Date:  July 22nd – August 13th

An exhibition comprising 10 large photo montages, a video work and installation by Ukranianborn artist Sergei Sviatchenko, inspired by the 1975 ground-breaking fi lm Mirror by renowned Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky.

HISTORY AND MEMORY IN TARKOVSKY’S MIRROR with Dr. Marina Levitina | Friday July 29 8pm | WCAC

Dr. Marina Levitina will present a talk on representation of history and memory in Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror’. Marina teaches Soviet Cinema at Trinity College Dublin and at NUI (Galway).

Time:  10am – 5pm/6pm (Details Below)

Date:  July 23rd – 30th

FIERCE CREATURES PET SHOP | TOWNSHEND STREET, SKIBBEREEN | 10AM-6PM

CASTLELANDS/HOURIHANE VETERINARY CLINIC, SKIBBEREEN | 10AM-5PM

Maria Kerin.

Nervous around Horses by trans-disciplinary artist Maria Kerin outlines the process of learning to horse ride and getting over the fear of being nervous around horses.

Time:  11am- 5pm

Date:  July 25th – 30th

Mary Wycherley

Using fixed camera perspective, Nebula is a short dance fi lm by Mary Wycherley studying the articulation of movement through a single hand.

Time:  11am- 5pm

Date:  July 25th – 30th

Mary Wycherley & Mary Nunan.

HaH is an adaptation of a live performance for film, produced by Mary Wycherley and Mary Nunan. It reflects concepts of the live performance; audience/performer relationship, space and sensation.

Time:  6pm

Date:  Friday 29th July

Ticket Price: Free of charge

Guillaume Beauron will present an electroacoustic improvisation based on reel to reel manipulations of singing bowls, objects amplified, electronics, prepared guitar and soundscapes… Embark on a sonic and mental journey, close your eyes and immerse yourself between abstract electronica and fragments of voices. Cinema for the ears.

Time:  11am- 5pm

Date:  July 23rd – 30th

Tory North Side | 40 mins
This is a slow sound piece, a l’écoute (listening) to the natural elements. Guillaume Beauron returned to Tory Island to record sounds of wild animals living on the North side of the island and to try and capture the way the typography of the cliffs, rocks and caves reflects itself through sounds, phenomenes, echoes and reverbs.

Jungle Heroes | 24 mins
A slow motion sound piece based on sounds recorded in Laos in 2009.

Time:  11am- 5pm

Date:  July 23rd – 30th

Julius Ziz was born in Lithuania in 1970. He studied fi lm at the Tbilisi Film Academy Georgia from 1988 to 1992. He has works in the International Collections; Museum of Modern Art, New York / ‘My Motherland’, Anthology Film Archives/ Cinemateque Francaise, Paris / The Oesterreichiscies Film Museum, Vienna /Marcel Duchamp Estate, France. He now lives in County Clare, Ireland, and works internationally.

The Window
Shot in Lithuania The Window is a portrait of the artist’s grandmother. “The Window is like melancholic poem, both crystalline and ambigous, about serenity and passage.”
- Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator of Film, MOMA, New York.

And Pig was Born
“A tour-de-force montage fi lm with the spirit of Vigo and Bunuel hovering
over it.” Jonas Mekas

The Wolf
Shot in bright sun and light-dappled forest The The Wolf speaks of horror of mankind in the ravishing face of nature…

Time:  12- 2pm

Date:  Saturday 23rd July

Ticket Price: Free of charge

The Quiet Club are Mick O’Shea and Danny McCarthy. Formed in 2006, they have become recognised as one of Ireland’s leading sound art improvisation groups. They frequently play together with guests, which in the past have included Rhodri Davies, Stephen Vitiello, Mark Wastell, Viv Corringham, John Godfrey, Harry Moore, Iarla Ó Lionáird, David Toop, and many others.

Their first CD Tesla was released on Farpoint Recordings (www.farpointrecording.com) in 2009 and a new release is planned for 2011. Most recently a track of their’s appeared on ‘WIRETAPPER 23’ the compilation that accompanies ‘WIRE’ magazine. A major exhibition ‘Strange Attractor’ featuring their work took place in the Crawford Gallery Cork in April 2011.

“The brilliance of the Quiet Club, the Cork-based ‘entity’ of Danny McCarthy and Mick O’Shea, is best apprehended live. Their CD, Tesla, is fascinating and enjoyable, but all the more so after watching their performance at the Goethe Institute in Dublin”

Seán Ó Máille, Journal of Music Vol. 1 No. 2 – June/July 2009

Time:  10pm

Date:  Monday 25th July

Ticket Price: €8

The Pier Directed by Gerard Hurley | 83 mins | Black Equus Films

The beautiful and atmospheric Abbeystrewry Church grounds will again this year play host to our outdoor screening.

This year the Outdoor Screening will have a special local resonance when Skibbereen native Gerard Hurley will present his new film ‘The Pier’. Fresh from its premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh this new Irish feature was shot around Schull and Goleen last Summer.

The film focuses on Jack McCarthy who left Ireland for America 20 years ago. His business had failed and he had to get out in a hurry. Now he is called home by his father Larry, who says he’s dying.

Finding his father fit enough to hit golf balls in a field of cattle, Jack is furious, but decides to stay in Cork. He meets an American tourist, Grace, who is quick to tell him she’s just out of a divorce and not ready for a another relationship. Jack tries to call in debts from local people who owe his father money, but their time together becomes more and more unbearable until Larry is finally honest with his son.

Outdoor Screening

The screening will be introduced by the film’s composer Maurice Seezer. He has also contributed to the original soundtracks of numerous other films, such as Disco Pigs, Short Cuts, The Boxer, Moulin Rouge and In America.

Time:  8pm

Date: Monday 25th July

Ticket Price: €12/15

Set in Anytown, Ireland, the play tells the story of 43-year old Rhonda Russell. One day, her husband rings to say he is leaving her, after almost 20 years of marriage. In the events that unfold in the quiet suburban neighbourhood, some comic, some tragic, friends and strangers are drawn together, and relationships are torn apart. In this Irish premiere, Robert Hewett’s play provides eye-opening insights into a world where relationships are not always what they seem.