Súitú, a programme of contemporary moving image works by Irish & international artists, toured by aemi and supported by Arts Council of Ireland.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Alice Butler, co-director of aemi

Curated by aemi, Súitú brings together some of the most affecting moving image works by Irish and international artist filmmakers we encountered over the past year.

The programme features films by Fábio Andrade (Brazil), Susan Hughes (Northern Ireland), Morgan Quaintance (UK), Bárbara Lago (Argentina), Sofia Theodore-Pierce (USA), Lisa Freeman (Ireland) and Holly Márie Parnell (Ireland).

Súitú – an Irish language term pronounced Suet-two – is the sucking in-and-out sound of stones on the shoreline at night, often heard in springtime when large waves pull pebbles and then roll them back in. Evoking the elemental, the programme’s pacing picks up not just on the familiar ebb and flow of the sea, but also the rhythmic actions that circumscribe contemporary lived experience. From inner psychological journeys to the phenomenological, the seven films in this programme together offer an emotional, embodied and deeply sensory experience.

Film info, total running time 80 minutes

Fábio Andrade, Contorno/Contour, 2021, Brazil, digital, 10 min
Susan Hughes, Eyes Like Cats, 2022, Northern Ireland, digital, subtitled, 3 min
Morgan Quaintance, A Human Certainty, 2021, United Kingdom, 16mm transferred to digital, 20 min‍

Bárbara Lago, Yon,2021, Argentina, digital, subtitled, 8 min
Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Other Tidal Effects, 2021, USA, 16mm transferred to digital, 7 min
Lisa Freeman, Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out, 2020, Ireland, digital, 3 min
Holly Márie Parnell, Cabbage, 2022, Ireland, digital, 28 min
Running time: 80 min

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Fábio Andrade, Contorno/Contour

“Open the leaves I will see my body turned into flower.”– Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos

Susan Hughes, Eyes Like Cats

After an encounter with bioluminescent phosphorescence, a line of enquiry begins into how humans have made sense of mysterious natural occurrences throughout history.

Morgan Quaintance, A Human Certainty

The inevitability of separation, loss and death are explored through an introspectively written monologue and a selection of stills, moving images and written text.

Bárbara Lago, Yon

Using archive material from their childhood, Bárbara Lago re-programmes their childhood’s mythology and reflects on their body traversed by affections, fictions and the passing of time.

Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Other Tidal Effects

Catamenial seizures, tidal correspondences, a sonic EEG, and a lullaby in partial translation. Highlighting the seams with the darts. An exploration of epileptic rhythms and sensations through moving image practice.

“And there are other tidal effects, mysterious and intangible.” – Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea

Lisa Freeman, Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out

The work touches on things that are inflated: bills, lungs, bellies, airbags, egos.

Holly Márie Parnell, Cabbage

An intimate film made in collaboration with Parnell’s family, Cabbage looks at the complexities of bodily autonomy within an ableist paradigm. Through moments of reflection and observation, the film focuses on her brother’s writings using eye tracking technology, and her mother’s memories, to explore how we shape a sense of self under the pervasive weight of unspoken assumptions, categories and fixed definitions that get placed onto bodies. Dissecting layers of language, agency and power, the film is a subtle examination of how a human life is measured and valued.

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aemi is an Irish organisation funded by The Arts Council that supports and regularly exhibits moving image works by artists and experimental filmmakers. Since its formation in 2016 aemi’s key objective has been to provide support for artists working with the moving image in order to contribute to a developing infrastructure around these practices in Ireland. aemi is dedicated to expanding audiences for this material through regular curated programmes ofIrish and international work and to enrich the critical discourse that surrounds the wide range of activity in this area.

www.aemi.ie info@aemi.ie

This screening is supported by Tipperary County Council’s Festival & EventsScheme and the Arts Council of Ireland.

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