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BLOOMSDAY FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL
Arena: James Joyce’s Ulysses – Adam Low
6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 PD85
Screening will be followed by a Q&A with Adam Low, director.
Join us for this world premiere screening of a new feature-length documentary from Adam Low (Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens) which unlocks Joyce’s masterpiece in all its surprising, poetic, moving, verbose, sexually explicit and endlessly hilarious glory, from its earliest crossed out manuscript pages to the final iconic edition, bound in the blue of the Greek flag in honour of Homer’s Odyssey. With contributions from Salman Rushdie, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Eimear McBride, Paul Muldoon, John McCourt, Nuala O’Connor and many others.
A DoubleBand/Lone Star Co-production for BBC Arts and BBC Northern Ireland and with the support of Northern Ireland Screen. Screening as part of IFI & Bloomsday Film Festival present: Ulysses 100.
When All is Ruin Once Again – Keith Walsh
13th June, 7pm | €10 | The Sugar Club
8 Leeson Street Lower, Saint Kevin’s, Dublin, D02 ET97
Keith Walsh’s haunting epic ‘When All is Ruin Once Again’ will finish off a day in the Sugar Club celebrating poetry, film, and the birthday of W.B Yeats. The film’s cinematic treatment of Yeats’ ideas on gyres and the cycles of civilization serves as a breathtaking visual poem that will stay with you for days.At the beginning of the Anthropocene – an epoch defined as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on the natural world – a rural community carve out their lives while a motorway ploughs forth through their landscape. It goes no further than the town of Gort in the west of Ireland, halted by the dawn of a financial crisis.
In this poetic documentary from director Keith Walsh who lives in the area where the documentary was made, a myriad of personalities weave an epic tapestry through the bog lands, farms, fire-sides, race tracks and hurling pitches of recession Ireland. “We might all need to be remembered some day” a storyteller by a lake defines the importance of folk tales living on in collective memory long after the death of the protagonist. Also attesting to the impermanence of our existence; whatever we do, say or make during our lives, will eventually be forgotten while nature will reclaim all evidence of our civilisations. W.B. Yeats while living in the same area, understood the futility of our quest to be remembered, when he wrote the lines pleading… “And may these characters remain, when all is ruin once again”.
The Ulysses Project – Laoisa Sexton and Trevor Murphy
6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 PD85
Screening will be followed by Q&A with directors Laoisa Sexton and Trevor Murphy.
A modern, non-traditional re-telling of Ulysses, told rapidly by a succession of over 75 actors who recreate the characters encountered by Leopold Bloom on June 16th, 1904. The film attempts to maintain the rhythm of the novel’s stream of consciousness within the constraints of a pandemic vernacular – shot entirely during the first lockdown, actors were required to film themselves in close-up while being directed via WhatsApp. The resulting compendium of intimate, minutely nuanced performances is, surprisingly, deeply cinematic and as provocative as the book on which it is based. The cast includes John Turturro, Aidan Gillen, Olwen Fouéré, Shane MacGowan, Paula Meehan and Barry Ward. Screening as part of IFI & Bloomsday Film Festival present: Ulysses 100.
Love’s Bitter Mystery – Steve Carey & Carly Wilding
35 N Great George’s St, Rotunda, Dublin, D01 WK44
On the 20th December 1909 James Joyce helped set up one of Ireland’s first Cinemas, the ‘Volta Electric Theatre’ on Mary Street. Over one hundred years later, we are happy to announce the opening of the ‘Volta Room’ in the James Joyce Centre. To celebrate the opening of this new room, ‘Bloomsday in Melbourne’ brings James Joyce’s provocative masterpiece to life with a new immersive film, ‘Love’s Bitter Mystery’. Filmed in the atmospheric post-gold-boom mansion at Villa Alba in Kew, this feature focuses on a critical year (1903-4) in the young author’s life and how he used (and changed) episodes from his own life in his famously controversial novel ‘Ulysses’. The neo-gothic, literary biopic delivers ghosts, violence, romance and music, as well as a tumultuous year in the life of the young Jim Joyce.
Ulysses: Joseph Strick
6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 PD85
The film will be introduced by Joyce enthusiast and filmmaker Luke McManus.
American director Joseph Strick’s Academy Award-nominated response is unquestionably the most faithful screen adaptation of the revered and illustrious novel. The plot follows Jewish advertising agent Leopold Bloom (Milo O’Shea), his libidinous soprano wife, Molly (Barbara Jefford), and young poet and teacher, Stephen Dedalus (Maurice Roeves), on that fateful day. From the early morning opening scene at the Martello Tower in Sandycove to the closing scene in the Bloom residence in Eccles Street at dawn, Strick skims the surface of the day’s events, disregarding the specifics of Dublin of June 16th, 1904 with arresting mid-‘60s anachronisms; vehicular, sartorial and technological. The film’s frank depiction of Joyce’s often ribald novel had it banned in Ireland until the 2000s. Screening as part of IFI & Bloomsday Film Festival present: Ulysses 100.
Short Film Screenings at the James Joyce Centre’s Volta Room
13th – 16th June | €5 | James Joyce Centre
35 N Great George’s St, Rotunda, Dublin, D01 WK44
On the 20th December 1909 James Joyce helped set up one of Ireland’s first Cinemas, the ‘Volta Electric Theatre’ on Mary Street. Over one hundred years later, we are happy to announce the opening of the ‘Volta Room’ in the James Joyce Centre. This year during Bloomsday Festival we’ll be showing six different programmes of short films inspired by poetry, experimental practices and Joycean Dublin.
13th June, Poetry and Literature Shorts
14th June, Experimental Shorts
15th June, Joycean and Dublin Shorts
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