Darklight Festival are working with our friends MoFoHoBo to find Ireland’s next great club visual’s whizz. Dubstep music promoters Mofo Hobo are celebrating their second birthday on Friday 22 June in the Twisted Pepper & launching their brand new clubnight ‘GUT VIBRATIONS’ at ‘MUD’. Darklight & MoFoHoBo are holding a competition for VJs for the [...]

Spirit of Darklight Abel Kavanagh & Amaru Durand Mitre - Laberinto Verde A gift from the Pacha Mama, the coca leaf has sparked more debate at this time of important geopolitical shifts in South America. We set out to look at this plant from a new perspective, hoping to decry the established link between the sacred [...]

We really excited about our programme of travel guide films that Vice have curated for us from their body of work. Through-out the festival, in the Salon we’ll be screening THE VICE GUIDE TO CONGO & THE REBELS OF LIBYA, THE VICE GUIDE TO BELFAST. So grab a coffee from the Roasted Brown Coffee stand, [...]

SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER 12:00 Where The Sea Used To Be, Screening Room 1 with short film Whoever Whatever (Daniel McKernan) Two brothers meet up for the obligatory Christmas Eve pint and find themselves spending that day together. They don’t discuss the big issues. The mysteries of the universe are not uncovered. No great wounds are healed nor [...]

FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 14.00 Living in Emergency, Screening Room 1 with short film Devolution/Reckoning (Gavin Heffernan) “Living in Emergency,” Mark Hopkins’ docu about humanitarian health organization Doctors Without Borders, concerns itself less with the NGO’s salutary effect on communities than with the tremendous toll on the borderless MDs, who must address constant suffering with inadequate facilities. [...]