Annecy Animation

Michael Connerty Presents: Contemporary Animation, the Best of Annecy 2010

Saturday 30 October, 1pm IFI

Michael Connerty has picked an unmissable selection from this year’s Annecy festival and thrown in some additional treats. Come and see some incredible films – a number of which picked up awards at the festival – animated music videos, and new work by Max Hattler, Malcolm Sutherland and others. Buy tickets here

London

Saturday 30 October, 2pm IFI

Patrick Keiller

Darklight and the IFI are collaborating to present a special strand that draws attention to the work of experimental filmmaker Patrick Keiller. One of Britain’s most original and innovative directors we’ll screen his films London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997), and Robinson in Ruins (2010). Trained Architect turned filmmaker, Keiller draws on a wide range of influences and disciplines — architecture, history, art, philosophy, poetry — as he uses his fascination with the past to sharpen his portrait of the present.

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David O’Reilly Presents: MIXTAPE OF DOOM, A programme of Early Animation and Animated Rarities

Saturday 30 October, 2:30pm IFI

Welcome back to David O’ Reilly, Irish-born Berlin-based animator and winner of Darklight Audience Award 2008. A collection of logic bending neuro-masochistic short films from the past, present and future. Early animation, modern rarities, lost television shows and other slices of meat from the media’s most surreal and succulent tenderloins programmed by David. Also featuring a special preview of  his latest film The External World. DOR will be present at the screening.

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Separado!

Synth Eastwood Presents: Separado!* (Rhys & Jones, documentary, 2010) includes Q&A sessions with Dylan ‘Goch’ Jones and Gruff Rhys.

Saturday 30 October, 7pm IFI

Join us for this psychedelic western musical in which director Dylan ‘Goch’ Jones follows Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals, Neon Neon) through the theatres, nightclubs and desert teahouses of Wales, Brazil and the Argentine Andes as he discovers what became of his long-lost Patagonian uncle. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Rhys and Jones.

*Oops spelling fail on the program. So sorry for spelling it Seperado! We know better now!

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Ogygia, Part One – A Work in Progress (Tony Kenny, 2010)

Saturday 30 October, 3:30pm Grand Social upstairs

Join Tony Kenny for the first three episodes of his magnum opus, ‘Ogygia’, a contemporary retelling of the heroic odyssey of Malachi St. Jesus Fogarty. Funded in part by the Arts Council, the complete film comprises 18 episodes each about 7 minutes long. There will be a discussion about the work following the screenings.

European Commission in Ireland Finalists and Award Ceremony

Saturday 30 October, 6:30pm Grand Social

Join Darklight, the European Commission in Ireland and Cultivate as we screen finalists of this year’s Viral Video challenge ‘My Environment, My Film’ and announce the 1^st prize winner of the state of the art HD Digital camera.

Both of the above events are free events and admission is on a first-come-first-serve basis.