Her Past And Laughed I've Lost Control Again, 2008, 19 min.